AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund

AZL® Balanced Index Strategy Fund

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation with preservation of capital as an important consideration.

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 only as an investment option for certain Contracts. The table below reflects only Fund expenses and does not reflect Contract fees and expenses. Please refer to your 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 Balanced Index Strategy Fund
Management Fee		0.05%
Distribution (12b-1) Fees		none
Other Expenses		0.04%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses	[1]	0.64%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		0.73%

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 (USD $)	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund	75	233	406	906

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 6% 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 goal by investing primarily in a combination of five underlying index funds (the “Index Strategy Underlying Funds”):

• AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund

• AZL S&P 500 Index Fund

• AZL Mid Cap Index Fund

• AZL Small Cap Stock Index Fund

• AZL International Index Fund

Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate 40% – 60% of its assets in the underlying equity index funds and 40% – 60% of its assets in the underlying bond index fund. The AZL Enhanced Bond Index Fund is a bond index fund; the other four Index Strategy Underlying Funds are equity index funds.

The investment results of the Index Strategy Underlying Funds will vary. As a result, the portfolio management team monitors the allocations to the Index Strategy Underlying Funds daily and periodically adjusts the allocations. The performance and income distributions of each of the Index Strategy Underlying Funds will differ from the performance and income distributions of the underlying funds as a result of small variations in the Fund’s allocations and any cash held in its portfolio.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The price per share of the Fund will fluctuate with changes in value of the investments held by the Fund. You may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective.

As a fund of funds, the Fund is subject to allocation risk, which is the risk associated with the Manager’s decision regarding how the Fund’s assets should be allocated among the various underlying investment options. The Manager’s decisions about the allocation of the Fund’s assets could cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives. There also can be no guarantee that investment decisions made by the Manager will produce the desired results.

Because the Fund invests in the Index Strategy Underlying Funds, it is also subject to the risks associated with those investments. With a target allocation of approximately 40%-60% of its assets in equity strategies, the Fund is proportionately subject to market risk, which is the risk that the market value of portfolio securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, and foreign risk, which includes the risks of fluctuations in currency values, adverse political, social or economic developments, and differences in social and economic developments or policies.

With a target allocation of approximately 40%-60% of its assets in fixed income strategies, the Fund is proportionately subject to bond risks, including: interest rate risk, which is the risk that the debt securities held by the underlying fund may decline in value due to rising interest rates; credit risk, which is the chance that the failure of the issuer of a debt security to pay interest or repay principal in a timely manner may have an adverse impact on the underlying fund’s earnings; income risk, which is the chance that falling interest rates may cause the underlying fund’s income to decline; call risk or prepayment risk, which is the risk that if interest rates fall, issuers of callable debt securities are more likely to prepay prior to the maturity date, and the underlying fund may not be able to reinvest the proceeds from the prepayment in investments that will generate the same level of income; and extension risk, which is the risk that, if interest rates rise, debt securities may be paid in full more slowly than anticipated.

The Fund is also subject to issuer risk, which is the risk that the value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer of the security. Also, because the underlying funds do not attempt to manage market volatility or reduce the effects of poor stock performance, the Fund is subject to index fund risk; factors such as fund expenses, changes in the composition of the index, or the timing of purchases or redemptions of Fund shares may affect the correlation between the performance of the index and the Fund’s performance.

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 and since its inception compare with those of a broad measure of market performance, the S&P 500^® Index. The Fund’s performance also is compared to the Barclays Capital 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 debt issues, and to a Balanced Composite Index, which shows how the Fund’s performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500^® Index (50%) and the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (50%) 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.

Performance Bar Chart and TableCalendar Year Total Return

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

Highest (Q3, 2010)	7.45%
Lowest (Q3, 2011)	-7.07%

Average Annual Total Returns

Average Annual Total Returns	One Year Ended December 31, 2011
		Since Inception	Inception Date
AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund	2.41%	10.93%	Jul. 10, 2009
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund	2.11%	17.97%	Jul. 10, 2009
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund	7.84%	6.94%	Jul. 10, 2009
Balanced Composite Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes) AZL Balanced Index Strategy Fund	5.57%	13.01%	Jul. 10, 2009

[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.