VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND

Virtus Multi-Sector Intermediate Bond Fund

Investment Objective

The fund has investment objectives of maximizing current income while preserving capital.

Fees and Expenses

The tables below illustrate all fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Virtus Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial advisor and under “Sales Charges” on page 215 of the fund’s prospectus and “Alternative Purchase Arrangements” on page 103 of the fund’s statement of additional information.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND	Class A		Class B		Class C	Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	3.75%		none		none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds)	0.50%	[1]	5.00%	[2]	1.00%	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND		Class A	Class B	Class C	Class I
Management Fees		0.55%	0.55%	0.55%	0.55%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) fees		0.25%	1.00%	1.00%	none
Other Expenses	[1]	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		1.09%	1.84%	1.84%	0.84%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund 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 fund’s operating expenses remain the same. In the case of Class B Shares, it assumes that your shares are converted to Class A Shares after eight years. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND (USD $)	Share Status	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	Sold or Held	482	709	953	1,654
Class B	Sold	587	779	995	1,962
Class C	Sold	287	579	995	2,159
Class I	Sold or Held	86	268	466	1,037

Expense Example, No Redemption VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND (USD $)	Share Status	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	Sold or Held	482	709	953	1,654
Class B	Held	187	579	995	1,962
Class C	Held	187	579	995	2,159
Class I	Sold or Held	86	268	466	1,037

Portfolio Turnover

The fund 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 and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 77%of the average value of its portfolio.

Investments, Risks and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund seeks to generate high current income and total return while preserving capital by applying extensive credit research and a time-tested approach designed to capitalize on opportunities across undervalued sectors of the bond market. The portfolio seeks diversification among 14 sectors in an effort to increase return potential and reduce risk.

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds, which are debt securities of various types of issuers. The fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing in a diversified portfolio of primarily intermediate-term bonds having a dollar-weighted average maturity of between three and 10 years and that are in one of the following market sectors:

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• Securities issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, its agencies, authorities or instrumentalities, including collateralized mortgage obligations, real estate mortgage investment conduits and other pass-through securities;

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• Debt securities issued by foreign issuers, including foreign governments and their political subdivisions and issuers located in emerging markets countries;

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• Investment grade securities of U.S. and non-U.S issuers; and

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• High yield debt instruments, including bank loans (which are generally floating rate), of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers.

The fund may invest in all or some of these sectors.

Principal Risks

The fund may not achieve its objective, and it is not intended to be a complete investment program. The value of the fund’s investments that supports your share value may decrease. If between the time you purchase shares and the time you sell shares the value of the fund’s investments decreases, you will lose money. Investment values can decrease for a number of reasons. Conditions affecting the overall economy, specific industries or companies in which the fund invests can be worse than expected, and investments may fail to perform as the subadviser expects. As a result, the value of your shares may decrease. Purchase and redemption activities by fund shareholders may impact the management of the fund and its ability to achieve its investment objective(s). The redemption by one or more large shareholders or groups of shareholders of their holdings in the fund could have an adverse impact on the remaining shareholders in the fund including by accelerating the realization of capital gains and increasing the fund's transaction costs. The principal risks of investing in the fund are:

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• Credit Risk. The risk that the issuer of a security will fail to pay interest or principal in a timely manner, or that negative perceptions of the issuer’s ability to make such payments will cause the price of the security to decline.

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• Emerging Market Investing Risk. The risk that prices of emerging markets securities will be more volatile, or will be more greatly affected by negative conditions, than those of their counterparts in more established foreign markets.

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• Foreign Investing Risk. The risk that the prices of foreign securities in the fund’s portfolio will be more volatile than those of domestic securities, or will be negatively affected by currency fluctuations or economic, political or other developments.

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• High-Yield/High-Risk Fixed Income Securities (Junk Bonds) Risk. The risk that the issuers of high-yield/ high-risk securities in the fund’s portfolio will default, that the prices of such securities will be volatile, and that the securities will not be liquid.

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• Interest Rate Risk. The risk that when interest rates rise, the values of the fund’s debt securities, especially those with longer maturities, will fall.

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• Long-Term Maturities/Durations Risk. The risk of greater price fluctuations than would be associated with securities having shorter maturities or durations.

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• Market Volatility Risk. The risk that the value of the securities in which the fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be temporary or may last for extended periods.

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• Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities Risk. The risk that changes in interest rates will cause both extension and prepayment risks for mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities in which the fund invests, or that an impairment of the value of collateral underlying such securities will cause the value of the securities to decrease.

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• U.S. Government Securities Risk. The risk that U.S. Government securities in the fund’s portfolio will be subject to price fluctuations, or that an agency or instrumentality will default on an obligation not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Performance Information

The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the fund. The fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year over a 10-year period. The table shows how the fund’s average annual returns compare to those of a broad-based securities market index. Updated performance information is available at virtus.com or by calling 800-243-1574.

Calendar year total returns for Class A Shares(includes returns of a predecessor fund)

Returns do not reflect sales charges and would be lower if they did.

Annual Return (%)

Best Quarter: Q2/2009: 16.15% Worst Quarter: Q4/2008: -14.37%

Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended 12/31/13; includes returns of a predecessor fund)

Returns reflect deduction of maximum sales charges and full redemption at end of periods shown.

Average Annual Total Returns VIRTUS MULTI-SECTOR INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND	Label	1 Year	5 Years	10 Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Class A	Return Before Taxes	(1.65%)	13.29%	5.75%
Class A Return After Taxes on Distributions	Return After Taxes on Distributions	(4.29%)	10.62%	3.37%
Class A Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	(0.76%)	9.51%	3.50%
Class B	Return Before Taxes	(2.39%)	13.31%	5.36%
Class C	Return Before Taxes	1.40%	13.33%	5.38%
Class I	Return Before Taxes	2.44%			8.82%	Oct. 01, 2009
Class I Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fee, expenses or taxes)				3.79%	Oct. 01, 2009
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fee, expenses or taxes)	(2.02%)	4.44%	4.55%

The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index measures the U.S. investment grade fixed rate bond market. The index is calculated on a total return basis. The index is unmanaged and not available for direct investment.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A Shares; after-tax returns for other classes will vary. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold fund shares in tax-deferred accounts or to shares held by non-taxable entities. In certain cases, the Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares for a period may be higher than other return figures for the same period. This will occur when a capital loss is realized upon the sale of fund shares and provides an assumed tax benefit that increases the return.

[1] Generally, Class A Shares are not subject to any charges by the Fund when redeemed; however, a contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on certain redemptions (i) within 18 months on exchanges from a Virtus non-money market fund into a Virtus money market fund; and (ii) on purchases on which a finder's fee has been paid. The 18-month period begins on the last day of the month preceding the month in which the purchase was made.

[2] The maximum deferred sales charge is imposed on Class B Shares redeemed during the first year; thereafter, it decreases 1% annually to 2% during the fourth and fifth years and to 0% after the fifth year. The deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed during the first year only.

[1] Restated to reflect current expenses.