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Dunham Large Cap Value Fund
Dunham Large Cap Value Fund
Investment Objective:

The Fund seeks to maximize total return from capital appreciation and dividends.

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. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on purchases of Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in How to Purchase Shares on page 89 of the Fund's Prospectus and in How to Buy and Sell Shares on page 88 of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees - Dunham Large Cap Value Fund
Class A
Class C
Class N
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a % of offering price) 5.75% none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of the original purchase price for purchases of $1 million or more) 0.75% none none
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and other Distributions none none none
Redemption Fee none none none
Exchange Fee none none none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Dunham Large Cap Value Fund
Class A
Class C
Class N
Management Fees [1] 0.87% 0.87% 0.87%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees 0.25% 1.00% none
Other Expenses 0.27% 0.27% 0.27%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.39% 2.14% 1.14%
[1] The Sub-Advisory Fee is a fulcrum fee with a base or a fulcrum fee of 30 bps (0.30%) and can range from 0.10% to 0.50% based on the Fund’s performance relative to the Russell 1000 Value Index, the Fund’s benchmark.
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 and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - Dunham Large Cap Value Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A 708 990 1,292 2,148
Class C 217 670 1,149 2,472
Class N 116 362 628 1,386
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 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 44% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies:

The Fund's Sub-Adviser seeks to achieve the Fund's investment objective by investing primarily in value-oriented, large capitalization or "large cap" common stocks of companies traded on U.S. stock exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets (defined as net assets plus borrowing for investment purposes) in the common stock of large cap companies. The Fund defines large capitalization companies as those companies whose market capitalizations are equal to or greater than the smallest company in the Russell 1000® Index during the most recent 12-month period. For the most recent annual reconstitution published as of June 2019, the market capitalization range of companies in the Russell 1000® Index was approximately $1.03 billion to $1.04 trillion, which range will vary daily.


The Sub-Adviser focuses on large capitalization value stocks it believes are statistically undervalued while exhibiting attractive earnings dynamics. In general, the Sub-Adviser buys securities that it believes are undervalued and have better than average valuation as measured by statistics such as price to earnings or price to cash flow, and sells them when they become fully valued or more compelling investments are available.

 

The Fund may also engage in securities lending.

Principal Investment Risks:

As with all mutual funds, there is the risk that you could lose money through your investment in the Fund. Although the Fund will strive to meet its investment objective, there is no assurance that it will do so. Many factors affect the Fund's net asset value and performance.

 

Large Cap Stock Risk  Because the investment focus of the Fund is on large cap stocks, the value of the Fund may be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole. 

 

Stock Market Risk – Stock markets can be volatile. In other words, the prices of stocks can fall rapidly in response to developments affecting a specific company or industry, or to changing economic, political or market conditions. The Fund's investments may decline in value if the stock markets perform poorly.

  

Financials Sector Risk – Performance of companies in the financials sector may be adversely impacted by many factors, including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The extent to which the Fund may invest in a company that engages in securities-related activities or banking is limited by applicable law. The impact of changes in capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company, or of the financials sector as a whole, cannot be predicted.

 

Management Risk – The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Sub-Adviser's judgments about the attractiveness, "value" and potential appreciation of securities may prove to be inaccurate and may not produce the desired results. The Sub-Adviser will apply its investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there is no guarantee that its decisions will produce the intended result. The successful use of hedging and risk management techniques may be adversely affected by imperfect correlation between movements in the price of the hedging vehicles and the securities being hedged.

 

Securities Lending Risk – The risk of securities lending is that the financial institution that borrows securities from the Fund could go bankrupt or otherwise default on its commitment under the securities lending agreement and the Fund might not be able to recover the loaned securities or their value.

Performance:

The following bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the performance of Class N Shares of the Fund from year to year and by showing how the Fund's Class A, Class C and Class N average annual returns compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. The Class A sales charge is reflected in the average annual total return table. Past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how a Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at no cost by visiting www.dunham.com or by calling toll free (888) 3DUNHAM (338-6426).

Class N Shares Annual Total Return for Years Ended December 31  
Bar Chart

During the periods shown in the bar chart, the highest return for a quarter was 12.39% (quarter ended March 31, 2012) and the lowest return for a quarter was -15.63% (quarter ended September 30, 2011).

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN For the periods ended December 31, 2019
Average Annual Total Returns - Dunham Large Cap Value Fund
Label
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Class N return before taxes 26.03% 7.59% 10.20%
Class N | return after taxes on distributions return after taxes on distributions                               25.05% 5.55% 9.01%
Class N | return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares return after taxes on distributions and sale of Fund shares 16.11% 5.51% 8.12%
Class C return before taxes 24.85% 6.53% 9.11%
Class A return before taxes 18.51% 6.06% 9.28%
Russell 1000 ® Value Index Russell 1000® Value Index 26.54% 8.29% 11.80%
Morningstar Large Cap Value Category Morningstar Large Cap Value Category (return before taxes) 25.04% [1] 7.99% [1] 10.90% [1]
[1] The Morningstar Large Cap Value Category is generally representative of mutual funds that primarily invest in big (large capitalization) U.S. companies that are less expensive or growing more slowly than other large-cap stocks.

After-tax returns are estimated, and are based on the highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes; actual after-tax returns depend on an individual investor's tax situation and are likely to differ from those shown. If you own shares of the Fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information is not applicable to your investment, because such accounts are only subject to taxes upon distribution. After tax returns for Class C and Class A shares, which are not shown, will vary from those of Class N shares.