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Summary Prospectus   AZL® MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund

May 1, 2018

AZL® MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) and other information about the Fund online at www.allianzlife.com/azlfunds. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-624-0197 or by sending an email request to variableannuity@send.allianzlife.com. The Fund’s Prospectus and SAI, both dated May 1, 2018, as supplemented, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

 

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 only 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 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)

 

Management Fee

     0.20%  

Other Expenses

     0.10%  

Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses(1)

     0.86%  
  

 

 

 

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

     1.16%  

Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement(2)(3)

     -0.15%  
  

 

 

 

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement(2)(3)

     1.01%  
  

 

 

 

 

(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 0.10% through at least April 30, 2019, after which the fee waiver may be terminated by the Manager or the Fund at any time and for any reason.
(3)  The Manager and the Fund have entered into a written agreement limiting operating expenses, excluding certain expenses (such as interest expense and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses), to 0.15% through at least April 30, 2019, after which the expense limitation agreement may be terminated for any reason by the Fund at any time or by the Manager on 30 days written notice to the Fund. Amounts contractually waived or reimbursed under the expense limitation agreement in a particular fiscal year may be recouped by the Manager within the next three fiscal years to the extent that recoupment will not cause the Fund’s expenses to exceed the lesser of any applicable limits in effect (i) at the time of the original waiver and (ii) at the time of such reimbursement, as supported by standard accounting practices.

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 and expense reimbursement agreements 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:

 

1 Year    3 Years      5 Years      10 Years  

$103

   $ 354      $ 624      $ 1,396  

 

 

The Allianz Variable Insurance Products Fund of Funds Trust

 

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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 15% 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 funds, subadvised by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP:

 

FUND   TARGET ALLOCATION  

•  AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund

    40%  

•  AZL DFA U.S. Core Equity Fund

    38%  

•  AZL DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund

    10%  

•  AZL DFA International Core Equity Fund

    7%  

•  AZL DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity Fund

    5%  

The AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund is a bond index fund, and the other four underlying funds are equity funds. Therefore, under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 60% of its assets in the underlying equity funds and approximately 40% of its assets in the underlying bond 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 shareholders 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.

AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund seeks to provide a market rate of return for a fixed income portfolio with low relative volatility of returns, and seeks to focus the eligible universe on securities with relatively less expected upward or downward movement in market value. The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by generally investing in a universe of U.S. and foreign debt securities maturing in five years or less. The fund primarily invests in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. and foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, corporate debt obligations, bank obligations, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, obligations of other domestic and foreign issuers, securities of domestic or foreign issuers denominated in U.S. dollars but not trading in the United States, and obligations of supranational organizations. At the present time, the subadviser of the fund expects that most investments will be made in the obligations of issuers which are in developed countries. The fixed income securities in which the fund invests are considered investment grade at the time of purchase. Under normal market conditions, the fund intends to invest its assets to gain exposure to issuers of at least three different countries, one of which may be the United States. An issuer may be considered to be of a country if it is organized, has substantial assets, or derives substantial operating income in that country. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities that mature within five years from the date of settlement.

AZL DFA U.S. Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund purchases a broad and diverse group of securities of U.S. companies with a greater emphasis on small capitalization, value and high profitability companies as compared to their representation in the U.S. Universe. The subadviser generally defines the U.S. Universe as a free float adjusted market capitalization weighted portfolio of U.S. operating companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), NYSE American LLC, Nasdaq Global Market®, Nasdaq Capital Market®, or such other securities exchanges deemed appropriate by the subadviser. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of U.S. companies.

AZL DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund, using a market capitalization weighted approach, purchases a broad and diverse group of readily marketable securities of U.S. small-cap companies. A company’s market capitalization is the number of its shares outstanding times its price per share. In general, the higher the relative market capitalization of the U.S. small-cap company, the greater its representation in the fund. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in securities of small-cap U.S. companies.

 

 

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AZL DFA International Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund purchases a broad and diverse group of securities of non-U.S. companies in developed markets with a greater emphasis on small capitalization, value and high profitability companies as compared to their representation in the International Universe. For purposes of this fund, the subadviser defines the International Universe as a market capitalization weighted portfolio of non-U.S. companies in developed markets. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities.

AZL DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund purchases a broad and diverse group of securities associated with emerging markets, as designated by the subadviser, which may include frontier markets (emerging market countries in an earlier stage of development), with a greater emphasis on small capitalization, value and high profitability companies. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in emerging markets equity investments.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate at least 80% of its assets to the underlying funds described above. Up to 20% of the Fund’s assets may be invested in equity and/or fixed income futures, such as S&P 500 Index futures and U.S. Treasury futures, which generally are liquid. Except during periods of high market volatility, the Manager expects that 95% of assets will be invested in the underlying funds and 5% will be invested in futures. The futures strategy, called the MVP risk management process, seeks to reduce the volatility of the Fund. Volatility refers to the amount by which the price of an investment can change over a period of time. High volatility indicates that the price has changed significantly, up or down, over a short time period; lower volatility indicates that the price is not changing dramatically, but at a steady pace over a period of time. Generally, higher volatility is considered to be more risky.

The goal of the MVP process is to achieve Fund volatility at or below 12% on an annualized basis over a full business cycle by either increasing or decreasing the exposure to equities over time. The Fund seeks to accomplish this primarily by selling equity index futures when markets experience heightened volatility, and by buying equity index futures when markets experience normal or lower levels of volatility. Futures provide the Manager an effective method to reduce volatility of the Fund and limit the need to decrease or increase allocations to the underlying funds. As a result, the MVP process could cause the equity exposure of the Fund to fluctuate significantly but it will generally not be lower than 10%. The MVP process would generally not reduce equity exposure during periods of moderate and low market volatility but during periods of extreme market volatility the MVP process could result in Fund equity exposure that is significantly lower than 10%.

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.

The following is a summary of the principal risks to which the Fund’s portfolio as a whole is subject. If changes occur in a Fund’s portfolio holdings, the extent to which the portfolio is subject to each of these risks may also change.

•   Allocation Risk  The risk associated with the Manager’s decisions regarding how the Fund’s assets should be allocated among the various underlying funds and to futures, which could cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives. There can be no guarantee that investment decisions made by the Manager will produce the desired results. Further, because the Manager has limited discretion to change the underlying fund allocations or futures allocations under normal market conditions, the Fund might underperform comparable funds of funds for which the fund’s manager has such discretion to adjust allocations.
•   Futures Risk  Because the Fund may utilize futures pursuant to its MVP risk management process, the Fund also is subject to derivatives risk, including risks related to futures. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks that may be different from or greater than the risks associated with investing directly in securities or other traditional investments. The value of futures contracts depend primarily upon the price of the securities, indexes, commodities, currencies or other instruments underlying them. Price movements are also influenced by, among other things, interest rates, changing supply and demand relationships, trade, fiscal, monetary, and exchange control programs and policies of governments, and national and international political and economic events and policies. The cost of futures may also be related, in part, to the degree of volatility of the underlying indices, securities, currencies, or other assets. Accordingly, futures on highly volatile indices, securities, currency, or other assets may be more expensive than futures on other investments. Changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and the Fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Further, in some market conditions the Fund may either underperform or outperform as a direct result of the MVP process. The Fund may, for example, outperform in downward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low) and underperform in upward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low).

 

 

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•   Quantitative Investing Risk  The value of securities selected using quantitative analysis can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than the market as a whole or securities selected using only fundamental analysis. The factors used in quantitative analysis and the weight placed on those factors may not be predictive of a security’s value. In addition, factors that affect a security’s value can change over time and these changes may not be reflected in the quantitative model. The MVP risk management process uses quantitative analysis.
•   Fund of Funds Risk  The Fund, as a shareholder of the underlying funds, indirectly bears its proportionate share of any investment management fees and other expenses of the underlying funds. Further due to the fees and expenses paid by the Fund, as well as small variations in the Fund’s actual allocations to the underlying funds and any futures and cash held in the Fund’s portfolio, the performance and income distributions of the Fund will not be the same as the performance and income distributions of the underlying funds allocated according to the target allocations described here.

In addition, the Fund bears the investment risks of the investments of the underlying funds. The principal risks of the underlying funds are:

•   Market Risk  The market value of portfolio securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably.
•   Issuer Risk  The value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer of the security.
•   Selection Risk  Because each underlying fund is actively managed, there can be no guarantee that investment decisions made for the funds will produce the desired results.
•   Value Stocks Risk  Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and following a value-oriented investment strategy may cause an underlying fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.
•   Capitalization Risk  Investing in small- to mid-sized companies creates risk because smaller companies may have unpredictable or limited earnings, and their securities may be less liquid or experience more volatile prices than those of large companies.
•   Foreign Risk  Investing in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involves a number of risks, such as fluctuations in currency values, adverse political, social or economic developments, and differences in social and economic developments or policies.
•   Depositary Receipt Risk  Depositary receipts involve many of the same risks as those associated with direct investment in foreign securities. Investing in these instruments may expose a fund to credit risk with respect to the issuer of the depositary receipt, in addition to the risks of the underlying investment.
•   Emerging Markets Risk  Emerging markets may have less developed or more volatile trading markets, less developed legal and accounting systems, and greater likelihood of government restrictions, nationalization, or confiscation than developed countries. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries.
•   Currency Risk  Investing in securities that trade in and receive revenues in foreign currencies creates risk because foreign currencies may decline relative to the U.S. dollar, resulting in a potential loss to a fund.
•   Derivatives Risk  Investing in derivative instruments involves risks that may be different from or greater than the risks associated with investing directly in securities or other traditional investments. Derivatives are subject to a number of other risks, such as liquidity risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, and selection risk. Derivatives also involve the risk of mispricing or improper valuation and the risk that changes in the value may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate, or index. Using derivatives may result in losses, possibly in excess of the principal amount invested.
•   Credit Risk  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 Fund’s earnings.
•   Liquidity Risk  An investment that is difficult to purchase or sell may have an adverse effect on the Fund’s returns.
•   Interest Rate Risk  Debt securities held by the Fund may decline in value due to rising interest rates. Interest rates in the U.S. have been gradually increasing and are expected to continue on this path in the near term, which could expose the Fund to Interest Rate Risk.
•   Income Risk  Falling interest rates may cause the Fund’s income to decline.
•   Portfolio Turnover  The Fund may trade its portfolio securities frequently, which could result in higher transaction costs and could adversely affect the Fund’s performance.
•   Sovereign Debt Risk  Sovereign debt instruments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity’s debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies.

 

 

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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-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500 Index. The Fund’s performance also is compared to the Bloomberg Barclays 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 Multi-Strategy 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 Barclays 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.

Performance Bar Chart and Table

Calendar Year Total Return

 

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

 

Highest (Q4, 2017)

     3.48%  

Lowest (Q2, 2016)

     1.24%  

Average Annual Total Returns

 

     One Year Ended
December 31, 2017
       Since Inception
(4/27/2015)
 
AZL® MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund      12.55%          5.88%  
S&P 500 Index*      21.83%          11.60%  
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index*      3.54%          1.82%  
Multi-Strategy Composite Index*      14.26%          7.70%  

 

* Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.

 

 

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Management

Allianz Investment Management LLC (the “Manager”) serves as the investment adviser to the Fund.

The Fund’s portfolio managers, since April 2015, are: Brian Muench, CFA, president of the Manager and portfolio manager; Mark Glad, portfolio manager, since April 2013, and Brian Mong, CFA, portfolio manager, since October 2016.

 

Tax Information

Shares of the Funds are sold exclusively to the separate accounts of certain insurance companies in connection with particular variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts (the “Contracts”). Provided that a Fund and a separate account investing in the Fund satisfy applicable tax requirements, any distributions from the Fund to the separate account will be exempt from current federal income taxation to the extent that such distributions accumulate in the Contract. You should refer to your Contract prospectus for further information regarding the tax treatment of the Contract and the separate accounts in which the Contract is invested.

 

Financial Intermediary Compensation

Shares of the Funds are sold exclusively to certain insurance companies in connection with particular Contracts. The Trust and its related companies may pay such insurance companies (or their related companies) for the sale of shares of the Funds and related services. Such insurance companies (or their related companies) may pay broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries (such as banks) that sell the Contracts for the sale of shares of the Funds and related services. When received by an insurance company, such payments may be a factor that the insurance companies consider in including a Fund as an investment option in the Contracts. The prospectus or other disclosures relating to a Contract may contain additional information about these payments. When received by a broker-dealer or other intermediary, such payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and salespersons to recommend the Fund over other mutual funds available as investment options in the Contracts. Ask the salesperson or visit the financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

 

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