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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 6pt;">Supplement dated May 14, 2013</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt;">to the Prospectus and Statement of Information (SAI), as supplemented, of the following fund:</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; width: 1289.28125px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; empty-cells: show; margin-left: 14.6875px; margin-top: 6pt; width: 1267px;"><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 9pt 5pt 6pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;">Fund</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 9pt 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 179px;">Prospectus Dated</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 12pt 5pt 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 99px;">SAI Dated</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 5pt 9pt 4.5pt 6pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;">Columbia Funds Series Trust II</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 4.5pt; padding-right: 9pt; padding-top: 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 191px;"> </td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 4.5pt; padding-right: 12pt; padding-top: 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 111px;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 9pt 4pt 15pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;"> Columbia Seligman Communications & Information Fund</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 9pt 4pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 179px;">10/1/2012</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 12pt 4pt 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 99px;">3/19/2013</td></tr></table></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 9pt; text-align: left;">At the adjourned Special Meeting of Shareholders held on May 13, 2013, shareholders of the Fund approved a proposal to change the classification of the Fund from a “diversified” fund to a “non-diversified” fund, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">Accordingly, the following revisions to the Fund’s prospectus are made effective immediately:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; font-style: line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund, in the sections entitled “Summary of the Fund” and “More Information About the Fund” are hereby revised to include the following information:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in a single issuer than can a diversified fund.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; font-style: line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund, in the “Summary of the Fund” and “More Information About the Fund” sections, are hereby revised to include the following information:</div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">Non-Diversified Fund Risk. <font style="font-weight: normal;">The Fund is non-diversified, which generally means that it will invest a greater percentage of its total assets in the securities of fewer issuers than a “diversified” fund. This increases the risk that a change in the value of any one investment held by the Fund could affect the overall value of the Fund more than it would affect that of a diversified fund holding a greater number of investments. Accordingly, the Fund's value will likely be more volatile than the value of a more diversified fund.</font></div></div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 6pt;">Supplement dated May 14, 2013</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt;">to the Prospectus and Statement of Information (SAI), as supplemented, of the following fund:</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; width: 1289.28125px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; empty-cells: show; margin-left: 14.6875px; margin-top: 6pt; width: 1267px;"><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 9pt 5pt 6pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;">Fund</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 9pt 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 179px;">Prospectus Dated</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; padding: 3pt 12pt 5pt 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 99px;">SAI Dated</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 5pt 9pt 4.5pt 6pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;">Columbia Funds Series Trust II</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 4.5pt; padding-right: 9pt; padding-top: 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 191px;"> </td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 4.5pt; padding-right: 12pt; padding-top: 5pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 111px;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 9pt 4pt 15pt; vertical-align: bottom; width: 917px;"> Columbia Seligman Communications & Information Fund</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 9pt 4pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 179px;">10/1/2012</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 2pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 11pt; padding: 4.5pt 12pt 4pt 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; width: 99px;">3/19/2013</td></tr></table></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 9pt; text-align: left;">At the adjourned Special Meeting of Shareholders held on May 13, 2013, shareholders of the Fund approved a proposal to change the classification of the Fund from a “diversified” fund to a “non-diversified” fund, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">Accordingly, the following revisions to the Fund’s prospectus are made effective immediately:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; font-style: line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund, in the sections entitled “Summary of the Fund” and “More Information About the Fund” are hereby revised to include the following information:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in a single issuer than can a diversified fund.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; font-style: line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">The Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund, in the “Summary of the Fund” and “More Information About the Fund” sections, are hereby revised to include the following information:</div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 4pt; text-align: left;">Non-Diversified Fund Risk. <font style="font-weight: normal;">The Fund is non-diversified, which generally means that it will invest a greater percentage of its total assets in the securities of fewer issuers than a “diversified” fund. This increases the risk that a change in the value of any one investment held by the Fund could affect the overall value of the Fund more than it would affect that of a diversified fund holding a greater number of investments. Accordingly, the Fund's value will likely be more volatile than the value of a more diversified fund.</font></div></div>