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Great-West Moderately Conservative Profile II Fund
Initial Class Ticker: MXDPX
Class L Ticker: MXHPX
(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 income and capital appreciation primarily through investments in Underlying Funds (defined below) that emphasize fixed income investments and, to a lesser degree, in Underlying Funds that emphasize equity investments.

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.

Since the Fund pursues its investment objective by investing in other mutual funds, you will bear your proportionate share of the expenses of the Fund and indirectly, your proportionate share of the expenses (including operating costs and management fees) of the other funds in which it invests.

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
0.10%
0.10%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees
0.00%
0.25%
Other Expenses
0.00%
0.00%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses
0.78%
0.78%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses1
0.88%
1.13%
1 The Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses do not correlate to the ratio of expenses to average net assets provided in the Fund’s Financial Highlights, which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include Acquired Fund (Underlying Fund) Fees and Expenses.

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:


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Great-West Moderately Conservative Profile II Fund
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Initial Class
$90
$280
$487
$1,083
Class L
$115
$359
$622
$1,374

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 30% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies
The following is a summary of the principal investment strategies of the Fund:

The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing in a mix of mutual funds managed by Great-West Capital Management, LLC (“GWCM”) or its affiliates, and in a fixed interest contract issued and guaranteed by Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (the “GWL&A Contract”). The mutual funds and the GWL&A Contract are referred to as the “Underlying Funds.” The Fund has a primary emphasis on income and a secondary emphasis on growth of capital. GWCM uses asset allocation strategies to allocate assets among different broad asset classes and the Underlying Funds. The following table shows the Fund’s asset allocation ranges:
EQUITY
International
0-30%
Small Cap
0-15%
Mid Cap
0-25%
Large Cap
10-40%
 
Real Estate
0-10%
FIXED INCOME
Bond
20-40%
Short-Term Bond
10-30%
  
Each Underlying Fund has its own investment objectives and strategies and may hold a wide range of securities and other instruments in its portfolio, including, without limitation, U.S. and foreign equity securities (including those from emerging markets), real estate instruments, U.S. and foreign fixed income securities (including those rated below investment grade), derivatives, and short-term investments. The following table shows the Fund’s target allocation for the various asset classes listed above and the Underlying Funds in which the Fund expects to invest as of the date of this Prospectus:


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Large Cap
17.8%
International
10.5%
Great-West Multi-Manager Large Cap Growth Fund Initial
 
Great-West MFS International Growth Fund Initial
 
Great-West American Century Growth Fund Initial
 
Great-West MFS International Value Fund Initial
 
Great-West T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund Initial
 
Real Estate
4.5%
Great-West Putnam Equity Income Fund Initial
 
Great-West Real Estate Index Fund Initial
 
Mid Cap
8.5%
Bond
33.0%
Great-West T. Rowe Price Mid Cap Growth Fund Initial
 
Great-West U.S. Government Mortgage Securities Fund Initial
 
Great-West Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value Fund Initial
 
Great-West Federated Bond Fund Initial
 
Small Cap
3.7%
Great-West Templeton Global Bond Fund Initial
 
Great-West Small Cap Growth Fund Initial
 
Great-West Loomis Sayles Bond Fund Initial
 
Great-West Loomis Sayles Small Cap Value Fund Initial
 
Great-West Putnam High Yield Bond Fund Initial
 
Great-West Invesco Small Cap Value Fund Initial
 
Short-Term Bond
22.0%
 
 
GWL&A Contract
 

The Fund will automatically rebalance its holdings of the Underlying Funds on a monthly basis to maintain the appropriate asset allocations. GWCM reviews asset class allocations, Underlying Fund allocations, and the Underlying Funds themselves on a quarterly basis, or more frequently as deemed necessary. GWCM may add or delete asset classes, add or delete Underlying Funds, or change the asset allocations at any time and without shareholder notice or approval.

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

Fund-of-Funds Structure Risk
Since the Fund invests directly in the Underlying Funds, all risks associated with the eligible Underlying Funds apply to the Fund. To the extent the Fund invests more of its assets in one Underlying Fund than another, the Fund will have greater exposure to the risks of that Underlying Fund.

Since the Fund invests in Underlying Funds, you will bear your proportionate share of expenses of the Fund and indirectly of the Underlying Funds, resulting in an additional layer of expenses.

The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the 1940 Act, which means a relatively high percentage of its assets may be invested in securities of a limited number of Underlying Funds. As a result, the Fund’s securities may be more susceptible to any single economic, political or regulatory event than that experienced by a similarly structured diversified fund.

Single Issuer Risk - The GWL&A Contract in which the Fund invests has a stable principal value and pays a fixed rate of interest to the Fund. Both the principal and a minimum rate of interest are guaranteed by GWL&A. However, if GWL&A becomes unable to meet this guarantee, the Fund may lose money from unpaid principal or unpaid or reduced interest.

The following are risks associated with Underlying Fund investments that may indirectly result in a loss of your investment in a Fund. There can be no assurance that an Underlying Fund will achieve its investment objective.

Currency Exchange Rate Risk - Adverse fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. Dollar and other currencies may cause an Underlying Fund to lose money on investments denominated in foreign currencies. Currency risk is especially high in emerging markets.

Derivatives Risk - Using derivatives can disproportionately increase losses and reduce opportunities for gains when stock prices, currency rates or interest rates are changing. An Underlying Fund may not fully benefit from or may lose money on derivatives if changes in their value do not correspond accurately to changes in the value of the Underlying Fund’s holdings. The other parties

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to certain derivative contracts present the same types of credit risk as issuers of fixed income securities. Derivatives can also make a fund less liquid and harder to value, especially in declining markets.

Equity Securities Risk - The value of the stocks and other securities owned by the Underlying Funds will fluctuate depending on the performance of the companies that issued them, general market and economic conditions, and investor confidence.

Fixed Income Securities Risk - Investments in fixed income securities will be subject to interest rate risk (the chance that bond prices will decline because of rising interest rates), income risk (the chance that the Underlying Fund’s income will decline because of falling interest rates), credit risk (the chance that a bond issuer will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner, or that market perception of the issuer will cause the price of a bond to decline), and call/prepayment risk (the chance that bond issuers will redeem bonds prior to their maturity dates). Fixed income securities rated below investment grade (junk bonds) are highly speculative securities that are usually issued by smaller, less creditworthy, and/or highly leveraged (indebted) companies and their issuers are less likely to make payments of interest and repay principal.

Foreign Securities Risk - Foreign markets can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, currency valuation or economic developments. In addition, emerging markets may be more volatile and less liquid than the markets of more mature economies, and the securities of emerging markets issuers often are subject to rapid and large changes in price.
  
Geographic Concentration Risk - Geographic concentration risk is the risk that economic, political and social conditions in the countries or regions in which an Underlying Fund invests will have a significant impact on the performance of the Underlying Fund.

Investment Style Risk - Because the Fund invests in Underlying Funds with both growth and value characteristics, its share price may be negatively affected if either investing approach falls out of favor.
 
Liquidity Risk - Underlying Funds may invest in securities that cannot be sold, or cannot be sold quickly, at an acceptable price. Liquidity risk may also refer to the risk that an Underlying Fund will not be able to pay redemption proceeds within the normal time period because of unusual market conditions, an unusually high volume of redemption requests, or other reasons. To meet redemption requests, an Underlying Fund may be required to sell liquid securities at an unfavorable time.

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

Market Risk - 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, industry sector of the economy or the market as a whole.

Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities Risk - Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities represent interests in "pools" of mortgages and other assets, including consumer loans or receivables held in trust. Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are subject to interest rate risk and credit risk. These securities are also subject to the risk that borrowers will prepay the principal on their loans more quickly than expected (prepayment risk) or more slowly than expected (extension risk), which will affect the yield, average life and price of the securities. In addition, faster than expected prepayments may cause the Underlying Fund to invest the prepaid principal in lower yielding securities, and slower than expected prepayments may reduce the potential for the Underlying Fund to invest in higher yielding securities.

Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) / Real Estate Risk - Investments in real estate related instruments may be affected by economic, legal, cultural, environmental or technological factors that affect property values, rents or occupancies of real estate.

Small, Medium and Large 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. Companies with large market capitalizations go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions, and could underperform returns of smaller companies.

Sovereign Debt Securities Risk - Sovereign debt securities are subject to various risks in addition to those relating to debt securities and foreign securities generally, including, but not limited to, the risk that a governmental entity may be unwilling or unable to pay interest and repay principal on its sovereign debt, or otherwise meet its obligations when due because of cash flow problems, insufficient foreign reserves, the relative size of the debt service burden to the economy as a whole, the government's policy towards principal international lenders such as the International Monetary Fund, or the political situations to which the government

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may be subject. If a sovereign debtor defaults (or threatens to default) on its sovereign debt obligations, the indebtedness may be restructured. Some sovereign debtors in the past have been able to restructure their debt payments without the approval of some or all debt holders or to declare moritoria on payments. In the event of a default on sovereign debt, the Underlying Fund may also have limited legal recourse against the defaulting government entity.

An investment in the Fund or Underlying Funds is not a deposit with a bank, is not insured, endorsed or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency, and is subject to the 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 past ten calendar years and by comparing the Fund’s average annual total return to the performance of broad-based securities market indices and a Composite Index which has investment characteristics similar to those of the Fund. The Composite Index is derived by applying the Fund’s target asset allocation among the asset classes over time to the results of the following indexes: the Wilshire 5000 Index (U.S. equities); the MSCI EAFE® Index (international equities); the Dow Jones U.S. Select REIT IndexSM (real estate); the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (bonds); and the Barclays 1-3 Yr Credit Bond Index (short-term bonds). The returns shown below are historical and are not an indication of future performance. Total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gain 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


 
Quarter Ended
Total Return
Best Quarter
June 2009
12.07%
Worst Quarter
December 2008
-9.41%

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


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One Year
Five Years
Ten Years/Since Inception
Great-West Moderately Conservative Profile II Fund Initial Class
12.03%
10.87%
6.48%
Great-West Moderately Conservative Profile II Fund Class L
11.62%
-
7.83%*
Wilshire 5000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
33.06%
18.58%
7.97%
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
-2.02%
4.44%
4.55%
Composite Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
11.21%
10.13%
5.84%
Wilshire 5000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
33.06%
-
17.97%*
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
-2.02%
-
2.49%*
Composite Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
11.21%
-
7.89%*
*Since inception on July 29, 2011

Investment Adviser
Great-West Capital Management, LLC (GWCM)

Portfolio Managers
Name
Title
Length of Service as Manager of Fund
Catherine Tocher, CFA
Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
2014
S. Mark Corbett, CFA
Executive Vice President & Global Chief Investment Officer
1999
David McLeod
Senior Vice President & Managing Director
2014
Jonathan Kreider, CFA
Portfolio Manager
2014
Thone Gdovin, CFA
Portfolio Manager
2014
Andrew Corwin
Assistant Portfolio Manager
2014
 
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 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

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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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