<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<!--XBRL document created with Bowne Tagger. XBRL Parser version 10.0.0.114-->
<!--Based on XBRL 2.1-->
<!--Created on: 5/24/2012 1:59:03 PM-->
<xbrl xmlns="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance" xmlns:link="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/linkbase" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xbrldi="http://xbrl.org/2006/xbrldi" xmlns:dei="http://xbrl.us/dei/2009-01-31" xmlns:ff="http://forwardinvesting.com/20120522" xmlns:rr="http://xbrl.sec.gov/rr/2010-02-28" xmlns:xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance">
  <link:schemaRef xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="ff-20120522.xsd" />
  <!--Context Section-->
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:PerformanceMeasureAxis">ff:SAndPFiveHundredIndexMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_Strategic_Alternatives_Blended_Index_Fifty_Percent_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_By_Fifty_Percent_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:PerformanceMeasureAxis">ff:StrategicAlternativesBlendedIndexFiftyPercentBarclaysCapitalUsAggregateBondIndexByFiftyPercentSAndPFiveHundredIndexMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:PerformanceMeasureAxis">ff:BarclaysCapitalUsAggregateBondIndexMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_And_Sales_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:PerformanceMeasureAxis">rr:AfterTaxesOnDistributionsAndSalesMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:ProspectusShareClassAxis">ff:C000078423Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:PerformanceMeasureAxis">rr:AfterTaxesOnDistributionsMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:ProspectusShareClassAxis">ff:C000078423Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="rr:ProspectusShareClassAxis">ff:C000078423Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
      <segment>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:LegalEntityAxis">ff:S000023196Member</xbrldi:explicitMember>
        <xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="dei:DocumentInformationDocumentAxis">ff:ProspectusOneMember</xbrldi:explicitMember>
      </segment>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <context id="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">
    <entity>
      <identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000889188</identifier>
    </entity>
    <period>
      <startDate>2011-05-02</startDate>
      <endDate>2012-05-01</endDate>
    </period>
  </context>
  <!--Unit Section-->
  <unit id="Pure">
    <measure>xbrli:pure</measure>
  </unit>
  <!--Tuple Section-->
  <!--Element Section-->
  <dei:AmendmentFlag contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">false</dei:AmendmentFlag>
  <dei:DocumentCreationDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">2012-05-22</dei:DocumentCreationDate>
  <dei:DocumentEffectiveDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">2012-05-22</dei:DocumentEffectiveDate>
  <dei:DocumentPeriodEndDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">2011-12-31</dei:DocumentPeriodEndDate>
  <dei:DocumentType contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">Other</dei:DocumentType>
  <dei:EntityCentralIndexKey contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">0000889188</dei:EntityCentralIndexKey>
  <dei:EntityRegistrantName contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">Forward Funds</dei:EntityRegistrantName>
  <ff:SupplementTextBlock contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="5"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FORWARD FUNDS &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div  style="border-bottom: #000000 0.5pt solid; line-height: 4px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:  0px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Forward  Strategic Alternatives Fund &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Supplement dated May 22, 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;to the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Forward Funds Class Z  Prospectus &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"  align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;dated May 1, 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The following information applies to  the Forward Strategic Alternatives Fund (the &amp;#8220;Fund&amp;#8221;) only: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;Effective immediately, the &amp;#8220;Average Annual Total Returns&amp;#8221; table for the Fund on page 25 of the Forward Funds Class Z Prospectus shall be replaced to  read as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0px 4%"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Annual Total Returns &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="92%" align="center"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width="84%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style ="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For the period ended December&amp;nbsp;31, 2011&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1&amp;nbsp;Year&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since&lt;br /&gt;Inception&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Forward Strategic Alternatives Fund &amp;#8211; Class Z  (Inception: 5/1/09)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left:  0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return Before Taxes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;1.88&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;5.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr  bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return  After Taxes on Distributions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px  solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;2.05&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;4.67&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.6em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund  Shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"  align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;1.22&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;4.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Strategic Alternatives Blended Index &lt;i&gt;(50% Barclays  Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index/50% S&amp;amp;P 500 Index)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;5.28&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;11.83&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Barclays Capital U.S.  Aggregate Bond Index&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px  solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;7.84&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;7.38&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500 Index&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;2.11&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"  align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;15.64&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div  style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PLEASE KEEP THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</ff:SupplementTextBlock>
  <ff:SupplementTextBlock contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member">&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="5"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FORWARD FUNDS &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div  style="border-bottom: #000000 0.5pt solid; line-height: 4px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:  0px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Forward  Strategic Alternatives Fund &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Supplement dated May 22, 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;to the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Forward Funds Class Z  Prospectus &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"  align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;dated May 1, 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The following information applies to  the Forward Strategic Alternatives Fund (the &amp;#8220;Fund&amp;#8221;) only: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;Effective immediately, the &amp;#8220;Average Annual Total Returns&amp;#8221; table for the Fund on page 25 of the Forward Funds Class Z Prospectus shall be replaced to  read as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: -6px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0px 4%"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Annual Total Returns &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="92%" align="center"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width="84%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom" width="5%"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px;  margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font style ="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For the period ended December&amp;nbsp;31, 2011&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1&amp;nbsp;Year&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since&lt;br /&gt;Inception&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Forward Strategic Alternatives Fund &amp;#8211; Class Z  (Inception: 5/1/09)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left:  0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return Before Taxes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;1.88&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;5.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr  bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return  After Taxes on Distributions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px  solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;2.05&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;4.67&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.6em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund  Shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000  1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"  align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;1.22&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;4.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Strategic Alternatives Blended Index &lt;i&gt;(50% Barclays  Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index/50% S&amp;amp;P 500 Index)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;5.28&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;11.83&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;Barclays Capital U.S.  Aggregate Bond Index&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px  solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;7.84&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;7.38&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 0.5em"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500 Index&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td  style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid"  valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;2.11&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial"  size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom:  #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"  align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;15.64&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font  style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;%&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div  style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="center"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PLEASE KEEP THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</ff:SupplementTextBlock>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">2009-05-01</rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">2009-05-01</rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_And_Sales_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member">2009-05-01</rr:AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0512</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0738</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_Strategic_Alternatives_Blended_Index_Fifty_Percent_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_By_Fifty_Percent_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.1183</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.1564</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0467</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_And_Sales_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0412</rr:AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0784</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_Strategic_Alternatives_Blended_Index_Fifty_Percent_Barclays_Capital_Us_Aggregate_Bond_Index_By_Fifty_Percent_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0528</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S_And_P_Five_Hundred_Index_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">0.0211</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">-0.0188</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">-0.0205</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01 contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_After_Taxes_On_Distributions_And_Sales_Member_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member_C000078423_Member" unitRef="Pure" decimals="4">-0.0122</rr:AverageAnnualReturnYear01>
  <rr:PerformanceTableHeading contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012_S000023196_Member_Prospectus_One_Member">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Annual Total Returns&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;For the period ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</rr:PerformanceTableHeading>
  <rr:ProspectusDate contextRef="TwelveMonthsEnded_1May2012">2012-05-01</rr:ProspectusDate>
  <!--Footnote Section-->
</xbrl>
