497 1 d333943d497.htm AMERICAN FUNDS GROWTH PORTFOLIO SUPPLEMENT American Funds Growth Portfolio Supplement

MET INVESTORS SERIES TRUST

SUPPLEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 1, 2017

TO THE

PROSPECTUS DATED MAY 1, 2016, AS SUPPLEMENTED

AMERICAN FUNDS® GROWTH PORTFOLIO

Effective immediately, Gregory D. Johnson no longer serves as a Portfolio Manager of the American Funds® Growth Portfolio (the “Portfolio”), a series of Met Investors Series Trust. The following changes are made to the prospectus of the Portfolio.

In the Portfolio Summary, the subsection entitled “Portfolio Managers” of the section entitled “Management” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

Portfolio Managers

Michael T. Kerr, Partner of Capital World Investors (“CWI”); Ronald B. Morrow, Partner of CWI; Alan J. Wilson, Partner of CWI, Martin Romo, Partner of CWI and Andraz Razen, Vice President of CWI, have managed the Growth Fund since 2005, 2003, 2014, May 2016 and 2015, respectively. The portfolio managers manage separate segments of the Growth Fund.

In the section entitled “Additional Information About Management,” the table in the subsection entitled “The Master Fund’s Investment Adviser” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Portfolio Managers
for the Fund/Title
(if applicable)
 

Primary Title

with CRMC

(or affiliate)

 

Years of Experience as

Portfolio Managers (and

research professional,

if applicable) (approximate)

 

Approximate Years of

Experience as an Investment

Professional

     

With CRMC

(or affiliate)

  Total Years

Michael T. Kerr

  Partner—CWI   11 years   31   33

Ronald B. Morrow

  Partner—CWI   13 years (plus 5 years of prior experience as an investment analyst for the Fund)   19   48

Alan J. Wilson

  Partner—CWI   2 years   25   31

Martin Romo

  Partner—CWI   less than 1 year   23   24

Andraz Razen

  Vice President—CWI   3 years (plus 3 years of prior experience as an investment analyst for the Fund)   12   18

INVESTORS SHOULD RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT WITH

THE PROSPECTUS FOR FUTURE REFERENCE