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Great-West Loomis Sayles Small Cap Value Fund
Initial Class Ticker: MXLSX
(the “Fund”)

Summary Prospectus
May 1, 2014
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 and other information about the Fund, including the Statement of Additional Information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at www.greatwestfunds.com/prospectus.html. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-866-831-7129 or by sending an email request to email@greatwestfunds.com. The current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated May 1, 2014, are incorporated by reference as a matter of law into this Summary Prospectus, which means they are legally part of this Summary Prospectus.
 
Fund shares are available only through investments in certain variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (“variable contracts”), individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”), qualified retirement plans (“retirement plans”) and college savings programs (collectively, “Permitted Accounts”). This Summary Prospectus is not intended for use by other investors. This Summary Prospectus should be read together with the prospectus or disclosure document for the Permitted Account.

Investment Objective
The Fund seeks long-term capital growth.

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. The table does not reflect the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If reflected, the expenses shown would be higher.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

 
Initial Class
Class L
Management Fees
1.00%
1.00%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees
0.00%
0.25%
Other Expenses
0.08%
0.30%1
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.08%
1.55%
1 Other expenses are estimated for Class L shares because the class has not yet commenced operations.

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 does not reflect the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If reflected, the expenses in the Example would be higher.

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, that all dividends and capital gains are reinvested, and that the Fund’s operating expenses are the amount shown in the fee table and remain the same for the years shown. 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
Initial Class
$110
$343
$595
$1,317
Class L
$158
$490
$845
$1,845

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 turnover rate was 27% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

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The Fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of companies with market capitalizations that fall within the capitalization range of the Russell 2000® Index ($3.5 million to $5.3 billion as of December 31, 2013), an index that tracks stocks of the 2000 smallest U.S. companies in the Russell 3000® Index, at the time of purchase.

The Fund seeks to build a core small-cap portfolio of common stocks of solid companies that the portfolio managers believe are under-valued in the market and have favorable prospects for recovery. Stocks may be under-valued due to negative investor sentiment, short-term fundamental problems, or investor misperceptions. The Fund will opportunistically invest in companies that have experienced business problems but which are believed to have favorable prospects for recovery. The Fund will invest the remainder of its available net assets in securities of companies with market capitalizations outside of the Russell 2000® Index market capitalization range.

Principal Investment Risks
The following is a summary of the principal investment risks of investing in the Fund:

Investment Style Risk - Returns from small- or mid-capitalization stocks and/or value stocks may trail returns from the overall stock market.

Management Risk - A strategy used by the portfolio managers may fail to produce the intended results.

Market Risk - Stock markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments in the U.S. and in other countries. Market risk may affect a single company, sector of the economy or the market as a whole.

Small and Medium Size Company Securities Risk - The stocks of small and medium size companies often involve more risk and volatility than those of larger companies. Among other things, small and medium size companies are often dependent on a small number of products and have limited financial resources, and there is generally less publicly available information about them.

Value Stock Risk - The value investing approach carries the risk that the market will not recognize a security's intrinsic value for a long time, or that a stock judged to be undervalued may actually be appropriately priced.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit with a bank, is not insured, endorsed or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency, and is subject to possible loss of your original investment.

Performance
The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risk of investment in the Fund by showing changes in the performance of the Fund’s Initial Class for the last ten calendar years and comparing its average annual total return to the performance of two broad-based securities market indices. No Class L share performance data is provided because Class L shares have not commenced operations.  Class L share performance will appear in a future version of this Prospectus after Class L shares have annual returns for one complete calendar year. Class L shares performance would be lower than Initial Class performance because of the 12b-1 fees applicable to Class L shares. The returns shown below are historical and are not an indication of future performance. Total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions and include the effect of the Fund’s recurring expenses, but do not include fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If those fees and expenses were reflected, the performance shown would have been lower.

Updated performance information may be obtained at www.greatwestfunds.com (the web site does not form a part of this Prospectus).

Calendar Year Total Returns

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Quarter Ended
Total Return
Best Quarter
September 2009
19.10%
Worst Quarter
December 2008
-24.16%

Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2013

 
One Year
Five Years
Ten Years
Initial Class
34.87%
19.41%
9.95%
Russell 2000®  Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
38.82%
20.08%
9.07%
Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
34.52%
17.64%
8.61%

Investment Adviser
Great-West Capital Management, LLC


Sub-Adviser
Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. (the “Sub-Adviser”)

Portfolio Managers

Name
Title
Length of Service as Manager of Fund
Joseph R. Gatz, CFA
Vice President
2000
Jeffrey Schwartz, CFA
Vice President
2012
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Permitted Accounts place orders to purchase and redeems shares of the Fund based on instructions received from owners of variable contracts or IRAs, or from participants of retirement plans or college savings programs. Please contact your registered representative, IRA custodian or trustee, retirement plan sponsor or administrator or college savings program for information

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concerning the procedures for purchasing and redeeming shares of the Fund. The Fund may stop offering shares completely or may offer shares only on a limited basis, for a period of time or permanently. The Fund or certain share classes of the Fund may not be offered in your state.
The Fund does not have any initial or subsequent investment minimums. However, Permitted Accounts may impose investment minimums.
Tax Information
The Fund intends to qualify as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). If the Fund qualifies as a regulated investment company and distributes its income as required by the Code, the Fund will not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that its net investment income and realized net capital gains are distributed to shareholders. Currently, Permitted Accounts generally are not subject to federal income tax on any Fund distributions. Owners of variable contracts, retirement plan participants, and IRA owners are also generally not subject to federal income tax on Fund distributions until such amounts are withdrawn from the variable contract, retirement plan or IRA. Distributions from a college savings program generally are not taxed provided that they are used to pay for qualified higher education expenses.
Payments to Insurers, Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
The Fund is not sold directly to the general public, but instead may be offered as an underlying investment for Permitted Accounts. The Fund and its related companies may make payments to insurance companies, broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for the sale of Fund shares and/or other services. These payments may be a factor that an insurance company, broker-dealer or other financial intermediary considers in including the Fund as an investment option in a Permitted Account. These payments also may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson, visit your financial intermediary’s Web site, or consult the variable contract prospectus for more information.


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