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AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund
 Investment Objective

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

 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 Moderate Index Strategy Fund
AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund
Management Fee 0.20%
Other Expenses 0.03%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.59% [1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.82%
Fee Waiver (0.15%) [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver 0.67% [2]
[1] Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the Fund’s Financial Highlights, the Fund’s total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights table.
[2] The Manager and the Fund have entered into a written agreement reducing the management fee to 0.05% through at least April 30, 2026, after which the fee waiver may be terminated by the Manager or the Fund at any time and for any reason.
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. It reflects the management fee waiver agreement for the first year. 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
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund | AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund | USD ($) 68 247 440 1,000
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 12% of the average value of its portfolio.

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

The Fund is a fund of funds that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a combination of five underlying index funds:

 

Fund

Target Allocation

AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund    40%
AZL S&P 500 Index Fund 37.5%
AZL International Index Fund 16.5%
AZL Mid Cap Index Fund   3.5%
AZL Small Cap Stock Index Fund   2.5%

 

The AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund is a bond index fund, subadvised by BlackRock Financial Management, LLC; the other four underlying funds are equity index funds, subadvised by BlackRock Investment Management, LLC. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 60% of its assets in the underlying equity index funds and approximately 40% of its assets in the underlying bond index fund. These target allocations represent the Fund’s long-term strategic asset allocation, which is not expected to change under normal market conditions.

 

The investment results of the underlying funds will vary. As a result, the Manager monitors the actual allocations to the underlying funds daily and periodically adjusts the actual allocations to attempt to achieve the target allocation. Generally, the Manager will seek to maintain the actual fund allocations to target using the cash flows that result from contract holders buying or selling shares in the Fund. However, if cash flows were insufficient to maintain the target allocations, the Manager would then buy or sell underlying funds as necessary to attempt to return the Fund’s actual asset allocations to the targets. Generally, the actual allocations will not be more than 10% above or below the targets.

 

The AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund under normal circumstances invests in a combination of securities with an overall weighting close to the capitalization weights of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”). Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in investment-grade debt securities (those of medium and high quality) of all types and repurchase agreements for those securities. Further, under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in securities or other financial instruments that are components of or have economic characteristics similar to the securities included in the Index. The subadviser of the AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund uses the Index as a guide in structuring the Fund and selecting its investments and manages the Fund to have similar overall interest rate risk to the Index, with the investment objective of seeking to exceed the total return of the Index.

 

The AZL S&P 500 Index Fund under normal circumstances invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in the securities of or in a statistically selected sampling of the securities of companies included in the S&P 500 Index or in derivative instruments linked to that Index.

 

The AZL Mid Cap Index Fund under normal circumstances 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 AZL Small Cap Stock Index Fund under normal market conditions invests at least 80% of its assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in investments of small-capitalization companies, which for this purpose are companies with market capitalizations (the total market value of a company’s outstanding stock) at the time of purchase included in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

 

The AZL International Index Fund under normal circumstances invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in a statistically selected sampling of equity securities of companies included in the MSCI EAFE Index and in derivative instruments linked to the MSCI EAFE Index, primarily futures contracts.

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, and ten years compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500® Index. The Fund’s performance also is compared to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with the returns of a broad index of investment-grade fixed-rate issues, and to a Moderate Composite Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500 Index (60%) and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (40%) in proportions similar to the equity to fixed income allocation of the Fund.

 

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.

 

Prior to October 14, 2016, the Fund was subadvised by Invesco Advisers, Inc., managed pursuant to different investment strategies, and known as the AZL Invesco Equity and Income Fund. Consequently, the performance information shown below for periods prior to October 14, 2016, reflects the Fund’s prior investment strategies and not its current investment strategies.

Performance Bar Chart and Table   Calendar Year Total Return
Bar Chart

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

 

 

Highest (Q2, 2020) 13.34%
Lowest (Q1, 2020) -13.36%
Average Annual Total Returns
Average Annual Returns - AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
AZL Moderate Index Strategy Fund 9.98% 6.21% 6.29%
S&P 500 Index [1] 25.02% 14.53% 13.10%
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index [1] 1.25% (0.33%) 1.35%
Moderate Composite Index [1] 15.13% 8.80% 8.57%
[1] Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.