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Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Investment Objective
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund (the "Fund") seeks to maximize total return while providing high current income and capital appreciation. The Fund's investment objective may be changed without shareholder approval.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.
SHAREHOLDER FEES
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed On Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the net asset value at time of purchase or redemption, whichever is lower)
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of
the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund
Management Fees none
Distribution and Shareholder Service (12b-1) Fees none
Other Expenses 0.09% [1]
Acquired Fund (Underlying Fund) Fees and Expenses 0.01% [2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.10%
[1] These expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
[2] Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
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 $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual cost may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your cost would be:
Expense Example
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Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund | Thrivent Core Emerging Markets Debt Fund | USD ($) 10 32
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 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. Because the Fund had not yet commenced operations prior to the date of this prospectus, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate for the most recent fiscal year end is not yet available.
Principal Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in sovereign and corporate debt securities of issuers in emerging market countries. An “emerging market” country is any country determined by Thrivent Asset Management, LLC (“Thrivent Asset Mgt.” or the “Adviser”) to have an emerging market economy, considering factors such as the country’s credit rating, its political and economic stability and the development of its financial and capital markets. These emerging market countries include every nation in the world except the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most nations located in Western Europe. At times, the Fund may have a significant amount of its assets invested in a particular country or geographic region. The Fund will primarily invest in the emerging market sovereign debt of countries in its benchmark, but will also invest in the sovereign debt, quasi-sovereign debt and corporate bonds of emerging market countries outside of the benchmark where the Adviser finds attractive opportunities. As a non-diversified fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“the “1940 Act”), the Fund focuses its investments in the securities of a relatively few number of issuers. The Fund generally invests only in U.S. dollar-denominated securities, but may invest in securities denominated in foreign currency.

The Fund may invest in investment-grade and high yield (i.e., “junk bond”) securities, which may include the lowest-rated bonds, including those in default.

The Fund may invest in derivatives or other investments whose return is based on the return of an emerging market security, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). The Fund expects to use these derivatives or other instruments primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market, segment of the market, country, or security and to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure. These derivatives and other instruments may include futures, forward contracts, options, structured securities and credit default swap agreements. The Fund may enter into standardized derivatives contracts traded on domestic or foreign securities exchanges, boards of trade, or similar entities, and non-standardized derivatives contracts traded in the over-the-counter market. ETFs are investment companies generally designed to track the performance of a securities or other index, including industry, sector, country and region indexes.

The Adviser uses fundamental, quantitative, and technical investment research techniques and seeks to maximize the Fund’s total return through fundamental economic analysis and an assessment of a country’s political situation to determine the creditworthiness, riskiness, and relative value of an issuer’s debt.

Should the Adviser determine that the Fund would benefit from reducing the percentage of its net assets invested in emerging market sovereign and corporate debt securities from 80% to a lesser amount, it will notify you at least 60 days prior to the change.
Principal Risks
The Fund is subject to the following principal investment risks. Shares of the Fund will rise and fall in value and there is a risk that you could lose money by investing in the Fund. The Fund cannot be certain that it will achieve its investment objective.

Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a debt security to which the Fund's portfolio is exposed may no longer be able or willing to pay its debt. As a result of such an event, the debt security may decline in price and affect the value of the Fund.

Derivatives Risk. The use of derivatives (such as futures and swaps) involves additional risks and transaction costs which could leave the Fund in a worse position than if it had not used these instruments. The use of derivatives can lead to losses because of adverse movements in the price or value of the underlying asset, index or rate, which may be magnified by certain features of the contract. Changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate as intended with the underlying asset, rate or index, and the Fund could lose much more than the original amount invested. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value. Derivatives are also subject to the risk that the other party in the transaction will not fulfill its contractual obligations.

Emerging Markets Risk. The economic and political structures of developing countries, in most cases, do not compare favorably with the U.S. or other developed countries in terms of wealth and stability, and their financial markets often lack liquidity. Fund performance will likely be negatively affected by portfolio exposure to countries in the midst of, among other things, hyperinflation, currency devaluation, trade disagreements, sudden political upheaval, or interventionist government policies. Significant buying or selling actions by a few major investors may also heighten the volatility of emerging markets. These factors make investing in emerging market countries significantly riskier than in other countries, and events in any one country could cause the Fund’s share price to decline.

ETF Risk. An ETF is subject to the risks of the underlying investments that it holds. In addition, for index-based ETFs, the performance of an ETF may diverge from the performance of such index (commonly known as tracking error). ETFs are subject to fees and expenses (like management fees and operating expenses) that do not apply to an index, and the Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any such fees and expenses paid by the ETFs in which it invests.

Foreign Securities Risk. Foreign securities are generally more volatile than their domestic counterparts, in part because of higher political and economic risks, lack of reliable information and fluctuations in currency exchange rates. Foreign securities may also be more difficult to resell than comparable U.S. securities because the markets for foreign securities are often less liquid. Even when a foreign security increases in price in its local currency, the appreciation may be diluted by adverse changes in exchange rates when the security’s value is converted to U.S. dollars. Foreign withholding taxes also may apply and errors and delays may occur in the settlement process for foreign securities. All of these risks may be heightened for securities of issuers located in, or with significant operations in, emerging market countries.

High Yield Risk. High yield securities – commonly known as “junk bonds” – to which the Fund's portfolio is exposed are considered predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s continuing ability to make principal and interest payments. If the issuer of the security is in default with respect to interest or principal payments, the value of the Fund may be negatively affected.

Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk is the risk that bond prices decline in value when interest rates rise for bonds that pay a fixed rate of interest. Bonds with longer durations or maturities tend to be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than bonds with shorter durations or maturities. In addition, both mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are sensitive to changes in the repayment patterns of the underlying security. If the principal payment on the underlying asset is repaid faster or slower than the holder of the asset-backed or mortgage-backed security anticipates, the price of the security may fall, particularly if the holder must reinvest the repaid principal at lower rates or must continue to hold the security when interest rates rise. This effect may cause the value of the Fund to decline and reduce the overall return of the Fund. Changes by the Federal Reserve to monetary policies could affect interest rates and the value of some securities.

Investment Adviser Risk. The Fund is actively managed and the success of its investment strategy depends significantly on the skills of the Adviser in assessing the potential of the investments in which the Fund invests. This assessment of investments may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance, even in rising markets.

Issuer Risk. Issuer risk is the possibility that factors specific to a company to which the Fund's portfolio is exposed will affect the market prices of the company’s securities and therefore the value of the Fund.

Liquidity Risk. Liquidity is the ability to sell a security relatively quickly for a price that most closely reflects the actual value of the security. Certain securities (e.g., foreign securities, including emerging markets bonds, and high yield bonds) generally have a less liquid resale market. In addition, dealer inventories of bonds are at or near historic lows in relation to market size, which has the potential to decrease liquidity and increase price volatility in the fixed income markets, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. As a result, the Adviser may have difficulty selling or disposing of securities quickly in certain markets or may only be able to sell the holdings at prices substantially less than what the Adviser believes they are worth.

Market Risk. Over time, securities markets generally tend to move in cycles with periods when security prices rise and periods when security prices decline. The value of the Fund’s investments may move with these cycles and, in some instances, increase or decrease more than the applicable market(s) as measured by the Fund’s benchmark index(es). The securities markets may also decline because of factors that affect a particular industry.

Non-Diversified Risk. The Fund is not “diversified” within the meaning of the 1940 Act. That means the Fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of any single issuer compared to other funds. A non-diversified portfolio is generally more susceptible than a diversified portfolio to the risk that events or developments affecting a particular issuer or industry will significantly affect the Fund’s performance.

Portfolio Turnover Rate Risk. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities in implementing its principal investment strategies. A high rate of portfolio turnover (100% or more) involves correspondingly greater expenses which are borne by the Fund and its shareholders and may also result in short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders.

Sovereign Debt Risk. Sovereign debt securities are issued or guaranteed by foreign governmental entities. These investments 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.

Volatility Risk. Volatility risk is the risk that certain types of securities shift in and out of favor depending on market and economic conditions as well as investor sentiment. Bonds may exhibit price fluctuations due to changes in interest rates or bond yield levels.
Volatility and Performance
No performance information for the Fund is provided because it commenced operations on September 5, 2017. Call (800) THRIVENT (847-4836) for performance results current to the most recent month-end that takes place after September 5, 2017.

How a Fund has performed in the past is not necessarily an indication of how it will perform in the future.