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Great-West Large Cap Growth Fund
Fund Summary
Investment Objective
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
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. This table does not reflect the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If the fees and expenses imposed by a Permitted Account were reflected, the fees and expenses shown below would be higher.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Great-West Large Cap Growth Fund
Institutional Class
Investor Class
Class L
Management Fees 0.64% 0.64% 0.64%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees none none 0.25%
Total Other Expenses 0.01% 0.38% 0.38%
Shareholder Services Fees none 0.35% 0.35%
Other Expenses [1] 0.01% 0.03% 0.03%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.65% 1.02% 1.27%
Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement [2] none 0.02% 0.02%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement 0.65% 1.00% 1.25%
[1] Other Expenses are estimated for Class L shares because the class has not yet commenced operations.
[2] GWCM has contractually agreed to waive management fees or reimburse expenses if total annual fund operating expenses of any Class exceed 0.65% of the Class's average daily net assets, excluding Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees, Shareholder Services Fees, brokerage expenses, taxes, dividend interest on short sales, interest expenses, and any extraordinary expenses, including litigation costs (the "Expense Limit"). The agreement's current term ends on April 30, 2021 and automatically renews for one-year terms unless it is terminated by Great-West Funds or GWCM upon written notice within 90 days of the end of the current term or upon termination of the investment advisory agreement. Under the agreement, GWCM may recoup, subject to Board approval, these waivers and reimbursements in future periods, not exceeding three years following the particular waiver/reimbursement, provided Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses of the Class plus such recoupment do not exceed the lesser of the Expense Limit that was in place at the time of the waiver/reimbursement or the Expense Limit in place at the time of recoupment.
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 the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account were reflected, the fees and expenses in the Example would be higher.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and applies whether you hold or redeem all of your shares at the end of each period. The Example also assumes that the Expense Limit is in place for the first year, that your investment has a 5% return each year, that all dividends and capital gains are reinvested, and that the Fund’s operating expenses are the amount shown in the fee table and remain the same for the years shown. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
Expense Example - Great-West Large Cap Growth Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Institutional Class 66 208 362 810
Investor Class 102 323 561 1,246
Class L 127 401 695 1,532
Expense Example, No Redemption - Great-West Large Cap Growth Fund - USD ($)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Institutional Class 66 208 362 810
Investor Class 102 323 561 1,246
Class L 127 401 695 1,532
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 generally indicates 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 32% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
Below is a summary of the principal investment strategies of the Fund.

The Fund will, under normal circumstances, invest 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities selected for their growth potential with market capitalizations of $4 billion or more at the time of purchase. If the market capitalization of a company held by the Fund moves outside this range, the Fund may, but is not required to, sell the securities. The Fund may invest in foreign securities, which may include investments in emerging markets, without limit within the parameters of the Fund’s specific investment policies. The Fund may also hold cash or other short-term investments. Derivatives, which are instruments that have a value based on another instrument, exchange rate or index, may be used as substitutes for securities in which the Fund can invest. To the extent the Fund uses derivatives, the Fund will primarily use futures contracts to more effectively gain targeted equity exposure from its cash positions.

The Fund’s investment portfolio is managed by two sub-advisers: Amundi Pioneer Asset Management, Inc. (“Amundi Pioneer”) and J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (“JPMorgan”) (each, a “Sub-Adviser,” and collectively, the “Sub-Advisers”). The Sub-Advisers seek to invest in securities of issuers with above average potential for growth.

GWCM maintains a strategic asset allocation of the Fund’s assets with each Sub-Adviser and reviews the asset allocations on a quarterly basis, or more frequently as deemed necessary. As of the date of this Prospectus, the target asset allocation is a 50% allocation of the Fund’s assets to Amundi Pioneer and a 50% allocation of the Fund’s assets to JPMorgan. Notwithstanding the target allocation, GWCM may change the asset allocations at any time and without shareholder notice or approval.
Principal Investment Risks
Below is a summary of the principal investment risks of investing in the Fund. These risks are presented in an order that reflects GWCM’s current assessment of relative importance, but this assessment could change over time as the Fund’s portfolio changes or in light of changes in the market or the economic environment, among other things. The Fund is not required to and will not update this prospectus solely because its assessment of the relative importance of the principal risks of investing in the Fund changes.

Equity Securities Risk - The value of a company’s stock may fall as a result of factors which directly relate to that company, such as lower demand for the company’s products or services or poor management decisions. In addition, a company’s stock generally pays dividends only after the company makes required payments to holders of its bonds and other debt. For this reason, the value of the stock will usually react more strongly than bonds and other debt to actual or perceived changes in a company’s financial condition or progress.

Growth Stock Risk - Growth stocks can be volatile for several reasons. Since they usually reinvest a high proportion of earnings in their own business, they may not pay the dividends usually associated with value stocks that can cushion their decline in a falling market. Also, since investors buy these stocks because of the expected superior earnings growth, earnings disappointments may result in sharp price declines.

Market Risk - The value of the Fund's investments may decrease, sometimes rapidly or unexpectedly, due to factors affecting specific issuers held by the Fund, particular industries represented in the Fund's portfolio, or the overall securities markets. A variety of factors can increase the volatility of the Fund's holdings and markets generally, including political or regulatory developments, recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, war or acts of terrorism, natural disasters, outbreaks of infectious illnesses or other widespread public health issues, or adverse investor sentiment generally. Certain events may cause instability across global markets, including reduced liquidity and disruptions in trading markets, while some events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors, and industries more significantly than others. These adverse developments may cause broad declines in an issuer’s value due to short-term market movements or for significantly longer periods during more prolonged market downturns.

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.

Developing and Emerging Markets Risk – The risk that markets of developing and emerging market countries are less developed and less liquid, subject to greater price volatility and generally subject to increased economic, political, regulatory and other uncertainties than more developed markets.

Currency Risk - Adverse fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies may cause the Fund to lose money on investments denominated in foreign currencies.

Derivatives Risk - The Fund may invest in derivative instruments, including but not limited to, futures contracts. Using derivatives can disproportionately increase losses and reduce opportunities for gains when security prices, currency rates or interest rates are changing. The 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 Fund’s holdings. The other parties 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, and may increase the Fund’s volatility. There can be no assurance that the Fund’s use of derivative contracts will work as intended, and it is possible for the Fund to lose more than its original investment.

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

Multi-Manager Risk - Each Sub-Adviser makes investment decisions independently. It is possible that the Sub-Advisers’ security selection processes may not complement one another and the Fund may have buy and sell transactions in the same security on the same day.

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 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 Investor Class shares for the last ten calendar years and by comparing the Fund’s Institutional Class and Investor Class average annual total return to the performance of a broad-based securities market index and a secondary index. No Class L share performance data is provided because Class L shares have not commenced operations. Class L share performance information will appear in future versions of this Prospectus after Class L shares have annual returns for at least one complete calendar year. 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 the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account were reflected, the performance shown would be lower.

On September 1, 2013, the Fund replaced the prior sub-adviser with the current Sub-Advisers. Consequently, the Fund’s total returns shown below for the periods prior to September 1, 2013 are not necessarily indicative of the performance of the Fund, as it is currently managed.

Updated performance information may be obtained at www.greatwestfunds.com (the website does not form a part of this Prospectus).
Calendar Year Total Returns
Bar Chart
  Quarter Ended Total Return
Best Quarter March 2012 17.97%
Worst Quarter September 2011 -16.35%
Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2019
Average Annual Total Returns - Great-West Large Cap Growth Fund
One Year
Five Years
Ten Years
Since Inception
[1]
Inception Date
Institutional Class 36.78%   14.37% May 01, 2015
Institutional Class | Russell 1000® Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 36.39% 14.68%    
Institutional Class | S&P 500® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 31.49% 12.11%    
Investor Class 36.21% 13.76% 12.53%    
Investor Class | Russell 1000® Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 36.39% 14.63% 15.22%    
Investor Class | S&P 500® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 31.49% 11.70% 13.56%    
[1] Since inception on May 1, 2015