Virtus Disciplined Equity Style Fund

The fund has an investment objective of capital appreciation.

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 Virtus Disciplined Equity Style Fund	Class A		Class C		Class I
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	5.75%		none		none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds)	1.00%	^[1]	1.00%	^[2]	none

[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 deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed during the first year only.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses Virtus Disciplined Equity Style Fund		Class A	Class C	Class I
Management Fees		1.00%	1.00%	1.00%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) fees		0.25%	1.00%	none
Other Expenses	^[1]	6.80%	6.80%	6.80%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses	^[2]	0.24%	0.24%	0.24%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		8.29%	9.04%	8.04%

[1]	Restated to reflect current expenses.
[2]	The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses do not correlate to the ratio of expense to average net assets appearing in the Financial Highlights tables, which tables reflect only the operating expenses of the fund and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses.

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 and that the expense reimbursement arrangement remains in place only for the period indicated. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example, No Redemption Virtus Disciplined Equity Style Fund (USD $)	Share Status	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	Sold or Held	1,343	2,805	4,173	7,216
Class C	Held	886	2,551	4,085	7,409
Class I	Sold or Held	792	2,304	3,725	6,918

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 period from inception (December 18, 2012) through its fiscal year end (September 30, 2013), the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 447% of the average value of its portfolio.

The fund seeks to outperform the Russell 3000® Index over a full market cycle in the U.S. equity market by tactically allocating net assets among six subsets of the U.S. equity universe that make up the Growth and Value equity styles as set forth below.

Growth:

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Large-Cap Growth

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Mid-Cap Growth

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Small-Cap Growth

Value:

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Large-Cap Value

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Mid-Cap Value

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Small-Cap Value

Allocations are based on a quantitative model that estimates performance trends for each pairing of these six subsets of the U.S. equity market relative to each other and uses these estimates to determine, on a weekly basis, whether the Growth or Value style is better positioned. The fund will invest assets in the equity style with the favorable aggregate score relative to the other style. The ability of the fund to outperform the Russell 3000® Index will depend on, among other things, the length of time and degree to which Growth stocks outperform Value stocks or Value stocks outperform Growth stocks in the U.S. equity market.

Each allocation may be invested in ETFs and/or baskets of securities representative of such ETFs. The fund may invest in a basket of securities to represent an ETF if it determines that investment in the ETF is not feasible or otherwise not in the best interest of the fund. Under normal circumstances, the fund intends to invest at least 80% of its assets in ETFs and/or securities representative of the U.S. equity market.

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. In addition, you will also be subject to the risks associated with the principal investment strategies of any ETFs in which the fund invests. The principal risks of investing in the fund are:

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Equity Securities Risk. The risk that events negatively affecting issuers, industries or financial markets in which the fund invests, will impact the value of the stocks held by the fund and thus, the value of the fund’s shares over short or extended periods. Investments in a particular style or in small or medium-sized companies may enhance that risk.

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Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) Risk. The risk that the value of an ETF will be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities the ETF is designed to track, or that the costs to the fund of owning shares of the ETF will exceed those the fund would incur by investing in such securities directly.

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Fund of Funds Risk. The risk that the underlying funds in which the fund invests will expose the fund to negative performance and additional expenses associated with investment in such funds, and increased volatility.

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Growth Stocks Risk. The risk that the fund’s investments in growth stocks will be more volatile than investments in other types of stocks, or will perform differently from the market as a whole and from other types of stocks.

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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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Model Portfolio Risk. The risk that investments selected using quantitative models may perform differently from the market as a whole or from their expected performance. There can be no assurance that use of a quantitative model will enable the fund to achieve positive returns or outperform the market.

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Portfolio Turnover Risk. The risk that the fund’s principal investment strategies will result in a consistently high portfolio turnover rate. See the Portfolio Turnover section above for more information about the impact that portfolio turnover can have on fund performance.

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Small and Medium Market Capitalization Risk. The risk that the fund’s investments in small and medium market capitalization companies will increase the volatility and risk of loss to the fund, as compared with investments in larger, more established companies.

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Value Stocks Risk. The risk that the fund will underperform when value investing is out of favor or that the fund’s investments will not appreciate in value as anticipated.

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 for its first full year of operations. The table shows how the fund’s average annual returns compare to those of two broad-based securities market indexes. Updated performance information is available at virtus.com or by calling 800-243-1574.

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

Annual Return (%)

Best Quarter:

Q1/2013:

12.08%

Worst Quarter:

Q2/2013:

1.89%

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

The S&P 500® Index is a free-float market capitalization-weighted index of 500 of the largest U.S. companies. The Russell 3000® Index measures the performance of the largest 3000 U.S. companies representing approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market. The indexes are calculated on a total return basis with dividends reinvested. The indexes are 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.