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Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio

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SEASONS SERIES TRUST

Supplement to the Prospectus dated July 29, 2013,

as supplemented to date

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Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio

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In the Portfolio Summary, the Principal Investment Strategies of the Portfolio is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

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The Portfolio attempts to achieve its investment goal by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities, including U.S. and foreign government securities, asset- and mortgage-backed securities, investment-grade debt securities, and lower-rated fixed income securities, or junk bonds (up to 20% of net assets).

The Portfolio may invest in foreign securities (up to 30% of net assets) and in short-term investments (up to 20% of net assets).

The Portfolio’s assets are not divided equally among the subadvisers. Approximately 50% of the Portfolio’s assets will be allocated to one subadviser, which will passively manage a portion of the assets allocated to it by seeking to track an index or a subset of an index. The remainder of the Portfolio’s assets will be allocated to the other subadviser. The Portfolio’s target allocations among the subadvisers are subject to change.