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May 01, 2025
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund
 Investment Objective

The Fund seeks  to match the performance of the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400® Index (“S&P 400 Index”) as closely as possible.

 Fees and Expenses   Fees and Expenses of the Fund

The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. The Fund is offered exclusively as an investment option for certain Contracts. The table below reflects only Fund expenses and does not reflect Contract fees and expenses. If Contract fees and expenses were included, the fees and expenses in the following table would be higher. Please refer to the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - AZL Mid Cap Index Fund
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 1
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 2
Management Fee 0.25% 0.25%
Distribution (12b-1) Fees none 0.25%
Other Expenses 0.08% 0.08%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.33% 0.58%
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. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same, and that you reinvest all dividends and distributions. It does not reflect any Contract fees. If Contract fees were included, the costs shown would be higher. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - AZL Mid Cap Index Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 1 34 106 185 418
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 2 59 186 324 726
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. 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 17% of the average value of its portfolio.

 Investments, Risks, and Performance   Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund

The Fund employs a passive management approach, investing in a portfolio of assets whose performance is expected to match approximately the performance of the S&P 400 Index before the deduction of Fund expenses. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in a statistically selected sampling of equity securities of companies included in the S&P 400 Index and in derivative instruments linked to the S&P 400 Index, primarily futures contracts.

 

The S&P 400 Index is a market-weighted index composed of approximately 400 common stocks of medium-sized U.S. companies in a wide range of businesses chosen by Standard & Poor’s based on a number of factors, including industry representation, market value, economic sector and operating/financial condition. As of February 28, 2025, the market capitalizations of companies in the S&P 400 Index ranged from $1.3 billion to $24.6 billion.

 

The Fund does not necessarily invest in all of the securities in the S&P 400 Index or in the same weightings as the securities have in the index. The Fund’s Subadviser chooses investments so that the market capitalizations, industry weightings, and other fundamental characteristics of the securities chosen are similar to the S&P 400 Index as a whole.

 

 

Industry Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the S&P 400 Index is concentrated.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
Performance Information

The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one year, five years, ten years, and since inception, as applicable, compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the Russell 3000 Index. The Fund’s performance also is compared to the returns of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, which is relevant to the Fund because it has characteristics similar to the Fund’s investment strategies.

 

Both the bar chart and the table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions.

 

 

The performance of the Fund will vary from year to year. The Fund’s performance does not reflect the cost of insurance and separate account charges which are imposed under your Contract. If they were included, performance would be reduced. Past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.

Performance Bar Chart and Table (Class 2)   Calendar Year Total Return
Bar Chart

Highest and Lowest Quarter Returns (for periods shown in the bar chart)

 

Highest (Q4, 2020) 25.91%
Lowest (Q1, 2020) -29.85%
Average Annual Total Returns
Average Annual Returns - AZL Mid Cap Index Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Since Inception
Inception Date
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 1 13.69% 10.26% 10.69% Oct. 17, 2016
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund Class 2 13.44% 9.99% 9.19% May 01, 2009
Russell 3000 Index [1] 23.81% 13.86% 12.55% 14.56%  
S&P MidCap 400 Index [1] 13.93% 10.34% 9.68% 10.90%  
[1] Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.

Effective June 30, 2024, the Fund changed its broad-based securities market benchmark from the S&P MidCap 400 Index to the Russell 3000 Index to reflect that the Russell 3000 Index can be considered more broadly representative of the overall applicable securities markets.