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SA Multi-Managed Mid Cap Value Portfolio
SA Multi-Managed Mid Cap Value Portfolio
Investment Goal
The Portfolio’s investment goal is long-term growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The Portfolio’s annual operating expenses do not reflect the separate account fees charged in the variable annuity or variable life insurance policy (“Variable Contracts”) in which the Portfolio is offered. If separate account fees were shown, the Portfolio’s annual operating expenses would be higher. Please see your Variable Contract prospectus for more details on the separate account fees.
Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - SA Multi-Managed Mid Cap Value Portfolio
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Management Fees 0.85% 0.85% 0.85%
Service (12b-1) Fees none 0.15% 0.25%
Other Expenses 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses [1] 0.97% 1.12% 1.22%
[1] The Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses for the Portfolio do not correlate to the ratio of net expenses to average net assets provided in the Financial Highlights table of the annual report, which reflects the net operating expenses of the Portfolio and does not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses. "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses" include fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the Portfolio as a result of investments in shares of one or more mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds or other pooled investment vehicles.
Expense Example
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses  remain the same. The Example does not reflect charges imposed by the Variable Contract. If the Variable Contract fees were reflected, the expenses would be higher. See the Variable Contract prospectus for information on such charges. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions and the net expenses shown in the fee table, your costs would be:
Expense Example - SA Multi-Managed Mid Cap Value Portfolio - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class 1 99 309 536 1,190
Class 2 114 356 617 1,363
Class 3 124 387 670 1,477
Portfolio Turnover
The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance.

During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 36% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies of the Portfolio
The Portfolio attempts to achieve its investment goal by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of net assets in equity securities of medium-capitalization companies selected through a value strategy. Medium-capitalization, or mid-cap, companies will generally include companies whose market capitalizations range from the market capitalization of the smallest company included in the Russell Midcap® Index to the market capitalization of the largest company in the Russell Midcap® Index during the most recent 12-month period. As of May 31, 2020, the market capitalization range of the companies in the Russell Midcap® Index was between approximately $127.1 million and $72.5 billion.

The Portfolio may also invest in equity securities of large- and small-capitalization companies, short-term investments (up to 20%), foreign securities (up to 30%), real estate investment trusts and special situations. A special situation arises when, in the opinion of a subadviser, the securities of a particular issuer will be recognized and appreciate in value due to a specific development with respect to that issuer, such as a new product or process, a technological breakthrough, or a management change or other extraordinary corporate event.

The Portfolio is actively managed by two subadvisers. To balance the risks of the Portfolio, a portion of the Portfolio is passively managed by SunAmerica Asset Management, LLC (“SunAmerica”) which invests in all or substantially all of the stocks included in the Russell Midcap® Value Index (the “Index”), a strategy known as “replication.” SunAmerica may, however, utilize an “optimization” strategy in circumstances in which replication is difficult or impossible, such as if the Portfolio has low asset levels and cannot replicate, to reduce trading costs or to gain exposure to securities that the Portfolio cannot access directly. The goal of optimization is to select stocks which ensure that characteristics such as industry weightings, average market capitalizations and fundamental characteristics (e.g., price-to-book, price-to-earnings, debt-to-asset ratios and dividend yields) closely approximate those of the Index. Stocks not in the Index may be held before or after changes in the composition of the Index or if they have characteristics similar to stocks in the Index.
Principal Risks of Investing in the Portfolio
As with any mutual fund, there can be no assurance that the Portfolio’s investment goal will be met or that the net return on an investment in the Portfolio will exceed what could have been obtained through other investment or savings vehicles. Shares of the Portfolio are not bank deposits and are not guaranteed or insured by any bank, government entity or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. If the value of the assets of the Portfolio goes down, you could lose money.

The following is a summary of the principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.

Equity Securities Risk. The Portfolio invests principally in equity securities and is therefore subject to the risk that stock prices will fall and may underperform other asset classes. Individual stock prices fluctuate from day-to-day and may decline significantly.

Small- and Mid-Cap Companies Risk. Securities of small- and mid-cap companies are usually more volatile and entail greater risks than securities of large companies.

Value Investing Risk. When investing in securities which are believed to be undervalued in the market, there is a risk that the market may not recognize a security’s intrinsic value for a long period of time, or that a stock judged to be undervalued may actually be appropriately priced.

Foreign Investment Risk. The Portfolio’s investments in the securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk. Foreign countries in which the Portfolio invests may have markets that are less liquid, less regulated and more volatile than U.S. markets. The value of the Portfolio’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable government actions, and political or financial instability and other conditions or events (including, for example, military confrontations, war, terrorism, disease/virus, outbreaks and epidemics). Lack of information may also affect the value of these securities. The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries.

Failure to Match Index Performance Risk. The ability of the Portfolio to match the performance of the Index may be affected by, among other things, changes in securities markets, the manner in which performance of the Index is calculated, changes in the composition of the Index, the amount and timing of cash flows into and out of the Portfolio, commissions, portfolio expenses, and any differences in the pricing of securities by the Portfolio and the Index. When the Portfolio employs an “optimization” strategy, the Portfolio is subject to an increased risk of tracking error, in that the securities selected in the aggregate for the Portfolio may perform differently than the underlying index.

Index Risk. The passively-managed index portion of the Portfolio generally will not sell securities in its portfolio and buy different securities over the course of a year other than in conjunction with changes in its target index, even if there are adverse developments concerning a particular security, company or industry. As a result, you may suffer losses that you would not experience with an actively-managed mutual fund.

Real Estate Industry Risk. These risks include declines in the value of real estate, risks related to general and local economic conditions, overbuilding and increased competition, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, fluctuations in rental income, changes in neighborhood values, changes in the appeal of properties to tenants and increases in interest rates. If the Portfolio has rental income or income from the disposition of real property, the receipt of such income may adversely affect its ability to retain its tax status as a regulated investment company.

Large-Cap Companies Risk. Large-cap companies tend to be less volatile than companies with smaller market capitalizations. In exchange for this potentially lower risk, the Portfolio’s value may not rise as much as the value of portfolios that emphasize smaller companies.

Affiliated Fund Rebalancing Risk. The Portfolio may be an investment option for other mutual funds for which SunAmerica serves as investment adviser that are managed as “funds of funds.” From time to time, the Portfolio may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to the rebalancing of a fund of funds. In the event of such redemptions or investments, the Portfolio could be required to sell securities or to invest cash at a time when it is not advantageous to do so.

Management Risk. The Portfolio is subject to management risk because it is an actively-managed investment portfolio. The Portfolio’s portfolio managers apply investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions or the individual securities selected by the portfolio managers will produce the desired results.

Market Risk. The Portfolio’s share price can fall because of weakness in the broad market, a particular industry, or specific holdings. The market as a whole can decline for many reasons, including adverse political or economic developments in the United States or abroad, changes in investor psychology, or heavy institutional selling and other conditions or events (including, for example, military confrontations, war, terrorism, disease/virus, outbreaks and epidemics). In addition, the adviser’s or a subadviser’s assessment of securities held in the Portfolio may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance even in a rising market.

Issuer Risk. The value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer, such as management performance, financial leverage and reduced demand for the issuer’s goods and services.
Performance Information
The following bar chart illustrates the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from calendar year to calendar year and the table compares the Portfolio’s average annual returns to those of the Russell Midcap® Value Index. Fees and expenses incurred at the contract level are not reflected in the bar chart or table. If these amounts were reflected, returns would be less than those shown. Of course, past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.

Effective February 6, 2017, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”) assumed management of a portion of the Portfolio, which was previously managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. Effective October 24, 2014, Massachusetts Financial Services Company (“MFS”) assumed management of a portion of the Portfolio, which was previously managed by Lord Abbett & Co. LLC.
(Class 1 Shares)
Bar Chart
During the 10-year period shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a quarter was 13.19% (quarter ended March 31, 2019) and the lowest return for a quarter was -20.53% (quarter ended September 30, 2011). The year-to-date calendar return as of June 30, 2020 was -16.38%.
Average Annual Total Returns (For the periods ended December 31, 2019)
Average Annual Returns - SA Multi-Managed Mid Cap Value Portfolio
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, 5 Years
Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Class 1 25.38% 6.41% 10.86%
Class 2 25.16% 6.25% 10.69%
Class 3 25.07% 6.15% 10.58%
Russell Midcap® Value Index 27.06% 7.62% 12.41%