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(Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund Z) | (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund)

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks total return before fees and expenses that exceeds the total return of the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500® Index.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund)
Class Z Shares
(Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund Z)
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases, as a % of offering price  
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) imposed on redemptions, as a % of the lower of the original purchase price or net asset value  

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund)
Class Z Shares
(Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund Z)
Management fees [1] 0.75%
Distribution and/or service (Rule 12b-1) fees none
Other expenses [2] 0.26%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 1.01%
Fee waivers and/or reimbursements [1][3] (0.31%)
Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waivers and/or reimbursements 0.70%
[1] Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (the Adviser) has contractually agreed to waive a portion of the advisory fee so that the net management fees would be 0.55%, 0.60%, 0.65%, and 0.70% in the fiscal periods ending June 30, 2012, June 30, 2013, June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015, respectively.
[2] Other expenses have been restated to reflect contractual changes to the fees paid by the Fund.
[3] The Adviser and certain of its affiliates have contractually agreed to waive fees or reimburse expenses, through June 30, 2012, so that the Fund's ordinary operating expenses (excluding certain expenses, such as transaction costs and brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses), after giving effect to any balance credits or overdraft charges from the Fund's custodian, do not exceed the annual rate of 0.70% of the Fund's average daily net assets attributable to Class Z shares. This expense arrangement is made pursuant to a fee waiver and expense cap agreement that may be modified or amended only with approval from all parties to such arrangements, including the Fund and the Adviser.

Example

The following 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 illustrates the hypothetical expenses that you would incur over the time periods indicated, and assumes that:

  • you invest $10,000 in Class Z shares of the Fund for the periods indicated,

  • your investment has a 5% return each year, and

  • the Fund's total annual operating expenses remain the same as shown in the table above.

Since the waivers shown in footnote (a) to the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above expire on June 30, 2015 they are only reflected in the 1 and 3 year example and the first four years of the 5 and 10 year example.

Additionally, since the waivers and/or reimbursements shown in footnote (c) to the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above expire on June 30, 2012, they are only reflected in the 1 year example and the first year of the 3, 5 and 10 year examples.

Based on the assumptions listed above, your costs would be:

Expense Example (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund) (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class Z Shares (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund Z)
72 264 496 1,178

Remember this is an example only. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.

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 63% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in common stocks that comprise the S&P 500® Index, convertible securities that are convertible into stocks included in that index, and derivatives whose returns are closely equivalent to the returns of the S&P 500® Index or its components. The Fund generally holds fewer stocks than the index and may hold securities that are not in the index.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, the Fund's investment adviser (the Adviser), attempts to maintain a portfolio that generally matches the risk characteristics of the S&P 500® Index. The Adviser will vary the number and percentages of the Fund's holdings in attempting to provide higher returns than the S&P 500® Index and to reduce the potential of underperforming such index over time.

The Adviser uses quantitative analysis to evaluate the relative attractiveness of potential investments by considering a wide variety of factors which may include, among others, value measures (e.g., price-to-cash flows, price-to-earnings, price-to-book value), growth measures (e.g., earnings growth, revenue growth), price momentum and earnings momentum. Investments are selected with the intention of increasing return relative to the S&P 500® Index and/or reducing portfolio volatility relative to the S&P 500® Index.

The Adviser may sell a security when it believes other stocks in the index or other investments are more attractive, when the security is removed from the index, or for other reasons.

The Fund's investment strategy may involve the frequent trading of portfolio securities. This may cause the Fund to incur higher transaction costs (which may adversely affect the Fund's performance) and may increase taxable distributions for shareholders.

Principal Risks

  • Investment Strategy Risk -- The Adviser uses the principal investment strategies and other investment strategies to seek to achieve the Fund's investment objective. There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Investment decisions made by the Adviser in using these strategies may not produce the returns expected by the Adviser, may cause the Fund's shares to lose value or may cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives.

  • Market Risk -- Market risk refers to the possibility that the market values of securities that the Fund holds will fall, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Security values may fall because of factors affecting individual companies, industries or sectors, or the markets as a whole, reducing the value of an investment in the Fund. Accordingly, an investment in the Fund could lose money over short or even long periods. The market values of the securities the Fund holds also can be affected by changes or perceived changes in U.S. or foreign economies and financial markets, and the liquidity of these securities, among other factors. In general, equity securities tend to have greater price volatility than debt securities.

  • Index Risk -- The Fund's value will generally decline when the performance of its targeted index declines. In addition, because the Fund may not hold all issues included in its index, may not always be fully invested, and bears advisory, administrative and other expenses and transaction costs in trading securities, the Fund's performance may fail to match the performance of its targeted index, after taking expenses into account. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

  • Derivatives Risk -- Derivatives are financial contracts whose values are, for example, based on (or "derived" from) traditional securities (such as a stock or bond), assets (such as a commodity like gold or a foreign currency), reference rates (such as LIBOR) or market indices (such as the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500® Index). Derivatives involve special risks and may result in losses or may limit the Fund's potential gain from favorable market movements. Derivative strategies often involve leverage, which may exaggerate a loss, potentially causing the Fund to lose more money than it would have lost had it invested in the underlying security or other asset. The values of derivatives may move in unexpected ways, especially in unusual market conditions, and may result in increased volatility, among other consequences. The use of derivatives may also increase the amount of taxes payable by shareholders holding shares in a taxable account. Other risks arise from the Fund's potential inability to terminate or to sell derivative positions. A liquid secondary market may not always exist for the Fund's derivative positions at times when the Fund might wish to terminate or to sell such positions. Over-the-counter instruments (investments not traded on an exchange) may be illiquid, and transactions in derivatives traded in the over-the-counter market are subject to the risk that the other party will not meet its obligations. The use of derivatives also involves the risks of mispricing or improper valuation and that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying security, asset, reference rate or index. The Fund also may not be able to find a suitable derivative transaction counterparty, and thus may be unable to engage in derivative transactions when it is deemed favorable to do so, or at all. For more information on the risks of derivative investments and strategies, see the Statement of Additional Information.

  • Frequent Trading Risk -- Frequent trading of investments increases the possibility that the Fund will realize taxable capital gains (including short-term capital gains, which are generally taxable at higher rates than long-term capital gains for U.S. federal income tax purposes), which could reduce the Fund's after-tax return. Frequent trading can also mean higher brokerage and other transaction costs, which could reduce the Fund's return.

  • Quantitative Model Risk -- The Fund may use quantitative methods to select investments. Securities or other investments selected using quantitative methods may perform differently from the market as a whole or from their expected performance for many reasons, including factors used in building the quantitative analytical framework, the weights placed on each factor, and changing sources of market returns, among others. Any errors or imperfections in the Adviser's or a sub-adviser's quantitative analyses or models, or in the data on which they are based, could adversely affect the ability of the Adviser or a sub-adviser to use such analyses or models effectively, which in turn could adversely affect the Fund's performance. There can be no assurance that these methodologies will help the Fund to achieve its objective.

Performance Information

The following bar chart and table show you how the Fund has performed in the past, and can help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The Fund's past performance (before or after taxes) is no guarantee of how the Fund will perform in the future.

More recent performance information is available on the Columbia Funds' website at www.columbiamanagement.com or by calling 800.345.6611.

The bar chart below shows you how the performance of the Fund's Class Z shares has varied from year to year.

Year by Year Total Return (%) as of December 31 Each Year

[1]
Bar Chart
Best and Worst Quarterly Returns During this Period

Best:   2nd quarter 2009:     15.74%
Worst:  4th quarter 2008:    -21.29%

Average Annual Total Return as of December 31, 2010

The table compares the Fund's returns for each period with those of the S&P 500® Index, which tracks the performance of 500 widely held, large-capitalization U.S. stocks.

Average Annual Total Returns (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund) (Columbia Large Cap Enhanced Core Fund Z)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Class Z Shares
13.32% 1.64% 1.66%
Class Z Shares returns after taxes on distributions
13.08% 0.72% 0.40%
Class Z Shares returns after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares
8.98% 1.07% 0.85%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
15.06% 2.29% 1.41%

The after-tax returns shown in the table above are calculated using the highest historical individual U.S. federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Your actual after-tax returns will depend on your personal tax situation and may differ from those shown in the table. In addition, the after-tax returns shown in the table do not apply to shares held in tax-deferred accounts such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts (IRAs).

[1] Year-to-date return as of March 31, 2011: 6.82%