As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 21, 2022                         Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Minnesota (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 6311 (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) 41-1366075 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

5701 Golden Hills Drive

Minneapolis, MN 55416

(800) 950-5872

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

Erik T. Nelson, Esq.

Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

5701 Golden Hills Drive

Minneapolis, MN 55416

(763) 765-7453

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. [X]

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The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

PART I – PROSPECTUS

ALLIANZ Index Advantage+ NFSM VARIABLE ANNUITY CONTRACT

Issued by Allianz Life Variable Account B and Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life, we, us, our) 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We cannot sell Allianz Index Advantage+

NFSM Variable Annuity pursuant to this prospectus until the Registration Statement containing this prospectus filed

with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell the Contract and is

not soliciting an offer to buy the Contract in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

The variable annuity described in this prospectus is an individual flexible purchase payment index-linked variable deferred annuity contract (Contract). This prospectus describes the Contract between you, the Owner, and Allianz Life.

The Contract allows you to allocate your money (Purchase Payments) and any earnings among the Contract’s investment options, which currently include index-linked investment options (Index Options). The Contract also includes the AZL Government Money Market Fund, but you cannot allocate Purchase Payments to this fund.

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Index Options. Each Index Option is tied (or linked) to the performance of a specific market Index for a defined time period (Term). Each Index Option has a downside feature that provides limited protection against any negative Index rate of return (Index Return) that may be credited to your investment for a Term. Limited protection from negative Index Returns is provided by the Buffer for Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy, and by the Floor for the Index Guard Strategy. The Index Protection Strategy with Trigger provides 100% protection against negative Index Returns. Each Index Option also has an upside feature that puts an upper limit on positive Index Return that may be credited for a Term. The upper limit on positive Index Return is provided by the Cap for Index Performance Strategy and Index Guard Strategy; and the Trigger Rate for Index Precision Strategy and Index Protection Strategy with Trigger. Multi-year Term Index Options also have a Participation Rate that may allow you receive more than the positive Index Return.

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AZL Government Money Market Fund. The sole purpose of the AZL Government Money Market Fund is to hold Purchase Payments until they are transferred to the Index Options. The AZL Government Money Market Fund performance is based on the securities in which it invests.

We expect to add Index Options from time to time. We currently offer the following Index Options: Index Protection Strategy with Trigger 1-year Term with 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate; Index Precision Strategy 1-year Term with 10% Buffer and 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate; Index Guard Strategy 1-year Term with -10% Floor and 0.10% minimum Cap; Index Performance Strategy 1-year Term with 10% Buffer and 0.10% minimum Cap; Index Performance Strategy 3-year Term with 10% or 20% Buffer, 2% minimum Cap, and 100% minimum Participation Rate; and Index Performance Strategy 6-year Term with 10% Buffer, 5% minimum Cap, and 100% minimum Participation Rate.

Index-linked and variable annuity contracts are complex insurance and investment vehicles. You may lose money, including your principal investment and previously credited earnings. Contract fees and expenses could cause your losses to be greater than the downside protection of the Index Options. Your losses may be significant. Before you invest, be sure to ask your Financial Professional about the Contract’s features, benefits, risks, fees and expenses, whether the Contract is appropriate for you based upon your financial situation and objectives, and for a specific recommendation to purchase the Contract. The Contract’s risks are described in Risk Factors on page 18 of this prospectus.

Before the end of an Index Option’s Term, if you take any type of withdrawal, execute the Performance Lock feature, begin Annuity Payments, or if we pay a death benefit or deduct a fee or expense, we base the transaction on the interim value of your Index Option investment, which includes the Daily Adjustment. The Daily Adjustment fluctuates daily. With the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy the Daily Adjustment can be positive or negative. However, with the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger the Daily Adjustment cannot be negative. The Daily Adjustment could reflect significantly less gain, or more loss than we would apply to an Index Option at the end of a Term. If you select multiple multi-year Term Index Options, there may be no time that any such transaction can be performed without the application of at least one Daily Adjustment.

The Contract may be available through third-party financial advisers who charge a financial adviser fee for their services. If you choose to pay financial adviser fees from this Contract, the deduction of this financial adviser fee is in addition to this Contract’s fees and expenses, and the deduction is treated the same as any other withdrawal under the Contract. As such, withdrawals to pay financial adviser fees will be subject to withdrawal charges, will reduce the Contract Value, Cash Value, and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value (perhaps significantly), and may be subject to federal and state income taxes (including a 10% additional federal tax). A six-year withdrawal charge period applies to the initial and any additional

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Purchase Payment. Please consult with your Financial Professional before requesting us to pay financial adviser fees from this Contract rather than from other assets you may have.

All guarantees under the Contract, including index-linked returns (Performance Credits), are the obligations of Allianz Life and are subject to our claims-paying ability and financial strength.

Please read this prospectus before investing and keep it for future reference. The prospectus describes all material rights and obligations of purchasers under the Contract. It contains important information about the Contract and Allianz Life that you ought to know before investing including material state variations. Availability of Index Options may vary by financial intermediary. You can obtain information on which Index Options are available to you by calling (800) 624-0197, or from your Financial Professional. This prospectus is not offered in any state, country, or jurisdiction in which we are not authorized to sell the Contracts. You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to give you different information.

If you are a new investor in the Contract, you may cancel your Contract within 10 days of receiving it without paying fees or penalties. In some states, this cancellation period may be longer. Upon cancellation, you will receive either a full refund of the amount you paid with your application or your total Contract Value. If you have an Individual Retirement Annuity Contract, we refund the greater of Purchase Payments less withdrawals, or total Contract Value. You should review this prospectus, or consult with your Financial Professional, for additional information about the specific cancellation terms that apply.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. An investment in this Contract is not a deposit of a bank or financial institution and is not federally insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other federal government agency. An investment in this Contract involves investment risk including the possible loss of principal.

This prospectus is not intended to constitute a suitability recommendation or fiduciary advice.

Additional information about certain investment products, including variable annuities, has been prepared by the Securities & Exchange Commission’s (SEC) staff and is available at investor.gov.

Dated: May 1, 2023

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Glossary		5
Important Information You Should Consider About the Contract		10
Overview of the Contract		14
	What Is the Purpose of the Contract?	14
	What Are the Phases of the Contract?	15
	What Are the Contract’s Primary Features?	16
Fee Tables		17
	Transaction Expenses	17
	Annual Contract Expenses	18
	Annual Expenses of the AZL Government Money Market Fund	18
	Example	18
Risk Factors		18
	Liquidity Risks	18
	Risks of Investing in Securities	19
	Risk of Negative Returns	21
	Risks Associated with Calculation of Performance Credits	22
	Risks Associated with Performance Locks and Early Reallocations	22
	Substitution of an Index and Limitation on Further Investments	23
	Changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates	24
	Investment in Derivative Hedging Instruments	25
	Risks of Deducting Financial Adviser Fees from the Contract	25
	Our Financial Strength and Claims-Paying Ability	25
	Regulatory Protections	26
1.	The Contract	26
	When the Accumulation Phase Ends	27
	Financial Adviser Fees	27
	When the Contract Ends	28
2.	Ownership, Annuitant, Determining Life, Beneficiary, and Payee	29
	Owner	29
	Joint Owner	29
	Annuitant	29
	Determining Life (Lives)	29
	Beneficiary	30
	Payee	30
	Assignments, Changes of Ownership and Other Transfers of Contract Rights	30

3.	Purchasing the Contract	30
	Purchase Requirements	30
	Applications Sent Electronically	31
	Allocation of Purchase Payments and Contract Value Transfers	31
	Electronic Allocation Instructions	33
	Free Look/Right To Examine Period	33
4.	Valuing Your Contract	34
	Determining Variable Account Value	34
	How the Crediting Methods Work	35
	Comparing Crediting Methods	36
	Bar Chart Examples of Crediting Method Performance	38
	Determining Index Option Values	42
	Calculating Performance Credits	44
	Daily Adjustment	45
	Performance Locks and Early Reallocations	46
5.	AZL Government Money Market Fund	47
	Substitution and Limitation on Holdings	48
	Excessive Trading and Market Timing	48
	Voting Privileges	50
6.	Expenses	50
	Optional Benefit Additional Rider Fee	51
	Contract Maintenance Charge (Administrative Expenses)	52
	Withdrawal Charge	52
	Daily Adjustment Maximum Potential Loss	54
	Premium Tax	54
	Income Tax	54
	AZL Government Money Market Fund Expenses	54
7.	Access to Your Money	55
	Free Withdrawal Privilege	56
	Minimum Distribution Program and Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) Payments	56
	Waiver of Withdrawal Charge Benefit	56
	Suspension of Payments or Transfers	57
8.	The Annuity Phase	57
	Calculating Your Annuity Payments	57
	Annuity Payment Options	57
	When Annuity Payments Begin	58
9.	Benefits Available Under the Contract	59
10.	Death Benefit	62
	Maximum Anniversary Value	63
	Death of the Owner and/or Annuitant	65
	Death Benefit Payment Options During the Accumulation Phase	65
	Death Benefit Payment Options	65

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

11.	Taxes	66
	Annuity Contracts in General	66
	Qualified Contracts	66
	Summary of Individuals and Entities That Can Own a Qualified Contract	67
	Non-Qualified Contracts	67
	Non-Qualified Contracts Owned by Non-Individuals	67
	Taxation of Withdrawals	67
	10% Additional Federal Tax	68
	Non-Qualified Annuity Medicare Tax	69
	Payments for Financial Adviser Fees	69
	RMDs From Qualified Contracts	69
	Diversification	70
	Owner Control	70
	Taxation of Annuity Payments	70
	Distributions Upon the Owner’s Death (or Annuitant’s Death If the Owner Is a Non-individual)	70
	Tax-Free Section 1035 Exchanges	72
	Multiple Non-Qualified Contracts Purchased In the Same Year By the Same Owner	72
	Assignments, Pledges and Gratuitous Transfers	72
	Income Tax Withholding	73
	Federal Estate Taxes	73
	Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax	73
	Foreign Tax Credits	73
	Possible Tax Law Changes	73
12.	Other Information	73
	The Registered Separate Account	73
	Our General Account	74
	Our Unregistered Separate Account	74
	Distribution	74
	Additional Credits for Certain Groups	76
	Administration/Allianz Service Center	76
	Legal Proceedings	76
	Status Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act of 1934	76

13.	Information on Allianz Life	76
	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	76
	Executive Compensation	81
	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management	91
	Transactions with Related Persons, Promoters and Certain Control Persons	91
	Business and Operational Risks Relevant to the Contract	92
14.	Financial Statements	99
Appendix A – Available Indexes		100
	S&P 500 ® Index	100
	Russell 2000 ® Index	100
	Nasdaq-100 ® Index	101
	EURO STOXX 50 ®	101
	i Shares ® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF	102
Appendix B – Daily Adjustment		103
Appendix C – Rider Fee Calculation Example		105
Appendix D – Material Contract Variations by State		106
	Material State Contract Variations	106
Appendix E – Variable Investment Option Under the Contract		107
Appendix F – Audited Selected Financial Data and Statutory Financial Statements		108
	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (For the 12 month period ending December 31, 2022)	108
	Statutory Financial Statements	108
For Service or More Information		109
	Our Service Center	109

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Glossary

This prospectus is written in plain English. However, there are some technical words or terms that are capitalized and are used as defined terms throughout the prospectus. For your convenience, we included this glossary to define these terms.

Accumulation Phase – the first phase of your Contract before you request Annuity Payments. The Accumulation Phase begins on the Issue Date.

Annuitant – the individual upon whose life we base the Annuity Payments. Subject to our approval, the Owner designates the Annuitant, and can add a joint Annuitant for the Annuity Phase. There are restrictions on who can become an Annuitant.

Annuity Date – the date we begin making Annuity Payments to the Payee from the Contract. Your Annuity Date must occur on an Index Anniversary. The earliest available Annuity Date is the second Index Anniversary, and the latest possible Annuity Date is age 100.

Annuity Options – the annuity income options available to you under the Contract.

Annuity Payments – payments made by us to the Payee pursuant to the chosen Annuity Option.

Annuity Phase – the phase the Contract is in once Annuity Payments begin.

Beneficiary – the person(s) or entity the Owner designates to receive any death benefit, unless otherwise required by the Contract or applicable law.

Buffer – for each Index Option with the Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy, this is the negative Index Return that we absorb over the duration of a Term (which can be either one, three, or six years) before applying a negative Performance Credit. We do not apply the Buffer annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option. The Index Precision Strategy Buffers are 10%, and Index Performance Strategy Buffers are either 10% or 20%. Buffers do not change.

Business Day – each day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading. Allianz Life is open for business on each day that the New York Stock Exchange is open. Our Business Day ends when regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange closes, which is usually at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Cap – for any Index Option with the Index Performance Strategy, or Index Guard Strategy, this is the upper limit on positive Index performance after application of any Participation Rate over the duration of a Term (which can be either one, three, or six years) and the maximum potential Performance Credit for an Index Option. We do not apply the Cap annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option. On each Term Start Date, we set a Cap for each Index Option with the Index Performance Strategy, and Index Guard Strategy. The Caps applicable to your Contract are shown on the Index Options Statement.

Cash Value – the amount available upon liquidation (full withdrawal). It is the Contract Value less any final rider fee, contract maintenance charge, and withdrawal charge.

Charge Base – the Contract Value on the preceding Quarterly Contract Anniversary (or the initial Purchase Payment received on the Issue Date if this is before the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary), increased by the dollar amount of subsequent Purchase Payments, and reduced proportionately for subsequent withdrawals you take or financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract (including any withdrawal charge) and deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses. All withdrawals you take reduce the Charge Base, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals. We use the Charge Base to determine the next rider fee we deduct if you select the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit.

Contract – the individual flexible purchase payment index-linked and variable deferred annuity contract described by this prospectus. The Contract may also be referred to as a registered index-linked annuity, or “RILA”.

Contract Anniversary – a twelve-month anniversary of the Issue Date or any subsequent Contract Anniversary.

Contract Value – the current value of the Purchase Payments you invest. On any Business Day, your Contract Value is the sum of your Index Option Value(s) and Variable Account Value. Variable Account Value fluctuates each Business Day that money is held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund. Index Option Value is increased or decreased on each Term End Date to reflect Performance Credits, which can be negative with the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, and Index Performance Strategy. A negative Performance Credit means that you can lose principal and previous earnings. The Index Option Values also reflect the Daily Adjustment on every Business Day other than the Term

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Start Date or Term End Date. All withdrawals you take reduce Contract Value dollar for dollar, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals, and financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract. Contract Value is also reduced dollar for dollar for deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses. However, Contract Value does not reflect future fees and expenses we would apply on liquidation. The Cash Value reflects all Contract fees and expenses we would apply on liquidation (including any withdrawal charge).

Contract Year – any period of twelve months beginning on the Issue Date or a subsequent Contract Anniversary.

Crediting Method – a method we use to calculate Performance Credits for the Index Options.

Daily Adjustment – how we calculate Index Option Values on days other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date as discussed in section 4, Valuing Your Contract – Daily Adjustment; and Appendix B. The Daily Adjustment approximates the Index Option Value that will be available on the Term End Date. It is the estimated present value of the future Performance Credit that we will apply on the Term End Date. The Daily Adjustment for the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger cannot be negative.

Determining Life (Lives) – the person(s) designated at Contract issue and named in the Contract on whose life we base the guaranteed Traditional Death Benefit or Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit.

Early Reallocation – a feature that allows you to move assets out of a locked Index Option on days other than an Index Anniversary or a Term End Date.

Financial Professional – the person who advises you regarding the Contract.

Floor – for any Index Option with the Index Guard Strategy, this is the maximum amount of negative Index Return you absorb as a negative Performance Credit. The Floors are -10% and do not change.

Good Order – a request is in “Good Order” if it contains all of the information we require to process the request. If we require information to be provided in writing, “Good Order” also includes providing information on the correct form, with any required certifications, guarantees and/or signatures, and received at our Service Center after delivery to the correct mailing, email, or website address, which are all listed at the back of this prospectus. If you have questions about the information we require, or whether you can submit certain information by fax, email or over the web, please contact our Service Center. If you send information by email or upload it to our website, we send you a confirmation number that includes the date and time we received your information.

Guaranteed Death Benefit Value – the guaranteed value that is available to your Beneficiary(s) on the first death of any Determining Life during the Accumulation Phase. The Guaranteed Death Benefit Value is either total Purchase Payments reduced proportionately for withdrawals you take (including any withdrawal charge) if you select the Traditional Death Benefit, or the Maximum Anniversary Value if you select the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit. All withdrawals you take reduce the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals, and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract. However, we do not reduce the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value for deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses. These deductions will, however, reduce the Contract Value we use to calculate the Maximum Anniversary Value.

Index (Indexes) – one (or more) of the nationally recognized third-party broad based equity securities price return Indexes or exchange-traded fund available to you under your Contract as described in Appendix A.

Index Anniversary – a twelve-month anniversary of the Index Effective Date or any subsequent Index Anniversary.

Index Effective Date – the first day we allocate assets to an Index Option. The Index Effective Date is stated on the Index Options Statement and starts the first Index Year. When you purchase this Contract you select the Index Effective Date as discussed in section 3, Purchasing the Contract – Allocation of Purchase Payments and Contract Value Transfers.

Index Guard Strategy – one of the Crediting Methods described in section 4, Valuing Your Contract. The Index Guard Strategy calculates Performance Credits based on Index Returns subject to a Cap and -10% Floor. You can receive negative Performance Credits under this Crediting Method, which means you can lose principal and previous earnings. The Index Guard Strategy is more sensitive to smaller negative market movements that persist over time because the -10% Floor reduces the impact of large negative market movements. In an extended period of smaller negative market returns, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Guard Strategy than with the Index Performance Strategy and Index Precision Strategy.

Index Option – the index-linked investments available to you under the Contract. Each Index Option is the combination of an Index, a Crediting Method, a Term length, and any applicable Buffer or Floor amount.

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Index Option Base – an amount we use to calculate Performance Credits and the Daily Adjustment. The Index Option Base is initially equal to the amounts you allocate to an Index Option. We reduce the Index Option Base proportionately for withdrawals you take and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract (including any withdrawal charge), and deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses; we increase/decrease it by the dollar amount of additional Purchase Payments allocated to, transfers into or out of the Index Option; and any Performance Credits.

Index Option Value – on any Business Day, it is equal to the portion of your Contract Value in a particular Index Option. We establish an Index Option Value for each Index Option you select. Each Index Option Value includes any Performance Credits from previous Term End Dates and reflects proportional reductions for previous partial withdrawals you take and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract (including any withdrawal charge), and previous deductions we made for Contract fees and expenses. On each Business Day, other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date, the Index Option Values also include an increase/decrease from the Daily Adjustment.

Index Options Statement – the account statement we mail to you on the Index Effective Date and each Index Anniversary thereafter. On the Index Effective Date, the statement shows the initial Index Values, Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for the Index Options you selected. On each Index Anniversary, the statement shows the new Index Values, Performance Credits received, and renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates that are effective for the next Term for the Index Options you selected that have reached their Term End Date. The Index Options Statement also shows any applicable Buffer or Floor for your selected Index Option(s). For any Index Option you selected that has not reached its Term End Date the statement shows the current Index Anniversary’s Index Option Value, which includes the Daily Adjustment.

Index Performance Strategy – one of the Crediting Methods described in section 4, Valuing Your Contract. This Crediting Method offers 1-year, 3-year, and 6-year Terms. The Index Performance Strategy calculates Performance Credits based on Index Returns subject to any applicable Participation Rate, Cap, and a 10% or 20% Buffer. You can receive negative Performance Credits under this Crediting Method, which means you can lose principal and previous earnings. The Index Performance Strategy is more sensitive to large negative market movements because small negative market movements are absorbed by the 10% or 20% Buffer. In a period of extreme negative market performance, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Performance Strategy than with the Index Guard Strategy.

Index Precision Strategy – one of the Crediting Methods described in section 4, Valuing Your Contract. The Index Precision Strategy calculates Performance Credits based on Index Values and Index Returns subject to the Trigger Rate and 10% Buffer. You can receive negative Performance Credits under this Crediting Method, which means you can lose principal and previous earnings. The Index Precision Strategy may perform best in periods of small positive market movements because the Trigger Rates will generally be greater than the Index Protection Strategy Trigger Rates, but less than the Index Performance Strategy Caps. The Index Precision Strategy is more sensitive to large negative market movements because small negative market movements are absorbed by the 10% Buffer. In a period of extreme negative market performance, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Precision Strategy than with the Index Guard Strategy.

Index Protection Strategy with Trigger – one of the Crediting Methods described in section 4, Valuing Your Contract. The Index Protection Strategy with Trigger provides Performance Credits equal to the Trigger Rate on the Term End Date if the current Index Value is equal to or greater than the Index Value on the Term Start Date. The Index Protection Strategy with Trigger does not allow negative Performance Credits, and offers the least growth opportunity as Trigger Rates will generally be less than Caps, and the Trigger Rates available with the Index Precision Strategy.

Index Return – the percentage change in Index Value from the Term Start Date to the Term End Date, which we use to determine the Performance Credits. The Index Return is the Index Value on the Term End Date, minus the Index Value on the Term Start Date, divided by the Index Value on the Term Start Date.

Index Value – an Index’s closing market price at the end of the Business Day on the Term Start Date and Term End Date as provided by Bloomberg or another market source if Bloomberg is not available.

Index Year – a twelve-month period beginning on the Index Effective Date or a subsequent Index Anniversary.

Issue Date – the date we issue the Contract. The Issue Date is stated in your Contract and starts your first Contract Year. Contract Anniversaries and Contract Years are measured from the Issue Date.

Joint Owners – the two person(s) designated at Contract issue and named in the Contract who may exercise all rights granted by the Contract. Joint Owners must be spouses within the meaning of federal tax law.

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Lock Date – this is the Business Day we execute a Performance Lock and capture an Index Option Value (which includesthe Daily Adjustment) before the Term End Date.

Maximum Anniversary Value – the highest Contract Value on any Index Anniversary before age 91, increased by the dollar amount of subsequent Purchase Payments, and reduced proportionately for subsequent withdrawals you take (including any withdrawal charge), used to determine the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit as discussed in section 10. All withdrawals you take reduce your Maximum Anniversary Value, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals, and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract. Deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses other than the withdrawal charge do not reduce the Maximum Anniversary Value. These deductions will, however, reduce the Contract Value we use to calculate the Maximum Anniversary Value.

Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit – an optional benefit described in section 10 that has an additional rider fee and is intended to potentially provide a death benefit greater than the Traditional Death Benefit. The Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit can only be added to a Contract at issue.

Non-Qualified Contract – a Contract that is not purchased under a pension or retirement plan that qualifies for special tax treatment under sections of the Code.

Owner – “you,” “your” and “yours.” The person(s) or entity designated at Contract issue and named in the Contract who may exercise all rights granted by the Contract.

Participation Rate – may allow you to receive more than the Index Return if the Index Return is positive, but the Participation Rate cannot boost Index Returns beyond any declared Cap. We do not apply the Participation Rate if the Index Return is zero or negative. We do not apply the Participation Rate annually. The Participation Rate is only available on the Index Performance Strategy 3-year and 6-year Terms. The Participation Rate is not available on Index Performance Strategy 1-year Terms. We set Participation Rates on each Term Start Date. The Participation Rates applicable to your Contract are shown on the Index Options Statement.

Payee – the person or entity who receives Annuity Payments during the Annuity Phase.

Performance Credit – the return you receive on a Term End Date from the Index Options. We base Performance Credits on Index Values and Index Returns after application of any Participation Rate up to the Cap if returns are positive, or after application of any Trigger Rate if returns are flat or positive, or after application of any Buffer or Floor if returns are negative. Performance Credits cannot be negative with the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger Index Options.However, Performance Credits can be negative with the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, and Index Performance Strategy Index Options. If Performance Credits are negative,you can lose principal and previous earnings.

Penalty-Free Withdrawals – withdrawals you take that are not subject to a withdrawal charge. Penalty-Free Withdrawals include withdrawals you take under the free withdrawal privilege or waiver of withdrawal charge benefit, and RMD payments you take under our minimum distribution program.

Performance Lock – a feature that allows you to capture the current Index Option Value during the Term. A Performance Lock applies to the total Index Option Value in an Index Option, and not just a portion of that Index Option Value. After the Lock Date, Daily Adjustments do not apply to a locked Index Option for the remainder of the Index Year and the locked Index Option Value will not receive a Performance Credit. We will not execute a Performance Lock on Index Protection Strategy with Trigger Index Options if the Daily Adjustment is zero.

Proxy Investment – provides a current estimate of what the Performance Credit will be on the Term End Date taking into account any applicable Buffer, Floor, Trigger Rate, Cap, and/or Participation Rate. We use the Proxy Investment to calculate the Daily Adjustment on Business Days other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date. For more information, see Appendix B.

Proxy Value – the hypothetical value of the Proxy Investment used to calculate the Daily Adjustment as discussed in Appendix B.

Purchase Payment – the money you put into the Contract.

Qualified Contract – a Contract purchased under a pension or retirement plan that qualifies for special tax treatment under sections of the Code (for example, 401(a) and 401(k) plans), Individual Retirement Annuities (IRAs), or Tax-Sheltered Annuities (referred to as TSA contracts). Currently, we issue Qualified Contracts that may include, but are not limited to Roth IRAs, traditional IRAs and Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRAs.

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Quarterly Contract Anniversary – the day that occurs three calendar months after the Issue Date or any subsequent Quarterly Contract Anniversary.

Separate Account – Allianz Life Variable Account B is the Separate Account that issues the variable investment portion of your Contract. It is a separate investment account of Allianz Life. The Separate Account holds the shares of the AZL Government Money Market Fund subaccount that underlies the Contracts. The Separate Account is divided into subaccounts, each of which invests exclusively in a variable investment option. The only currently available variable investment option is the AZL Government Money Market Fund. The Separate Account is registered with the SEC as a unit investment trust, and may be referred to as the Registered Separate Account.

Service Center – the area of our company that issues Contracts and provides Contract maintenance and routine customer service. Our Service Center address and telephone number are listed at the back of this prospectus. The address for mailing applications and/or checks for Purchase Payments may be different and is also listed at the back of this prospectus.

Term – The period of time, from the Term Start Date to the Term End Date, in which we measure Index Return to determine Performance Credits.

Term End Date – The day on which a Term ends and we apply Performance Credits. A Term End Date may only occur on an Index Anniversary. If a Term End Date does not occur on a Business Day, we consider it to occur on the next Business Day.

Term Start Date – The day on which a Term begins and we set the Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for an Index Option. A Term Start Date may only occur on the Index Effective Date or an Index Anniversary. If a Term Start Date does not occur on a Business Day, we consider it to occur on the next Business Day. However, if you execute a Performance Lock and then request an Early Reallocation, the Term Start Date will be the Business Day we receive your Early Reallocation request in Good Order.

Traditional Death Benefit – the guaranteed death benefit automatically provided by the Contract for no additional fee described in section 10.

Trigger Rate – the positive Performance Credit you receive on a Term End Date if Index performance is zero or positive for any Index Option with the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, or Index Precision Strategy. You receive a Performance Credit equal to the Trigger Rate on the Term End Date if the current Index Value is equal to or greater than the Index Value on the Term Start Date. For the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, you will not receive a negative Performance Credit if the Index Value decreases from the Term Start Date the Term End Date. For the Index Precision Strategy, you will receive a negative Performance Credit if the Index Value decreases from the Term Start Date the Term End Date and the decrease is greater than the Buffer. On each Term Start Date, we set a Trigger Rate for each Index Option with the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, and Index Precision Strategy. The Trigger Rates provide predefined upside potential. The Trigger Rates applicable to your Contract are shown on the Index Options Statement.

Valid Claim – the documents we require to be received in Good Order at our Service Center before we pay any death claim. This includes the death benefit payment option, due proof of death, and any required governmental forms. Due proof of death includes a certified copy of the death certificate, a decree of court of competent jurisdiction as to the finding of death, or any other proof satisfactory to us.

Variable Account Value – on any Business Day, it is the value of the shares in the AZL Government Money Market Fund subaccount which holds your Purchase Payments until the Index Effective Date or the next Index Anniversary. The Variable Account Value increases and decreases based on the performance of the AZL Government Money Market Fund and reflects deduction of the fund’s operating expenses, any previous deductions we made for Contract fees and expenses, and financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract.

Withdrawal Charge Basis – the total amount under your Contract that is subject to a withdrawal charge as discussed in section 6, Expenses – Withdrawal Charge.

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Important Information You Should Consider About the Contract 

	FEES AND EXPENSES			Prospectus Location
Charges for Early Withdrawals	If you withdraw money from the Contract within six years of your last Purchase Payment, you will be assessed a withdrawal charge of up to 8.5% of the Purchase Payment withdrawn, declining to 0% over that time period. For example, if you invest $100,000 in the Contract and make an early withdrawal, you could pay a withdrawal charge of up to $8,500.   In addition, if you take a full or partial withdrawal (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) from an Index Option on a date other than the Term End Date, a Daily Adjustment will apply to amounts invested in the Index Option that is available for withdrawal. The Daily Adjustment also applies if before the Term End Date you execute a Performance Lock, annuitize the Contract, we pay a death benefit, or we deduct Contract fees and expenses. The Daily Adjustment may be negative depending on the applicable Crediting Method. You will lose money if the Daily Adjustment is negative.   •Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, and Index Performance Strategy. Daily Adjustments under these Crediting Methods may be positive, negative, or equal to zero. A negative Daily Adjustment will result in loss. In extreme circumstances, a negative Daily Adjustment could result in a loss beyond the protection of the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor, as applicable, but it cannot result in a total loss of -100%.   •Index Protection Strategy with Trigger. Daily Adjustments under this Crediting Method may be positive or equal to zero, but cannot be negative.			Fee Tables   4. Valuing Your Contract – Daily Adjustment   6. Expenses – Withdrawal Charge   Appendix B – Daily Adjustment
Transaction Charges	Other than withdrawal charges and Daily Adjustments that may apply to withdrawals and other transactions under the Contract, there are no other transaction charges.			Not Applicable
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay each year, depending on the options you choose. Please refer to your Contract specifications page for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected. These ongoing fees and expenses do not reflect any financial adviser fees paid to a Financial Professional from your Contract Value or other assets of the Owner. If such charges were reflected, these ongoing fees and expenses would be higher. [To be updated by amendment]			Fee Tables   6. Expenses   Appendix E – Variable Investment Option Under the Contract
	Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
	Base Contract(1)	0.01%	0.01%
	Investment Options(2) (Variable Investment Option fees and expenses)	0.65%	0.65%
	Optional Benefits Available for an Additional Charge(3) (for a single optional benefit, if elected)	0.20%	0.20%
	(1) As a percentage of the Charge Base, plus an amount attributable to the estimated contract maintenance charge based on expected Contract sales.
	(2) An amount attributable to the estimated contract maintenance charge based on expected Contract sales.
	(3) As a percentage of the Charge Base. This is the current charge for the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit.

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	FEES AND EXPENSES		Prospectus Location
	Because your Contract is customizable, the choices you make affect how much you will pay. To help you understand the cost of owning your Contract, the following table shows the lowest and highest cost you could pay each year, based on current charges. This estimate assumes that you do not take withdrawals from the Contract, which if taken from the Index Options could result in substantial losses due to the application of negative Daily Adjustments. [To be updated by amendment]
	Lowest Annual Cost: $1,753	Highest Annual Cost: $1,987
	Assumes: •Investment of $100,000 in the AZL Government Money Market Fund (even though you cannot select the fund for investment) •5% annual appreciation •Traditional Death Benefit •No additional Purchase Payments, transfers, or withdrawals •No financial adviser fees	Assumes: •Investment of $100,000 in the AZL Government Money Market Fund (even though you cannot select the fund for investment) •5% annual appreciation •Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit with a 0.20% rider fee •No additional Purchase Payments, transfers, or withdrawals •No financial adviser fees
	RISKS
Risk of Loss	You can lose money by investing in the Contract, including loss of principal and previous earnings.		Risk Factors
Not a Short-Term Investment	• This Contract is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate if you need ready access to cash. • Considering the benefits of tax deferral and long-term income, the Contract is generally more beneficial to investors with a long investment time horizon. • Withdrawals may be subject to income taxes, including a 10% additional federal tax that may apply to withdrawals taken before age 59  1∕2. • If within six years after we receive a Purchase Payment you take a full or partial withdrawal (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), withdrawal charges will apply. A withdrawal charge will reduce your Contract Value or the amount of money that you actually receive. Withdrawals may reduce or end Contract guarantees. • Amounts invested in an Index Option must be held in the Index Option for the full Term before they can receive a Performance Credit. We apply a Daily Adjustment if before the Term End Date you take a full or partial withdrawal (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), annuitize the Contract, execute a Performance Lock, we pay a death benefit, or we deduct Contract fees and expenses. For more information see section 4, Valuing Your Contract - Daily Adjustment; and Appendix B – Daily Adjustment. • The Traditional Death Benefit may not be modified, but it will terminate if you take withdrawals that reduce both the Contract Value and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value to zero. Withdrawals may reduce the Traditional Death Benefit’s Guaranteed Death Benefit Value by more than the value withdrawn and could end the Traditional Death Benefit.		Risk Factors   4. Valuing Your Contract   10. Death Benefit   Appendix B – Daily Adjustment
Risks Associated with Investment Options	• An investment in the Contract is subject to the risk of poor investment performance and can vary depending on the performance of the AZL Government Money Market Fund and the Index Options available under the Contract. • The AZL Government Money Market Fund and each Index Option has its own unique risks. • You should review the AZL Government Money Market Fund prospectus and disclosures, including risk factors, for each Index Option before making an investment decision.		Risk Factors

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	RISKS	Prospectus Location
Insurance Company Risks	An investment in the Contract is subject to the risks related to us. All obligations, guarantees or benefits of the Contract are the obligations of Allianz Life and are subject to our claims-paying ability and financial strength. More information about Allianz Life, including our financial strength ratings, is available upon request by visiting allianzlife.com/about/financial-ratings, or contacting us at (800) 624-0197.	Risk Factors
	RESTRICTIONS
Investments	• Certain Index Options may not be available under your Contract. • You cannot allocate Purchase Payments to the AZL Government Money Market Fund. The sole purpose of the AZL Government Money Market Fund is to hold Purchase Payments until they are transferred to your selected Index Options. • We restrict additional Purchase Payments during the Accumulation Phase. Each Index Year, you cannot add more than your initial amount (i.e., all Purchase Payments received before the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary of the first Contract Year) without our prior approval. • We do not accept additional Purchase Payments during the Annuity Phase. • We typically only allow assets to move into the Index Options on the Index Effective Date and on subsequent Index Anniversaries as discussed in section 3, Purchasing the Contract – Allocation of Purchase Payments and Contract Value Transfers. However, if you execute a Performance Lock and request Early Reallocation, we will move assets into an Index Option on the Business Day we receive your Early Reallocation request in Good Order. • You can typically transfer Index Option Value only on Term End Dates. However, you can transfer assets out of an Index Option Value before the Term End Date by executing a Performance Lock as discussed in section 4, Valuing Your Contract – Performance Locks. • We do not allow assets to move into an established Index Option until the Term End Date. If you request to allocate a Purchase Payment into an established Index Option on an Index Anniversary that is not a Term End Date, we will allocate those assets to the same Index Option with a new Term Start Date. • We reserve the right to close or substitute the AZL Government Money Market Fund. We also reserve the right to close Index Options and substitute Indexes. We also reserve the right to decline any or all Purchase Payments at any time on a nondiscriminatory basis.	Risk Factors   3. Purchasing the Contract   4. Valuing Your Contract   5. AZL Government Money Market Fund   Appendix A – Available Indexes
Optional Benefits	• The optional Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit may not be modified. Withdrawals may reduce the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit’s Guaranteed Death Benefit Value by more than the value withdrawn and will end the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit if the withdrawals reduce both the Contract Value and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value to zero.	10. Death Benefit
	TAXES
Tax Implications	• Consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and withdrawals from or payments received under the Contract. • If you purchased the Contract through a tax-qualified plan or individual retirement account (IRA), you do not get any additional tax benefit under the Contract. • Earnings under the Contract may be taxed at ordinary income rates when withdrawn, and you may have to pay a 10% additional federal tax if you take a full or partial withdrawal before age 59 1∕2.	11. Taxes
	CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Your Financial Professional may receive compensation for selling this Contract to you, in the form of commissions, additional cash benefits (e.g., cash bonuses), and non-cash compensation. We and/or our wholly owned subsidiary distributor may also make marketing support payments to certain selling firms for marketing services and costs associated with Contract sales. This conflict of interest may influence your Financial Professional to recommend this Contract over another investment for which the Financial Professional is not compensated or compensated less.	12. Other Information – Distribution

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	CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	Prospectus Location
Exchanges	Some Financial Professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new contract in place of the one you already own. You should only exchange your contract if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both contracts, that it is better for you to purchase the new contract rather than continue to own your existing contract.	12. Other Information – Distribution

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Overview of the Contract

What Is the Purpose of the Contract?

The Index Advantage+ NFSM is a product that offers Index Options and allows you to defer taking regular fixed periodic payments (Annuity Payments) to a future date. Under the Contract, you make one or more Purchase Payments. Each Purchase Payment is first invested for a limited time in the AZL Government Money Market Fund and then transferred to the Index Option(s) that you select for investment. Depending on several factors (e.g., Index Options you select, market conditions, and timing of any withdrawals), your Contract can gain or lose value. When you are ready to receive a guaranteed stream of income under your Contract, you can annuitize your accumulated assets and begin receiving Annuity Payments from us based on the payout option you select (Annuity Options). The Contract includes for no additional charge a standard death benefit (the Traditional Death Benefit), or for an additional rider fee you may select the optional death benefit (the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit) to replace the standard death benefit. Both death benefits help to financially protect your beneficiaries.

We designed the Contract for people who are looking for a death benefit for a period of time, and a level of protection for your principal investment while providing potentially higher returns than are available on traditional fixed annuities. In addition, you should have a long investment time horizon and your financial goals should be otherwise consistent with the terms and conditions of the Contract. This Contract is not intended for someone who is seeking complete protection from downside risk, seeking unlimited investment potential, or expecting to take withdrawals that will not be subject to withdrawal charges or Daily Adjustments (i.e., a person that does not need access to Contract Value within six years after we receive a Purchase Payment, or before an Index Option's Term End Date).

We offer other annuity contracts that may address your investment and retirement needs. These contracts include registered index-linked annuities and fixed index annuities. These annuity products offer different features and benefits that may be more appropriate for your needs, including allocation options, fees and/or expenses that are different from those in the Contract offered by this prospectus. Not every contract is offered through every Financial Professional. Some Financial Professionals or selling firms may not offer and/or limit offering of certain features and benefits, as well as limit the availability of the contracts based on criteria established by the Financial Professional or selling firm. For more information about other annuity contracts, please contact your Financial Professional.

The product or certain product features may not be available in all states, or may vary in your state (such as the free look). For more information see Appendix D - Material Contract Variations by State. Availability of Index Options may vary by financial intermediary. You can obtain information on which Index Options are available to you by calling (800) 624-0197, or from your Financial Professional.

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What Are the Phases of the Contract?

The Contract has two phases: (1) an Accumulation Phase, and (2) an Annuity Phase.

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Accumulation Phase. This is the first phase of your Contract, and it begins on the Issue Date. During the Accumulation Phase, your money is invested under the Contract on a tax-deferred basis. Tax deferral may not be available for certain non-individually owned contracts. Tax deferral means you are not taxed on any earnings or appreciation on the assets in your Contract until you take money out of your Contract. In addition, during this phase, you can make additional Purchase Payments, you can take withdrawals, and if you die we pay a death benefit to your named Beneficiary(s).

Your Contract Value may fluctuate up or down during the Accumulation Phase based on the performance of your selected Index Options and the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

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Index Options. You may allocate your Purchase Payments to any or all of the Index Options available under your Contract. There are currently 26 Index Options based on different combinations of four credit calculation methods (Crediting Methods), four nationally recognized third-party broad based equity securities price return Indexes and an exchange-traded fund, and three Term periods for measuring Index performance. Each Index Option is the combination of an Index, a Crediting Method, a Term length, and any applicable Buffer or Floor amount. 

Currently Available Crediting Methods, Term Lengths, and Negative Index Performance Protection	Currently Available Indexes	Positive Index Performance Participation Limit
Index Protection Strategy with Trigger 1-year Term with 100% downside protection	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index • Nasdaq-100® Index • EURO STOXX 50® • iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF	• 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate
Index Precision Strategy 1-year Term with 10% Buffer	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index • Nasdaq-100® Index • EURO STOXX 50® • iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF	• 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate
Index Guard Strategy 1-year Term with -10% Floor	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index • Nasdaq-100® Index • EURO STOXX 50® • iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF	• 0.10% minimum Cap
Index Performance Strategy 1-year Term with 10% Buffer	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index • Nasdaq-100® Index • EURO STOXX 50® • iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF	• 0.10% minimum Cap • Can be “uncapped” (i.e., we do not declare a Cap for that Term)
Index Performance Strategy 3-year Term with 10% Buffer	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index	• 2% minimum Cap • Can be uncapped • 100% minimum Participation Rate
Index Performance Strategy 3-year Term with 20% Buffer	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index	• 2% minimum Cap • Can be uncapped • 100% minimum Participation Rate
Index Performance Strategy 6-year Term with 10% Buffer	• S&P 500® Index • Russell 2000® Index	• 5% minimum Cap • Can be uncapped • 100% minimum Participation Rate

Your initial and renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates are stated in your Index Options Statement, which is the account statement we mail to you on the Index Effective Date and each Index Anniversary. The Index

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Options Statement also includes the Index Values on the Term Start Date and Term End Date. We use these Index Values to determine Index Returns and Performance Credits. More detailed information about the Index Options is included in section 4, Valuing Your Contract.

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AZL Government Money Market Fund. We hold your Purchase Payments in the AZL Government Money Market Fund until we transfer them to the Index Options in accordance with your instructions. You cannot choose to allocate Purchase Payments to the AZL Government Money Market Fund. The AZL Government Money Market Fund is an underlying mutual fund with its own investment objective, strategies, and risks. For more information, please see Appendix E - Variable Investment Option Under the Contract.

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Annuity Phase. If you request Annuity Payments, the Accumulation Phase ends and the Annuity Phase begins. Annuity Payments are fixed payments we make based on the Annuity Option you select and your Contract Value (which reflects any previously deducted Contract fees and expenses) less final rider fee (if applicable). Annuity Payments can provide a guaranteed lifetime fixed income stream with certain tax advantages. We designed the Annuity Payments for Owners who no longer need immediate access to Contract Value to meet their short-term income needs.

During the Annuity Phase, you will receive a stream of regular income in the form of Annuity Payments. You will be unable to take withdrawals upon demand, your selected death benefit ends, and no amounts will be payable upon death during the Annuity Phase unless your Annuity Option provides otherwise.

What Are the Contract’s Primary Features?

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Accessing Your Money. During the Accumulation Phase, you can surrender (take a full withdrawal) the Contract or take partial withdrawals. Withdrawals may be subject to a withdrawal charge, negative Daily Adjustments, and income taxes, including a 10% additional federal tax if taken before age 59 1∕2.

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Additional Purchase Payments. Subject to the limitations described in this prospectus, we continue to accept additional Purchase Payments under the Contracts during the Accumulation Phase. However, we may terminate your ability to make additional Purchase Payments in the future. We only allow additional Purchase Payments to move into Index Options on Index Anniversaries. As a result, we hold Purchase Payments we receive on days other than an Index Anniversary in the AZL Government Money Market Fund and such Purchase Payments are not available to receive Performance Credits until we transfer them to your selected Index Options. We do not allow assets to move into an established Index Option until the Term End Date. If you request to allocate a Purchase Payment into an established Index Option on an Index Anniversary that is not a Term End Date, we will allocate those assets to the same Index Option with a new Term Start Date.

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Death Benefits. The Contract’s death benefit is paid upon the first death of any Determining Life during the Accumulation Phase. The Contract includes for no additional charge a standard death benefit (the Traditional Death Benefit). At the time of purchase, you may select the optional death benefit (the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit) to replace the standard death benefit for an additional rider fee. Either death benefit is the greater of Contract Value, or the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value. Unlike the Traditional Death Benefit, however, the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit locks in any annual investment gains as part of the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value to potentially provide a death benefit greater than the Traditional Death Benefit (which is based on Purchase Payments). The Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit cannot be less than the Traditional Death Benefit, but they can be equal.

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Withdrawal Charge Waivers. Under the free withdrawal privilege, you may withdraw up to 10% of your total Purchase Payments each Contract Year during the Accumulation Phase without incurring a withdrawal charge. Upon a full withdrawal, the free withdrawal privilege is not available to you. We do not apply a withdrawal charge to deductions we make for Contract fees or expenses. In most states, the waiver of withdrawal charge benefit allows you to take a withdrawal after the first Contract Year without incurring a withdrawal charge if you are confined for care for at least 90 days, or are unable to perform at least two activities of daily living. Also, if you own an IRA or Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA Contract, payments you take under our minimum distribution program (RMD payments) are not subject to a withdrawal charge.

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Deduction of Financial Adviser Fees. If you have a financial adviser and want to pay their financial adviser fees from this Contract, you can instruct us to withdraw the fee from your Contract and pay it to your Financial Professional or Financial Professional’s firm as instructed. The deduction of financial adviser fees is in addition to this Contract’s fees and expenses, and the deduction is treated the same as any other withdrawal under the Contract. As such, withdrawals to pay financial adviser fees will be subject to withdrawal charges, will reduce the Contract Value and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value (perhaps significantly), and may be subject to income taxes (including a 10% additional federal tax if you are younger than age 59 1∕2). Please consult with your Financial Professional before requesting us to pay financial adviser fees from this Contract rather than from other assets you may have.

Fee Tables

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the Contract. Please refer to your Contract specifications page for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected. These tables do not reflect any financial adviser fees that you pay from your other assets, or that you choose to have us pay from this Contract. If financial adviser fees were reflected, fees and expenses would be higher.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the Contract, surrender or make withdrawals from the Contract, or transfer Contract Value between investment options. State premium taxes may also be deducted.

Transaction Expenses

Withdrawal Charge During Your Contract’s First Phase, the Accumulation Phase(1)
(as a percentage of each Purchase Payment withdrawn)(2) 

Number of Complete Years Since Purchase Payment	Withdrawal Charge Amount
0	8.5%
1	8%
2	7%
3	6%
4	5%
5	4%
6 years or more	0%

 

	Index Protection Strategy with Trigger	Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy	Index Guard Strategy
Daily Adjustment Maximum Potential Loss	0%	99%	35%
(as a percentage of Index Option Value, applies for distributions from an Index Option before any Term End Date)(3)

(1)

The Contract provides a free withdrawal privilege that allows you to withdraw 10% of your total Purchase Payments annually without incurring a withdrawal charge, as discussed in section 7, Access to Your Money – Free Withdrawal Privilege.

(2)

The Withdrawal Charge Basis is the total amount under your Contract that is subject to a withdrawal charge, as discussed in section 6, Expenses – Withdrawal Charge.

(3)

This shows the maximum potential loss due to the application of the Daily Adjustment (e.g., maximum loss could occur if there is a total distribution within a Term at a time when the Index price has declined to zero). The Daily Adjustment could result in a loss beyond the protection of the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor. The Daily Adjustment applies if before the Term End Date you take a full or partial withdrawal (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), execute a Performance Lock, annuitize the Contract, we pay a death benefit, or when we deduct Contract fees or expenses. The actual Daily Adjustment calculation is determined by a formula described in Appendix B.

The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay each year during the time that you own the Contract (not including AZL Government Money Market Fund fees and expenses). If you purchased the optional Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit, you pay additional charges, as shown below.

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Annual Contract Expenses 

Administrative Expenses (or contract maintenance charge)(1) (per year)	$50
Optional Benefit Expenses – Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit (as a percentage of the Charge Base)	0.20%

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Referred to as the “contract maintenance charge” in the Contract and elsewhere in this prospectus. Waived if the Contract Value is at least $100,000. During the Annuity Phase, we deduct the contract maintenance charge proportionately from each Annuity Payment. See the section 6, Expenses – Contract Maintenance Charge (Administrative Expenses).

The next table shows the total operating expenses charged by the AZL Government Money Market Fund that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the Contract. More information about the AZL Government Money Market Fund, including its annual expenses, may be found in Appendix E – Variable Investment Option Under the Contract. The Index Options do not have operating expenses, and are therefore not included in the following table.

Annual Expenses of the AZL Government Money Market Fund

[To be updated by amendment] 

(expenses that are deducted from the fund’s assets, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees, and other expenses) 0.65%

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Contract with the cost of investing in other variable annuity contracts. The Example is based on an investment solely in the AZL Government Money Market Fund even though you cannot allocate Purchase Payments directly to the fund. The costs include transaction expenses, annual Contract expenses, and annual expenses of the AZL Government Money Market Fund. These costs do not include any financial adviser fees that you pay from your other assets, or that you choose to have us pay from this Contract.

The Example assumes that you invest $100,000 in the Contract for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that you elected the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

[To be updated by amendment] 

	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
(1) If you surrender your Contract (take a full withdrawal) at the end of the applicable time period.	$11,334	$15,765	$20,065	$32,585
(2) If you annuitize your Contract at the end of the applicable time period.	N/A*	$8,765	$15,065	$32,585
(3) If you do not surrender your Contract.	$2,834	$8,765	$15,065	$32,585

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The earliest available Annuity Date is the second Index Anniversary.

Risk Factors

The Contract involves certain risks that you should understand before purchasing. You should carefully consider your income needs and risk tolerance to determine whether the Contract is appropriate for you. The level of risk you bear and your potential investment performance will differ depending on the Index Options you choose.

Liquidity Risks

We designed the Contract to be a long-term investment that you can use to help build and provide income for retirement. The Contract is not suitable for short-term investment.

If you need to take a full or partial withdrawal during the withdrawal charge period, or when we deduct any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract, we deduct a withdrawal charge unless the withdrawal is a Penalty-Free Withdrawal. While Penalty-Free Withdrawals provide some liquidity, they are permitted in only limited amounts or in special circumstances. If you need to withdraw most or all of your Contract Value in a short period, you will

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exceed the Penalty-Free Withdrawal amounts available to you and incur withdrawal charges. (For more information on the withdrawal charge, see the Fee Tables and section 6, Expenses – Withdrawal Charge.)

We calculate the withdrawal charge as a percentage of your Purchase Payments, not Contract Value. Consequently, if the Contract Value has declined since you made a Purchase Payment, it is possible the percentage of Contract Value withdrawn to cover the withdrawal charge would be greater than the withdrawal charge percentage. For example, assume you buy the Contract with a single Purchase Payment of $1,000. If your Contract Value in the 5th year is $800 and you take a full withdrawal a 5% withdrawal charge applies. The total withdrawal charge would be $50 (5% of $1,000). This results in you receiving $750.

In addition, upon a full withdrawal the free withdrawal privilege is not available to you, and we apply a withdrawal charge against Purchase Payments that are still within their withdrawal charge period, including amounts previously withdrawn under the free withdrawal privilege. On a full withdrawal your Withdrawal Charge Basis may be greater than your Contract Value because the following reduce your Contract Value, but do not reduce your Withdrawal Charge Basis: deductions we make for prior Penalty-Free Withdrawals and Contract fees or expenses; and/or poor performance.

Amounts withdrawn from this Contract may also be subject to federal and state income taxes, and a 10% additional federal tax if taken before age 59 1∕2.

We only apply Performance Credits to the Index Options once each Term on the Term End Date, rather than on a daily basis. In the interim, we calculate Index Option Values based on the Daily Adjustment. The AZL Government Money Market Fund is not subject to the Daily Adjustment. Any assets removed from an Index Option during the Term for withdrawals you take (including Penalty-Free Withdrawals and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), Annuity Payments, or deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses, or if we pay a death benefit, will not be eligible to receive a Performance Credit on the Term End Date. These removed assets will not receive the full benefit of the Index Value, Index Return, and the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor that would have been available on the Term End Date, and losses could exceed the protection offered by the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor. You will receive a Performance Credit only on the Index Option Value remaining in an Index Option on the Term End Date.

You can typically transfer Index Option Value among the Index Options only on Term End Dates. At other times, you can only move assets out of an Index Option by taking a full or partial withdrawal, or entering the Annuity Phase. However, you can transfer assets out of an Index Option before the Term End Date by executing a Performance Lock. Once an Index Option is locked, you can transfer assets out of it on the Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date. For a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option this means you can transfer out of the locked Index Option before the Term End Date by executing a Performance Lock on or before the second Index Anniversary of a 3-year Term, or on or before the fifth Index Anniversary of a 6-year Term. You can also transfer assets out of any locked Index Option before the Term End Date by requesting an Early Reallocation. You can only execute two Early Reallocations each Index Year, but each request can involve multiple locked Index Options. These restrictions may limit your ability to react to changes in market conditions. You should consider whether investing in an Index Option is consistent with your financial needs.

Risks of Investing in Securities

Returns on securities and securities Indexes can vary substantially, which may result in investment losses. The historical performance of the available Index Options and the AZL Government Money Market Fund does not guarantee future results. It is impossible to predict whether underlying investment values will fall or rise. Trading prices of the securities underlying the Index Options and the AZL Government Money Market Fund are influenced by economic, financial, regulatory, geographic, judicial, political and other complex and interrelated factors. These factors can affect capital markets generally and markets on which the underlying securities are traded and these factors can influence the performance of the underlying securities.

Index Option returns depend on the performance of an Index although you are not directly invested in the Index. Because the S&P 500® Index, Russell 2000® Index, Nasdaq-100® Index, EURO STOXX 50® and iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF are each comprised of a collection of equity securities, in each case the value of the component securities is subject to market risk, or the risk that market fluctuations may cause the value of the component securities to go up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. In addition, the value of equity securities may decline for reasons directly related to the issuers of the securities.

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S&P 500® Index. The S&P 500® Index is comprised of equity securities issued by large-capitalization U.S. companies. In general, large-capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, and also may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies.

Russell 2000® Index. The Russell 2000® Index is comprised of equity securities of small-capitalization U.S. companies. In general, the securities of small-capitalization companies may be more volatile and may involve more risk than the securities of larger companies.

Nasdaq-100® Index. The Nasdaq-100® Index is comprised of equity securities of the largest U.S. and non-U.S. companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market, including companies across all major industry groups except the financial industry. To the extent that the Nasdaq-100® Index is comprised of securities issued by companies in a particular sector, that company’s securities may not perform as well as companies in other sectors or the market as a whole. Also, any component securities issued by non-U.S. companies (including related depositary receipts) are subject to the risks related to investments in foreign markets (e.g., increased price volatility; changing currency exchange rates; and greater political, regulatory, and economic uncertainty).

EURO STOXX 50®. EURO STOXX 50® is comprised of the equity securities of large-capitalization companies in the Eurozone. The securities comprising EURO STOXX 50® are subject to the risks related to investments in foreign markets (e.g., increased price volatility; changing currency exchange rates; and greater political, regulatory, and economic uncertainty), and are significantly affected by the European markets and actions of the European Union.

iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF. The iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets. The underlying index may include large-and mid-capitalization companies. iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is an exchange-traded fund. The performance of the iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF may not replicate the performance of, and may underperform the underlying index. The price of the iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF will reflect expenses and fees that will reduce its relative performance. Moreover, it is also possible that the iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF may not fully replicate or may, in certain circumstances, diverge significantly from the performance of the underlying index. Additional information about iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is available on the SEC’s website at sec.gov and copies of that information may be obtained, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov. Please note that this information is not prepared by us and may be intended for shareholders of the ETF. You will not be a shareholder of the ETF by investing in an Index Option that is linked to the performance of the ETF. You may also request additional information about the ETF from our Service Center or your Financial Professional. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has at times led to significant volatility and negative returns in the financial markets. These

market conditions have impacted the performance of the Indexes to which the Index Options are linked, as well as

securities held by the AZL Government Money Market Fund. If these market conditions continue or reoccur, and

depending on your individual circumstances (e.g., your selected Index Options and the timing of any Purchase Payments,

transfers, or withdrawals), you may experience (perhaps significant) negative returns under the Contract. The COVID-19

pandemic has contributed to an uncertain and evolving economic environment. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

and other interrelated factors (e.g., changes in interest rates, rising inflation, actions of governmental authorities) on the

economic environment cannot be predicted with certainty, but they could negatively affect the returns of an Index and

the level of Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates, and other product features, and the overall performance of your

Contract.

The military invasion of Ukraine initiated by Russia in February 2022 and the resulting response by the United States

and other countries have led to economic disruptions, as well as increased volatility and uncertainty in the financial

markets. It is not possible to predict the ultimate duration and scope of the conflict, or the future impact on U.S. and

global economies and financial markets. The performance of the Indexes to which the Index Options are linked, as well

as securities held by the AZL Government Money Market Fund, may be adversely affected. This risk could be higher for

Indexes with exposure to European or Russian markets, including EURO STOXX 50® and iShares® MSCI Emerging

Markets ETF. Depending on your individual circumstances (e.g., your selected Index Options and the timing of any

Purchase Payments, transfers, or withdrawals), you may experience (perhaps significant) negative returns under the

Contract. You should consult with a Financial Professional about how the recent market conditions may impact your

future investment decisions related to the Contract, such as purchasing the Contract or making Purchase Payments,

transfers, or withdrawals, based on your individual circumstances.

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Risk of Negative Returns

The AZL Government Money Market Fund does not provide any protection against negative returns. You can lose principal and previous earnings for Purchase Payments held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund and such losses could be significant.

If you allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to an Index Option with the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy, negative Index Returns may cause Performance Credits to be either negative after application of the 10% or 20% Buffer, or negative down to the -10% Floor. For the Index Performance Strategy, we apply the Buffer for the entire Term length; we do not apply the Buffer annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option. Ongoing deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses could also cause amounts available for withdrawal to be less than what you invested even if Index performance has been positive. You can lose principal and previous earnings if you allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to the Index Options with the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy, and such losses could be significant. If you allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to the Index Options with the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger you can also lose principal and previous earnings if you do not receive the Performance Credit, or if the Contract fees and expenses are greater than the Performance Credit. The maximum potential negative Performance Credit for the Index Performance Strategy and Index Precision Strategy is based on the Buffer. If the Buffer is 10% the maximum negative Performance Credit is -90%, and if the Buffer is 20% the maximum negative Performance Credit is -80%. The maximum potential negative Performance Credit for the Index Guard Strategy is the -10% Floor. Such losses will be greater if you take a withdrawal (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) that is subject to a withdrawal charge, or is a deduction of Contract fees and expenses.

The Daily Adjustment is how we calculate Index Option Values on Business Days other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date. The AZL Government Money Market Fund is not subject to the Daily Adjustment. The Daily Adjustment can affect the amounts available for withdrawal, Performance Locks, annuitization, payment of the death benefit, and the Contract Value used to determine the contract maintenance charge and Charge Base for the rider fee. The Daily Adjustment can be less than the Trigger Rate or Cap even if the current Index return during the Term is greater than the Trigger Rate or Cap. In addition, even though the current Index return during the Term may be positive, the Daily Adjustment may be negative due to changes in Proxy Value inputs, such as volatility, dividend yield, and interest rate. However, the Daily Adjustment for the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger cannot be negative. The Daily Adjustment is generally negatively affected by:

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interest rate decreases,

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dividend rate increases,

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poor market performance, and

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the expected volatility of Index prices. Increases in the expected volatility of Index prices negatively affect the Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy with 1-year Terms, while decreases in the expected volatility of Index prices negatively affect the Index Guard Strategy. For the Index Performance Strategy 3-year and 6-year Term Index Options, the impact of changes in the expected volatility of Index prices is dependent on the market environment and the applicable Caps and Participation Rates. For the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, the impact of changes in the expected volatility of Index prices is dependent on the market environment.

The Daily Adjustment for Index Options with a Term length of more than 1-year (3-year and 6-year Term Index Options and Early Reallocation to a 1-year Term Index Option) may be more negatively impacted by changes in the expected volatility of Index prices than 1-year Term Index Options due to the difference in term length. Also, the risk of a negative Daily Adjustment is greater for Index Options with a Term length of more than 1-year than for 1-year Term Index Options due to the Term length. For shorter term lengths, there is less uncertainty in the final Index Values and the impact of the applicable Caps and Buffers on the Daily Adjustment is greater. Consequently, the impact of the Cap and Buffer on the Daily Adjustment for a 1-year Term Index Option is greater than it is for Index Options with a Term length of more than 1-year. In addition, 3-year and 6-year Term Index Options with a Participation Rate above 100% may also have larger fluctuations in the Daily Adjustment than Index Options either without a Participation Rate, or with a Participation Rate equal to 100%.

If you take a withdrawal from an Index Option with the Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy before the Term End Date, you could lose principal and previous earnings because of the Daily Adjustment even if Index performance is positive on that day or has been positive since the Term Start Date. If the current Index return during the Term is negative, the Daily Adjustment for these Index Options could result in losses greater than the protection provided by the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor. In extreme circumstances

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the Daily Adjustment could result in a loss beyond the protection of the Buffer or Floor, but it cannot result in a total loss of -100%. Such losses will be greater if the amount withdrawn (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) is also subject to a withdrawal charge, or is a deduction of Contract fees and expenses.

Risks Associated with Calculation of Performance Credits

We calculate Performance Credits each Term on the Term End Date. Because we calculate Index Returns only on a single date in time, you may experience negative or flat performance even though the Index you selected for a given Crediting Method experienced gains through some, or most, of the Term. If you allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to the Index Options with Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, positive returns are limited by the Trigger Rates. You are not subject, however, to potential negative Performance Credits. The Trigger Rates on the Index Options with Index Precision Strategy, and the Caps on the Index Options with Index Guard Strategy and Index Performance Strategy also limit positive returns and could cause performance to be lower than it would otherwise have been if you invested in a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund designed to track the performance of the applicable Index. For the Index Performance Strategy, we apply the Cap and any Participation Rate for the entire Term length; we do not apply the Cap and any Participation Rate annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option.

The Index Options do not directly participate in the returns of the Indexes or the Indexes’ component securities, and do not receive any dividends payable on these securities. Index returns would be higher if they included the dividends from the component securities. The past ten years of actual average of the annual Index returns without and with dividends would have been as follows:

[To be updated by amendment] 

	January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2022
	S&P 500® Index	Nasdaq-100® Index	Russell 2000® Index	EURO STOXX 50®	iShares® MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Returns without dividends	14.84%	22.67%	12.57%	7.03%	3.79%
Returns with dividends	17.11%	24.05%	14.07%	10.88%	5.90%

Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates may be adjusted on the next Term Start Date and may vary significantly from Term to Term. Changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates may significantly affect the amount of Performance Credit you receive. For more information, see the “Changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates” discussion later in this section.

The Crediting Methods only capture Index Values on the Term Start Date and Term End Date, so you will bear the risk that the Index Value might be abnormally low on these days.

Risks Associated with Performance Locks and Early Reallocations

If a Performance Lock is executed:

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You will no longer participate in Index performance, positive or negative, for the remainder of the Index Year for the locked Index Option. This means that under no circumstances will your Index Option Value increase during the remainder of the Index Year for a locked Index Option, and you will start a new Index Option on the next Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date unless you execute an Early Reallocation.

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You will not receive a Performance Credit on any locked Index Option.

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We use the Daily Adjustment calculated at the end of the current Business Day on the Lock Date to determine your locked Index Option Value. This means you will not be able to determine in advance your locked Index Option Value, and it may be higher or lower than it was at the point in time you requested a Performance Lock, or if you set a lower target your locked Index Option Value could be less than your selected target. Through your account on our website you can request a Performance Lock based on upper and/or lower targets you set using Index Option Value returns.

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If a Performance Lock is executed when your Daily Adjustment has declined, you will lock in any loss. It is possible that you would have realized less of a loss or no loss if the Performance Lock occurred at a later time, or if the Index Option was not locked.

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We will not execute a Performance Lock on Index Protection Strategy with Trigger Index Options if the Daily Adjustment is zero. This may limit your ability to take advantage of the benefits of the Early Reallocation feature.

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There are limits on Early Reallocations. We do not accept Early Reallocation requests within 14 calendar days before an Index Anniversary and you are limited to two Early Reallocation requests each Index Year. After your second Early Reallocation request in an Index Year, any locked Index Options will remain locked until the next Index Anniversary. These limitations mean you may not be able to take advantage of any increases to Early Reallocation rates, or any advantageous changes to Index values that may become available at the optimal time. This may limit your return potential.

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Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates you receive may be less than the Early Reallocation rates that become available later in the Index Year, or the renewal rates available on the next Index Anniversary. This may limit your return potential. 

We will not provide advice or notify you regarding whether you should execute a Performance Lock or Early

Reallocation or the optimal time for doing so. We will not warn you if you execute a Performance Lock or Early

Reallocation at a sub-optimal time. We are not responsible for any losses related to your decision whether or not to

execute a Performance Lock or Early Reallocation.

Substitution of an Index and Limitation on Further Investments

There is no guarantee that the Indexes will be available during the entire time that you own your Contract. Once we add an Index to your Contract, we cannot remove it without simultaneously substituting it. For the Index Options, if we substitute a new Index for an existing Index, the performance of the new Index may be different and this may affect your ability to receive positive Performance Credits. We may substitute a new Index for an existing Index if:

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the Index is discontinued,

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we are unable to use the Index because, for example, changes to an Index make it impractical or expensive to purchase derivative hedging instruments to hedge the Index, or we are not licensed to use the Index,

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the method of calculation of the Index Values changes substantially, resulting in significantly different Index Values and performance results. This could occur, for example, if an Index altered the types of securities tracked, or the weighting of different categories of securities, or

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we determine in our sole discretion that the substitution is necessary. It is our policy that we will exercise this discretion only to respond as we deem necessary to unanticipated events outside of our direct control. This might include other events similar to those listed above, other changes to the Index (such as name or ownership changes) that legally may be considered a substitution or that do not align with our business strategy or values, or a breach by the Index provider of the Index intent or performance expectations.

If we add or substitute an Index, we first seek any required regulatory approval from each applicable state insurance regulator and then provide you with written notice. We also provide you with written notice if an Index changes its name. Index substitutions can occur either on a Term Start Date or during a Term. If we substitute an Index during a Term we will combine the return of the previously available substituted Index from the Term Start Date to the substitution date with the return of the new Index from the substitution date to the Term End Date. If we substitute an Index during a Term:

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we do not change the Charge Base we use to calculate the rider fee, and

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the Buffers, Floors, Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for the substituted Index will apply to the new Index. We do not change the Buffers, Floors, Trigger Rates, Caps, or Participation Rates that were in effect on the Term Start Date.

Changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates associated with the new Index, if any, may occur at the next regularly scheduled Term Start Date. Depending on the constitution of the substituted Index, the volatility of its investments, and our ability to hedge the Index’s performance, we may determine, in our discretion, to increase or decrease renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates associated with the new Index. However, we would not implement any change to reflect this difference until the next Term Start Date after the substitution. The substitution of an Index during a Term may result in an abnormally large change in the Daily Adjustment on the day we substitute the Index.

The selection of a substitution Index is in our discretion; however, it is anticipated that any substitute Index will be substantially similar to the Index it is replacing and we will substitute any equity Index with a broad-based equity index.

We may also discontinue accepting new allocations into a specific Index Option at any time. 

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Changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates

The 10% and 20% Buffers, and -10% Floors for the currently available Index Options do not change. However, if we add a new Index Option to your Contract after the Issue Date, we establish the Buffer or Floor for it on the date we add the Index Option to your Contract. For a new Index Option the minimum Buffer is 5% and the minimum Floor is -25%.

We establish the initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for a newly issued Contract on the Index Effective Date and they cannot change until the next Term Start Date. You select the Index Effective Date when you purchase your Contract. It can be any Business Day from the Issue Date up to and including the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary, but it cannot be the 29th, 30th, or 31st of a month.

You should be aware that, generally, initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates could change every seven calendar days. However, these rates are guaranteed to be available during the period stated on our website at allianzlife.com/RILAratesnf and cannot be superseded until that period ends. If you select an Index Effective Date that is within the guaranteed period for the initial rates that are available for review on the Issue Date, you will receive the initial rates that were available on the Issue Date. However, if you select an Index Effective Date that is after this guaranteed period, you are subject to the risk that initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates may change and be less advantageous to you. You are responsible for reviewing the initial rates before your Index Effective Date to ensure your allocations and the product still meet your needs. Furthermore, if your Index Effective Date is after the end of the free look period and you cancel the Contract, you will receive the Cash Value. On or before the Index Effective Date you are not subject to the Daily Adjustment. You may review future rates at least seven calendar days before their effectiveness at allianzlife.com/RILAratesnf. You (or your Financial Professional, if authorized) can change your Index Effective Date at any time before it occurs to be an earlier or later date by submitting a request.

We can change the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for an existing Contract on each new Term Start Date subject to the guaranteed minimums, in our discretion.

We will send you a letter at least 30 days before each Index Anniversary. This letter advises you that current Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates are expiring, and that renewal rates for the next Term Start Date will be available for your review. The Index Anniversary letter also reminds you of your opportunity to transfer your Index Option Values on the upcoming Term End Date. On each Term End Date you have the option of remaining allocated to your current Index Options at the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates that we set on the next Term Start Date, or transferring to another permitted Index Option. At least seven calendar days before each Index Anniversary we publish renewal rates for the next Term Start Date for your review in your account on our website, and on our public website at allianzlife.com/RILAratesnf. If you do not review renewal change information when it is published, or take no action to transfer to another permitted Index Option, you will remain allocated to your current Index Options and will automatically become subject to the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates until the next Term End Date.

You risk the possibility that the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates you receive may be less than you would find acceptable. If you do not find the renewal rates acceptable, you must give us transfer instructions no later than the end of the Business Day on the Term End Date (or the next Business Day if the Term End Date is a non-Business Day) or you will be subject to these renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for the next Term. When your renewal rates change the only options available to you are to transfer Index Option Value between Index Options, or take a full withdrawal (which may be subject to a withdrawal charge).

If you execute a Performance Lock you may be able to request an Early Reallocation and begin a new Index Option with a new Term Start Date and a new Trigger Rate, Cap, or Participation Rate before the next Index Anniversary. We can change Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for an existing Contract subject to the guaranteed minimums, in our discretion. We publish Early Reallocation rates at least seven calendar days before the end of the current Early Reallocation offering period for your review in your account on our website. If you do not execute an Early Reallocation, you will remain allocated to your current locked Index Options until the Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date.

Initial, renewal, and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates may vary significantly depending upon a variety of factors, including:

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market volatility,

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our hedging strategies and investment performance,

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the availability of hedging instruments,

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the amount of money available to us through Contract fees and expenses to purchase hedging instruments,

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your Index Effective Date,

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the level of interest rates,

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utilization of Contract benefits by Owners, and

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our profitability goals.

Due to a combination of factors, including potential changes in interest rates and other market conditions (e.g. rising inflation), the current economic environment is evolving. The future impact on initial, renewal, and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates cannot be predicted with certainty. The effect of a change in interest rates or other market conditions may not be direct or immediate. There may be a lag in changes to Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates. Interest rates could increase. In a rising interest rate environment, increases in Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates, if any, may be substantially slower than increases in interest rates.

We manage our obligation to provide Performance Credits in part by trading call and put options, and other derivatives on the available Indexes. The costs of the call and put options and other derivatives vary based on market conditions, and we may adjust future renewal and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates to reflect these cost changes. The primary factor affecting the differences in the initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for newly issued Contracts and renewal and Early Reallocation rates for existing Contracts is the difference in what we can earn from these investments for newly issued Contracts versus what we are earning on the investments that were made, and are being held to maturity, for existing Contracts. In some instances we may need to reduce initial, renewal, and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates, or we may need to substitute an Index. You bear the risk that we may reduce Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates, which reduces your opportunity to receive positive Performance Credits.

Investment in Derivative Hedging Instruments

The Index Options are supported by bonds and other fixed income securities which are also used to support the Contract guarantees, cash, and derivative hedging instruments used to hedge the movements of the applicable Index.

At Contract issue, we invest a substantial majority of the initial Contract Value in fixed income securities, with most of the remainder invested in derivative hedging instruments. The derivative hedging instruments are purchased to track and hedge Index movements and support our obligations with regard to the Index Options. The derivative hedging instruments we purchase include put options, call options, futures, swaps, and other derivatives.

We currently limit our purchase of derivative hedging instruments to liquid securities. However, like many types of derivative hedging instruments, these securities may be volatile and their price may vary substantially. In addition, because we pay Performance Credits regardless of the performance of derivative hedging instruments we purchase, we may incur losses on hedging mismatches or errors in hedging. We may incur additional costs if the costs of our hedging program increase due to market conditions or other factors. Our overall experience with hedging securities may affect renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates for existing Contracts.

Risks of Deducting Financial Adviser Fees from the Contract

If you have an investment adviser and want to pay their financial adviser fees from this Contract, you can instruct us to withdraw the fee from your Contract and pay it to your adviser. Once authorized by you, the investment adviser requests each fee payment by submitting a letter of instruction that includes the fee amount. The deduction of financial adviser fees is in addition to this Contract’s fees and expenses, and the deduction is treated the same as any other withdrawal under the Contract. As such, withdrawals to pay financial adviser fees will be subject to withdrawal charges, will reduce the Contract Value and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value (perhaps significantly), and may be subject to income taxes (including a 10% additional federal tax if you are younger than age 59 1∕2). Please consult with your Financial Professional before requesting us to pay financial adviser fees from this Contract rather than from other assets you may have.

Our Financial Strength and Claims-Paying Ability

We make Annuity Payments, and pay death benefits from our general account. Our general account assets are subject to claims by our creditors, and any payment we make from our general account is subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability. We apply Performance Credits from an unregistered, non-unitized, non-insulated separate account (Separate Account IANA). Like our general account, the assets in Separate Account IANA are subject to our general business operation liabilities and the claims of our creditors, and are also subject to our financial strength and claims-paying ability. For more information on Separate Account IANA, see section 12, Other Information – Our Unregistered Separate Account. 

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and interrelated market factors (e.g., market volatility changes in interest rates,

rising inflation, actions by governmental authorities), economic uncertainties have arisen which could negatively impact

Allianz Life’s net income and surplus. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic and these other market factors will

impact our business, net income, and surplus, as well as our capital and liquidity position, will depend on future

developments, which are highly uncertain. For more information see section 13, Information on Allianz Life – Business

and Operational Risks Relevant to the Contract.

Regulatory Protections

Allianz Life is not an investment company and therefore we are not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the protections provided by this Act are not applicable to the guarantees we provide. The Separate Account is, however, registered as an investment company. Any allocations you make to an Index Option are not part of the Separate Account. Allianz Life is not an investment adviser and so is not subject to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and does not provide investment advice to you in connection with your Contract.

Your Contract is registered in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933 and the offering of the Contract must be conducted in accordance with the requirements of this Act. In addition, the offer and sale of the Contract is subject to the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The Contract is filed with and approved by each state in which the Contract is offered. State insurance laws provide a variety of regulatory protections.

1. The Contract

An annuity is a contract between you as the Owner, and an insurance company (in this case Allianz Life), where you make payments to us and we invest that money in the Index Options you select. The AZL Government Money Market Fund holds the money you invest before it is transferred to the Index Options. Depending on market conditions, your Contract may gain or lose value based on the returns of your selected Index Options and the AZL Government Money Market Fund. When you are ready to take money out, we make payments to you according to your instructions and any restrictions associated with the payment option you select that is described in this prospectus. Other than to add benefits that are beneficial to you, we do not make any changes to your Contract without your permission except as may be required by law.

The Contract has an Accumulation Phase and an Annuity Phase.

The Accumulation Phase is the first phase of your Contract, and it begins on the Issue Date. During the Accumulation Phase, we invest your money in the Index Options you select and the AZL Government Money Market Fund on a tax-deferred basis. Tax deferral may not be available for certain non-individually owned contracts. Tax deferral means you are not taxed on any earnings or appreciation on the assets in your Contract until you take money out of your Contract. (For more information, see section 11, Taxes.)

During the Accumulation Phase you can take withdrawals (subject to any withdrawal charge). You can also make additional Purchase Payments subject to the restrictions set out in section 3, Purchase Requirements. The Contract also offers at issue the optional Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit for an additional rider fee (see section 10) if all Owners and the Annuitant are age 75 or younger on the Issue Date. The Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit can only be added to a Contract at issue. The Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit potentially provides a death benefit greater than the Traditional Death Benefit based on the Maximum Anniversary Value (highest Contract Value on any Index Anniversary before age 91, increased by the dollar amount of subsequent Purchase Payments, and reduced proportionately for subsequent withdrawals you take including any withdrawal charge).

If you request Annuity Payments, the Accumulation Phase of your Contract ends and you enter the Annuity Phase. During the Annuity Phase we make regular fixed periodic Annuity Payments based on guaranteed period, life, life with a guaranteed period, joint and last survivor, or joint and 2/3 survivor. We send Annuity Payments to the Payee (the person or entity who receives Annuity Payments during the Annuity Phase). You can choose when Annuity Payments begin, subject to certain restrictions. We base Annuity Payments on your Contract Value and the payout rates for the Annuity Option you select. Your Annuity Payments do not change unless an Annuitant dies. The Annuity Phase ends when we make the last Annuity Payment under your selected Annuity Option. For more information, see section 8, The Annuity Phase.

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When the Accumulation Phase Ends

The Accumulation Phase ends upon the earliest of the following.

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The Business Day we process your request for a full withdrawal.

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The Business Day before the Annuity Date.

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Upon the death of any Owner (or the Annuitant if the Owner is a non-individual), the Business Day we first receive Valid Claim from any one Beneficiary, unless the surviving spouse/Beneficiary continues the Contract. If there are multiple Beneficiaries, the remaining Contract Value continues to fluctuate with the performance of the Index Options and the AZL Government Money Market Fund until the complete distribution of the death benefit. A Valid Claim is the documents we require to be received in Good Order at our Service Center before we pay any death claim.

Financial Adviser Fees

If you have a financial adviser and want to take a withdrawal from this Contract to pay your financial adviser fee, you can submit a written request to our Service Center by completing our third party money management customer authorization of transfer form and fee redemption authorization form. If we approve your request, we withdraw the requested fees and pay them to your Financial Professional or Financial Professional’s firm as instructed. The fee redemption authorization is an agreement between you and your Financial Professional and/or the Financial Professional's firm. The agreement authorizes us to deduct financial adviser fees from the Contract and send them to the Financial Professional or the Financial Professional's firm upon written request. You can terminate this agreement at any time by providing us written notice. We retain the right to request an updated fee redemption authorization form at any time.

Once authorized by you, the Financial Professional or Financial Professional’s Firm requests each fee payment by submitting a letter of instruction that includes the fee amount. We treat this fee payment as a withdrawal which means a withdrawal charge, federal and state income taxes, and a 10% additional federal tax if you are under age 59 1∕2may apply, and the amount of Contract Value available for withdrawal may be affected by the Daily Adjustment (which can be negative). We deduct financial adviser fees (including any withdrawal charge) proportionately from each Index Option and the AZL Government Money Market Fund. This withdrawal reduces the Contract Value and the amount available under the free withdrawal privilege by the dollar amount withdrawn. It may also reduce your Contract's Guaranteed Death Benefit Value proportionately by the percentage of Contract Value withdrawn, which may reduce this value by more than the amount withdrawn and these reductions could be significant. If this is a Non-Qualified Contract, a withdrawal will be a taxable withdrawal to the extent that gain exists within the Contract. Financial adviser fees paid from any type of IRA Contract (including IRA, Roth IRA, and SEP IRA) will not be treated as a taxable withdrawal as long as the annuity contract is solely liable for the payment of the financial adviser fee. You should consult a tax adviser regarding the tax treatment of financial adviser fee payments. Please consult with your Financial Professional before requesting us to pay financial adviser fees from this Contract rather than from other assets you may have.

Your financial adviser acts on your behalf, not ours. We are not party to any agreement between you and your financial adviser, nor are we responsible for your financial adviser’s actions. We do not verify that withdrawals for financial adviser fees align with the terms of your agreement with your financial adviser. We do not set your financial adviser fee or receive any part of it. Any withdrawals for financial adviser fees you pay is in addition to this Contract’s fees and expenses. We pay sales commissions to the selling firms and their Financial Professionals. The maximum commission payable to the selling firms for Contract sales is expected to not exceed 7% of Purchase Payments. Sometimes, we enter into an agreement with a selling firm to pay commissions as a combination of a certain amount of the commission at the time of sale and a trail commission which, when totaled, could exceed 7% of Purchase Payments. Financial Professionals and their managers may also be eligible for various benefits such as production incentive bonuses, insurance benefits, and non-cash compensation items that we may provide jointly with our principal underwriter, Allianz Life Financial Services, LLC. You should ask your financial adviser about compensation they receive for this Contract. Allianz Life is not an investment adviser, and does not provide investment advice in connection with sales of the Contract. We are not a fiduciary to you, and do not make recommendations or assess suitability.

You can submit a written request to our Service Center on a form satisfactory to us to allow your financial adviser to make Index Option transfers and allocation changes on your behalf. However, we reserve the right to review a financial adviser’s trading history before allowing him or her to make transfers. If, in our sole discretion, we believe the financial adviser’s trading history indicates excessive trading, we can deny your request. If we approve it, your financial adviser is subject to the same trading restrictions that apply to Owners. We can deny or revoke trading authority in our sole discretion.

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Financial Adviser Fee Deduction Example

These calculations show the effects of withdrawing financial adviser fees on the Contract Value and available Guaranteed Death Benefit Value. These withdrawals (including any withdrawal charges) immediately reduce the Contract Value on a dollar for dollar basis, and reduce the available Guaranteed Death Benefit Value by the percentage of Contract Value withdrawn.

The example assumes a withdrawal of $5,000 once per year on days that are not Term End Dates to pay financial adviser fees starting when the Contract Value is $100,000, the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Traditional Death Benefit is $90,000, and the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit is $105,000. The first withdrawal assumes that there is no amount remaining under the free withdrawal privilege for that year, so that withdrawal is subject to an 8.5% withdrawal charge. Subsequent withdrawals are all taken under the free withdrawal privilege. All fractional numbers in these examples have been rounded up to the next whole number. All Contract Value figures reflect the Daily Adjustment. 

Financial Adviser Fee Withdrawal	Contract Value	Guaranteed Death Benefit Value for a Contract with the Traditional Death Benefit	Guaranteed Death Benefit Value for a Contract with the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit
Prior to 1st years withdrawal	$ 100,000	$ 90,000	$ 105,000
$5,000 withdrawal (subject to an
8.5% withdrawal charge)	– [($5,000 ÷ (1 – 8.5%)]
Amount withdrawn	– $5,465	– [($5,465 ÷ 100,000) x 90,000]	– [($5,465 ÷ 100,000) x 105,000]
		= - $4,919	= - $5,739
After 1st years withdrawal	$ 94,535	$ 85,081	$ 99,261
Prior to 2nd years withdrawal	$ 97,000	$ 85,081	$ 99,261
$5,000 withdrawal (not subject to a
withdrawal charge)	– $5,000	– [($5,000 ÷ 97,000) x 85,081]	– [($5,000 ÷ 97,000) x 99,261]
		= - $4,386	= - $5,117
After 2nd years withdrawal	$ 92,000	$ 80,695	$ 94,414
Prior to 3rd years withdrawal	$ 80,0000	$ 80,695	$ 94,414
$5,000 withdrawal (not subject to a	– $5,000	– [($5,000 ÷ 80,000) x 80,695]	– [($5,000 ÷ 80,000) x 94,414]
withdrawal charge)		= - $5,044	= - $5,844
After 3rd years withdrawal	$ 75,000	$ 75,651	$ 88,260

The death benefit is the greater of the Contract Value, or the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value, so the death benefit would be:

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$94,535 Contract Value under the Traditional Death Benefit, or the $99,261 Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit after the first adviser fee deduction.

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$92,000 Contract Value under the Traditional Death Benefit, or the $94,414 Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit after the second adviser fee deduction.

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$75,651 Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Traditional Death Benefit, or the $88,260 Guaranteed Death Benefit Value under the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit after the third adviser fee deduction.

When the Contract Ends

The Contract ends when:

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all applicable phases of the Contract (Accumulation Phase and/or Annuity Phase) have ended, and/or

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if we received a Valid Claim, all applicable death benefit payments have been made.

For example, if you take a full withdrawal of the total Cash Value, both the Accumulation Phase and the Contract end even though the Annuity Phase never began and we did not make any death benefit payments.

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2. Ownership, Annuitant, Determining Life, Beneficiary, and Payee

Owner

The Owner designated at Contract issue has all the rights under the Contract. The Owner may be an individual, or a non-individual (e.g. a trust, tax-exempt entity, or corporation). Qualified Contracts and non-individually owned Contracts can only have one Owner. A Qualified Contract is purchased under a pension or retirement plan that qualifies for special tax treatment under sections of the Code.

Joint Owner

A Non-Qualified Contract can be owned by up to two individual Owners (Joint Owners). Joint Owners must be spouses within the meaning of federal tax law. We generally require the signature of both Joint Owners on any forms that are submitted to our Service Center.

Annuitant

The Annuitant is the individual on whose life we base Annuity Payments. Subject to our approval, you designate an Annuitant when you purchase a Contract. For Qualified Contracts, before the Annuity Date the Owner must be the Annuitant unless the Contract is owned by a qualified plan or is part of a custodial arrangement. You can change the Annuitant on an individually owned Non-Qualified Contract at any time before the Annuity Date. You cannot change the Annuitant if the Owner is a non-individual. Subject to our approval, you can add a joint Annuitant on the Annuity Date. For Qualified Contracts, the ability to add a joint Annuitant is subject to any plan requirements associated with the Contract. For individually owned Contracts, if the Annuitant who is not an Owner dies before the Annuity Date, the sole Owner (or younger Joint Owner) automatically becomes the new Annuitant, but the Owner can subsequently name another Annuitant.

Designating different persons as Owner(s) and Annuitant(s) can have important impacts on whether a death benefit is paid, and on who receives it as indicated below. For more examples, please see the Appendix A to the Form N-4 SAI. Use care when designating Owners and Annuitants, and consult your Financial Professional if you have questions. 

UPON THE DEATH OF A SOLE OWNER
Action if the Contract is in the Accumulation Phase	Action if the Contract is in the Annuity Phase
• We pay a death benefit to the Beneficiary unless the Beneficiary is the surviving spouse and continues the Contract. • If the deceased Owner was a Determining Life and the surviving spouse Beneficiary continues the Contract: – we increase the Contract Value to equal the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value if greater and available, and the death benefit ends, – the surviving spouse becomes the new Owner, and – upon the surviving spouse’s death, his or her Beneficiary(s) receives the Contract Value. • If the deceased Owner was not a Determining Life, the Traditional Death Benefit or Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit are not available and the Beneficiary(s) receives the Contract Value.	• The Beneficiary becomes the Payee. If we are still required to make Annuity Payments under the selected Annuity Option, the Beneficiary also becomes the new Owner. • If the deceased was not an Annuitant, Annuity Payments to the Payee continue. No death benefit is payable. • If the deceased was the only surviving Annuitant, Annuity Payments end or continue as follows. – Annuity Option A or C, payments end when the guaranteed period ends. – Annuity Option B, F, or G, payments end. – For more information on the Annuity Options, please see section 8. •  If the deceased was an Annuitant and there is a surviving joint Annuitant, Annuity Payments to the Payee continue during the lifetime of the surviving joint Annuitant. No death benefit is payable.

Determining Life (Lives)

The Determining Life (Lives) are the individuals on whose life we base the Guaranteed Death Benefit Value provided by the Traditional Death Benefit or Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit. We establish the Determining Life (Lives) at Contract issue. For an individually owned Contract the Determining Life (Lives) are the Owner(s). For a non-individually owned Contract the Determining Life is the Annuitant. After the Issue Date the Determining Life (Lives) only change if:

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you remove a Joint Owner due to divorce, then we also remove that person as a Determining Life,

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you add or change a Joint Owner, then that person will become a Determining Life if they are the current spouse within the meaning of federal tax law of an existing Owner, or 

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you establish a jointly owned Non-Qualified Contract and change ownership to a Trust, then we remove the prior Owner who is not the Annuitant as a Determining Life.

Beneficiary

The Beneficiary is the person(s) or entity you designate to receive any death benefit. You can change the Beneficiary or contingent Beneficiary at any time before your death unless you name an irrevocable Beneficiary. If a Beneficiary dies before you, or you and a Beneficiary die within 120 hours of each other, that Beneficiary’s interest in this Contract ends unless your Beneficiary designation specifies otherwise. If there are no surviving primary Beneficiaries, we pay the death benefit to the contingent Beneficiaries who survive you. If there are no surviving Beneficiaries or if there is no named Beneficiary, we pay the death benefit to your estate or the Owner if the Owner is a non-individual. 

• FOR JOINTLY OWNED CONTRACTS: The sole primary Beneficiary is the surviving Joint Owner regardless of

any other named primary Beneficiaries. If both Joint Owners die within 120 hours of each other, we pay the death

benefit to the named contingent Beneficiaries or equally to the estate of the Joint Owners if there are no named

contingent Beneficiaries.

• NAMING AN ESTATE AS A BENEFICIARY: If an estate is the Beneficiary, the estate must be the sole primary

Beneficiary, unless the Spouse is the sole primary Beneficiary. If the Spouse is the sole primary Beneficiary, then an

estate can be a contingent beneficiary.

Payee

The Payee is the person or entity who receives Annuity Payments during the Annuity Phase. The Owner receives tax reporting on those payments. Generally we require the Payee to be an Owner. However, we may allow you to name a charitable trust, financial institution, qualified plan, or an individual specified in a court order as a Payee subject to our approval. For Qualified Contracts owned by a qualified plan, the qualified plan must be the Payee.

Assignments, Changes of Ownership and Other Transfers of Contract Rights

You can assign your rights under this Contract to someone else during the Accumulation Phase. An assignment may be absolute or limited, and includes changes of ownership, collateral assignments, or any other transfer of specific Contract rights. After an assignment, you may need the consent of the assignee of record to exercise certain Contract rights depending on the type of assignment and the rights assigned.

The Contract cannot be assigned without our consent. You must submit your request to assign the Contract in writing to our Service Center. We will not consent if the assignment would violate or result in noncompliance with any applicable state or federal law or regulation.

We record the assignment as of the date you signed the request, unless you specify otherwise. We are not responsible for the validity or effect of the assignment. We are not liable for any actions we take or payments we make before we receive your request in Good Order and record it. A request is in “Good Order” when it contains all the information we require to process it. Assigning the Contract does not change, revoke or replace the originally named Annuitant or Beneficiary; if you also want to change the Annuitant or Beneficiary you must make a separate request. 

• An assignment may be a taxable event. In addition, there are other restrictions on changing the ownership of a

Qualified Contract and Qualified Contracts generally cannot be assigned absolutely or on a limited basis. You should

consult with your tax adviser before assigning this Contract.

• An assignment will only change the Determining Life (Lives) if it involves removing a Joint Owner due to

divorce, replacing Joint Owners with a Trust, or adding a Joint Owner if that person is a spouse within the

meaning of federal tax law of the existing Owner.

3. Purchasing the Contract

Purchase Requirements

To purchase this Contract, on the Issue Date all Owners and the Annuitant must be:

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age 85 or younger, or

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age 75 or younger if you select the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit.

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The Purchase Payment requirements for this Contract are as follows.

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The minimum initial Purchase Payment due on the Issue Date is $10,000.

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We restrict additional Purchase Payments. Each Index Year during the Accumulation Phase you cannot add more than your initial amount without our prior approval. Your initial amount is all Purchase Payments received before the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary of the first Contract Year. We allow you to add up to the initial amount in the remainder of the first Index Year. The minimum additional Purchase Payment we will accept is $50.

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We do not accept additional Purchase Payments on or after the Annuity Date.

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The maximum total Purchase Payments we accept without our prior approval is $1 million.

We may, at our sole discretion, waive the minimum Purchase Payment requirements.

Once we receive your initial Purchase Payment and all necessary information in Good Order at our Service Center, we issue the Contract within two Business Days and allocate your payment to the AZL Government Money Market Fund before we transfer it to your selected Index Options. If the Issue Date is the same as the Index Effective Date we allocate your initial Purchase Payment to the Index Options. If the Issue Date is not the Index Effective Date we hold your initial Purchase Payment in the AZL Government Money Market Fund before we transfer it to your selected Index Options. If you do not give us all of the information we need, we contact you or your Financial Professional. If for some reason we are unable to complete this process within five Business Days, we either send back your Purchase Payment or get your permission to keep it until we get all of the necessary information. If you make additional Purchase Payments, we add this money to your Contract on the Business Day we receive it in Good Order.

If you submit a Purchase Payment and/or application to your Financial Professional, we do not begin processing the payment and/or application until we receive it.

We may terminate your ability to make additional Purchase Payments because we reserve the right to decline any or all Purchase Payments at any time on a nondiscriminatory basis. This applies to Contracts issued in all states except as disclosed in Appendix D. If mandated under applicable law, we may be required to reject a Purchase Payment. We will decline a Purchase Payment we receive on the same Business Day that we receive in Good Order a request for full withdrawal, or Contract cancellation during the free look period. If we exercise our right to decline additional Purchase Payments, this may limit your ability to fund your Contract’s guaranteed benefits such as the Traditional Death Benefit or Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit.

Applications Sent Electronically

We accept manually signed applications that are in Good Order and are sent by fax, or email, or uploaded to our website. It is important to verify receipt of any faxed application, or to receive a confirmation number when using email or the web. We are not liable for applications that we do not receive. A manually signed application sent by fax, email or over the web is considered the same as an application delivered by mail. Our electronic systems (fax, email or website) may not always be available; any electronic system can experience outages or slowdowns which may delay application processing. Although we have taken precautions to help our system handle heavy use, we cannot promise complete reliability. If you experience problems, please submit your written application by mail to our Service Center. We reserve the right to discontinue or modify our electronic application policy at any time and for any reason.

Allocation of Purchase Payments and Contract Value Transfers

The allocation instructions you provide on your application automatically become your default allocation instructions. We use these allocation instructions for all Purchase Payments we receive unless you change them. We only allow Purchase Payments to move into the Index Options on the Index Effective Date and on subsequent Index Anniversaries. As a result, we hold Purchase Payments we receive on days other than the Index Effective Date or an Index Anniversary in the AZL Government Money Market Fund until we transfer them to your selected Index Options according to your most recent allocation instructions. For additional Purchase Payments we receive after the Index Effective Date, this transfer occurs on the next Index Anniversary. We apply any Purchase Payments we receive on the Index Effective Date or on an Index Anniversary directly to the Index Options on that day; these Purchase Payments are not held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

We only allow Index Option Value transfers between Index Options on Term End Dates unless you execute a Performance Lock. If you execute a Performance Lock you can transfer out of a locked Index Option to another Index Option on the Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date, or on the Business Day we execute your request for an Early Reallocation. We do not allow assets to move into an established Index Option until the Term

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End Date. If you request to transfer into an established Index Option on a date that is not a Term End Date, we will transfer those assets into the same Index Option with a new Term Start Date.

You select the Index Effective Date when you purchase your Contract. It can be any Business Day up to and including the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary, but it cannot be the 29th, 30th or 31st of a month. 

On your application if you select…	Your Index Effective Date will be either…
the earliest Index Effective Date	• your Issue Date, or • the first Business Day of the next month if the Issue Date is the 29th, 30th, or 31st of a month
the deferred Index Effective Date	• your first Quarterly Contract Anniversary, or • the next Business Day if the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary occurs on a non-Business Day, or the first Business Day of the next month if the first Quarterly Contract Anniversary is the 29th, 30th, or 31st of a month

You should be aware that, generally, initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates could change every seven calendar days. However, these rates are guaranteed to be available during the period stated on our website at allianzlife.com/RILAratesnf and cannot be superseded until that period ends. If you select an Index Effective Date that is within the guaranteed period for the initial rates that are available for review on the Issue Date, you will receive the initial rates that were available on the Issue Date. However, if you select an Index Effective Date that is after this guaranteed period, you are subject to the risk that initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates may change and be less advantageous to you. Furthermore, if your Index Effective Date is after the end of the free look period and you cancel your Contract, you will receive the Cash Value. On or before the Index Effective Date you are not subject to the Daily Adjustment. You may review future rates at least seven calendar days before their effectiveness at allianzlife.com/RILAratesnf. You (or your Financial Professional, if authorized) can change your Index Effective Date at any time before it occurs to be an earlier or later date by submitting a request. However, your new Index Effective Date cannot be later than the deferred Index Effective Date listed above. We must receive your request in Good Order at our Service Center before the end of the Business Day on which you want the Index Effective Date to occur. Once your Index Effective Date occurs, all Index Options for your Contract will have the same Index Anniversary.

You can change your allocation instructions at any time without fee or penalty. These changes are effective on the Business Day we receive them in Good Order at our Service Center. We accept changes to allocation instructions from any Owner unless you instruct otherwise. We may allow you to authorize someone else to change these allocation instructions on your behalf. Changes to your allocation instructions will transfer existing Index Option Values on the Term End Date.

We notify you at least 30 days in advance of each Index Anniversary as a reminder that on the upcoming anniversary you may transfer Index Option Value between Index Options. You request transfers between Index Options by changing your allocation instructions. For more information, see the “Electronic Allocation Instructions” discussion next in this section. On each Term End Date, if we have not received allocation instruction changes from you all assets invested continue to be invested in the same Index Options with a new Term Start Date at the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates.

We can add new Crediting Methods, Terms, and Indexes to your Contract in the future, and you can allocate Purchase Payments or transfer Contract Value to them on the next Index Anniversary after we make them available to you. Once we add a Crediting Method to your Contract we cannot remove it, or change how it calculates Performance Credits. If we add a new Index Option to your Contract, we cannot change its Buffer or Floor after it is established. For a new Index Option the minimum Buffer is 5% and the minimum Floor is -25%. However, we can change the renewal Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates associated with any Index Option on each Term Start Date, and Early Reallocation rates, subject to the guaranteed minimums.

We must receive all Index Option allocation instruction changes (which will transfer your Index Option Values) in Good Order at our Service Center before the end of the Business Day on the Term End Date (or the next Business Day if the Term End Date is a non-Business Day). 

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• In order to apply Purchase Payments we receive after the Index Effective Date to your selected Index Option(s) on

the next Index Anniversary, we must receive them before the end of the Business Day on the Index Anniversary (or

before the end of the prior Business Day if the anniversary is a non-Business Day).

• Purchase Payments we hold in the AZL Government Money Market before transferring them to your selected

Index Options are subject to Contract fees and expenses (e.g. contract maintenance charge), and market risk and

may lose value.

Electronic Allocation Instructions

We use reasonable procedures to confirm that electronic allocation instructions given to us are genuine. If we do not use such procedures, we may be liable for any losses due to unauthorized or fraudulent instructions. We record telephone instructions and log all fax, email and website instructions. We reserve the right to deny any allocation instruction change, and to discontinue or modify our electronic instruction privileges at any time for any reason.

Please note that telephone, fax, email and/or the website may not always be available. Any electronic system, whether it is ours, yours, your service provider’s, or your Financial Professional’s, can experience outages or slowdowns for a variety of reasons, which may delay or prevent our processing of your allocation instruction change. Although we have taken precautions to help our systems handle heavy use, we cannot promise complete reliability. If you are experiencing problems, you should submit your instructions in writing to our Service Center.

By authorizing electronic instructions, you authorize us to accept and act upon these instructions for your Contract. There are risks associated with electronic communications that do not occur with a written request. Anyone authorizing or making such requests bears those risks. You should protect your website password, because the website is available to anyone with your password; we cannot verify that the person providing instructions on the website is you, or is authorized by you.

Free Look/Right To Examine Period

If you change your mind about the Contract, you can cancel it within the free look period stated on the first page of your Contract. In most states, this is ten calendar days after you receive the Contract. If you cancel your Contract during the free look period, in most states we return your Contract Value as of the Business Day we receive your cancellation request in Good Order. This may be more or less than your initial Purchase Payment. In states that require us to return Purchase Payments less withdrawals if you cancel your Contract, we return Contract Value if greater.

IRA Contracts require us to return Purchase Payments less withdrawals. If you cancel your IRA Contract, we return the greater of Purchase Payments less withdrawals or Contract Value.

If your cancellation request occurs after the Index Effective Date, your Contract Value will include the Daily Adjustment.

Some states and certain IRA Contracts require return of Purchase Payments. For these Contracts, we reserve the right to hold your initial Purchase Payment in the AZL Government Money Market Fund until the free look period ends, and then re-allocate your Contract Value, less fees and expenses, according to your Purchase Payment default instructions. If we exercise this right, the Contract Value we use to determine your refund amount on a cancellation request will not include the Daily Adjustment as the Index Effective Date will not yet have occurred. Currently we only exercise this right on certain Contracts issued in California as noted in Appendix D. If we hold your initial Purchase Payment in the AZL Government Money Market Fund during the free look period and the requested Index Effective Date would occur during this time, we change your Index Effective Date to the next Business Day after the free look period that is not the 29th, 30th or 31st of the month. Then, if you:

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cancel your Contract during this time, we return the greater of Purchase Payments less withdrawals, or Contract Value. We do not assess a withdrawal charge or deduct any other Contract fees or expenses if you cancel your Contract during the free look period. If you take a withdrawal (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) that is subject to a withdrawal charge and then cancel your Contract during the free look period, we will refund any previously deducted withdrawal charge upon cancellation.

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do not cancel your Contract during this time, we re-allocate your Contract Value to the Index Options according to your Purchase Payment default instructions on the Index Effective Date.

In the Contract, the free look provision is also called the right to examine.

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4. Valuing Your Contract

Your Contract Value is the total of the Variable Account Value and all Index Option Values. 

Variable Account Value increases when….	Variable Account Value decreases when….
• you make additional Purchase Payments and we hold them in the AZL Government Money Market Fund before transferring them to your selected Index Options, or • there is positive AZL Government Money Market Fund performance	• we take assets out of the AZL Government Money Market Fund for withdrawals (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) or transfers to your selected Index Options, • there is negative AZL Government Money Market Fund performance, or • we deduct Contract fees and expenses
Contract fees and expenses we deduct from the AZL Government Money Market Fund include the rider fee, contract maintenance charge, and withdrawal charge  as described in section 6, Expenses. Financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract are described in section 1, The Contract.

The AZL Government Money Market Fund does not provide any protection against loss of principal. You can lose principal and previous earnings for Purchase Payments held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund. 

Index Option Values increase when….	Index Option Values decrease when….
• you add assets to an Index Option by Purchase Payment or Contract Value transfer, or • you receive a positive Performance Credit or Daily Adjustment	• you take assets out of an Index Option by withdrawal (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) or Contract Value transfer, • you receive a negative Performance Credit or Daily Adjustment, or • we deduct Contract fees and expenses
Contract fees and expenses we deduct from the Index Options include the rider fee, contract maintenance charge, and withdrawal charge  as described in section 6, Expenses. Financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract are described in section 1, The Contract.

We apply transfers of Contract Value and Purchase Payments to the Index Options on the Index Effective Date and Index Anniversaries. We apply Performance Credits to the Index Options on the Term End Dates. Contract expenses are deducted at different times during the Index Year as stated in section 6, Expenses. We pay financial adviser fees to your Financial Professional or the Financial Professional's firm upon written request as stated in section 1, The Contract. The Daily Adjustment applies on any Business Day other than the Term Start Date or the Term End Date.

Performance Credits are subject to the applicable Buffer, Floor, Trigger Rate, Cap, and/or Participation Rate. Positive Performance Credits are not guaranteed and Performance Credits can be zero under all the Index Options. Performance Credits can be negative after application of the 10% or 20% Buffer for any Index Option with the Index Precision Strategy or Index Performance Strategy, or negative down to the -10% Floor for any Index Option with the Index Guard Strategy. A negative Performance Credit means that you can lose principal and previous earnings. These losses can be significant.

We require that the Contract Value after a partial withdrawal must be at least $2,000.* We reserve the right to treat a partial withdrawal that reduces the Contract Value below this minimum as a full withdrawal.

*

Does not apply to RMD payments under our minimum distribution program.

Determining Variable Account Value

The Separate Account holds the assets for the Purchase Payments held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund before we transfer them to the Index Options. The Separate Account is divided into subaccounts, one of which invests exclusively in the shares of the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

We convert Purchase Payments held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund into subaccount accumulation units. The subaccount’s daily price (accumulation unit value) is based on the AZL Government Money Market Fund’s price. The AZL Government Money Market Fund’s price is typically determined at the end of each Business Day, and any Purchase

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Payment received at or after the end of the current Business Day receives the next Business Day’s price. The AZL Government Money Market Fund's price reflects deduction of its operating expenses.

We calculate your Variable Account Value at the end of each Business Day by multiplying the subaccount’s accumulation unit value by its number of accumulation units.

On the Issue Date, the number of accumulation units in the subaccount is equal to the amount allocated to the subaccount divided by its accumulation unit value. At the end of each Business Day, the number of subaccount accumulation units:

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increase when we add Purchase Payments to the AZL Government Money Market Fund, and

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decrease when assets are removed from the AZL Government Money Market Fund by transfer, withdrawals you request (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), or when we deduct Contract fees and expenses.

We arbitrarily set the initial accumulation unit value for the subaccount. At the end of each Business Day, we determine the new accumulation unit value for the subaccount by multiplying the prior Business Day’s accumulation unit value by the AZL Government Money Market Fund’s percentage change in price since the prior Business Day. The percentage change in price includes the AZL Government Money Market Fund’s market performance.

Example

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We receive at our Service Center an additional Purchase Payment of $3,000 from you before the end of the Business Day.

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When the New York Stock Exchange closes on that Business Day, we determine that the accumulation unit value is $13.25 for the subaccount of the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

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We then divide $3,000 by $13.25 and credit your Contract that night with 226.415094 subaccount accumulation units for the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

How the Crediting Methods Work

The Index Protection Strategy with Trigger provides a Performance Credit equal to the Trigger Rate if the Index Value on the Term End Date is equal to or greater than the Index Value on the Term Start Date, regardless of the amount of actual Index Return. If the current Index Value is less than it was on the Term Start Date, the Performance Credit is zero.

The Index Precision Strategy provides a Performance Credit.

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If the Index Value on the Term End Date is equal to or greater than the Index Value on the Term Start Date, regardless of the amount of actual Index Return, the Performance Credit is equal to the Trigger Rate.

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If the Index Return is negative and the loss is:

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less than or equal to the 10% Buffer, the Performance Credit is zero. We absorb any loss up to the 10% Buffer.

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greater than the 10% Buffer, the negative Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% Buffer. You participate in any losses beyond the 10% Buffer.

The Index Guard Strategy also provides a Performance Credit.

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If the Index Return is positive, the Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return up to the Cap.

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If the Index Value on the Term End Date is equal to the Index Value on the Term Start Date, the Performance Credit is zero.

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If the Index Return is negative, the negative Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return down to the -10% Floor. You participate in any losses down to the -10% Floor. We absorb any negative Index Return beyond the -10% Floor.

The Index Performance Strategy also provides a Performance Credit.

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If the Index Return is positive, the Performance Credit is equal to:

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the Index Return up to the Cap for a 1-year Term. If the 1-year Term is uncapped, the Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return.

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Index Return multiplied by the Participation Rate, up to the Cap for a 3-year or 6-year Term. If the 3-year or 6-year Term is uncapped, the Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return multiplied by the Participation Rate. We apply the Participation Rate and Cap for the entire Term length; we do not apply the Participation Rate and Cap annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term.

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If the Index Value on the Term End Date is equal to the Index Value on the Term Start Date, the Performance Credit is zero.

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If the Index Return is negative and the loss is:

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less than or equal to the 10% or 20% Buffer, the Performance Credit is zero. We absorb any loss up to the 10% or 20% Buffer. We apply the Buffer for the entire Term length; we do not apply the Buffer annually on a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option.

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greater than the 10% or 20% Buffer, the negative Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% or 20% Buffer. You participate in any losses beyond the 10% or 20% Buffer. 

• The Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, and Index Performance Strategy allow negative

Performance Credits. A negative Performance Credit means you can lose principal and previous earnings. These

losses could be significant.

• Because we calculate Index Returns only on a single date in time, you may experience negative or flat

performance even though the Index you selected for a given Crediting Method experienced gains through

some, or most, of the Term.

• If a an Index Performance Strategy Index Option is “uncapped” for one Term (i.e., we do not declare a Cap

for that Term) it does not mean that we will not declare a Cap for it on future Term Start Dates. On the next

Term Start Date we can declare a Cap for the next Term, or declare it to be uncapped.

Comparing Crediting Methods

The Crediting Methods have different risk and return potentials. 

What is the asset protection?
Index Protection Strategy with Trigger	• Most protection. • If the Index loses value, the Performance Credit is zero. You do not receive a negative Performance Credit.
Index Precision Strategy	• Less protection than the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger and Index Guard Strategy. Protection may be equal to or less than what is available with the Index Performance Strategy depending on the Index Option. • Buffer absorbs 10% of loss, but you receive a negative Performance Credit for losses greater than 10%. • Potential for large losses in any Term. • More sensitive to large negative market movements because small negative market movements are absorbed by the 10% Buffer. In a period of extreme negative market performance, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Precision Strategy than with the Index Guard Strategy.
Index Guard Strategy	• Less protection than the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, but more than Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy. • Permits a negative Performance Credit down to the -10% Floor. • Protection from significant losses. • More sensitive to smaller negative market movements that persist over time because the -10% Floor reduces the impact of large negative market movements. • In an extended period of smaller negative market returns, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Guard Strategy than with the Index Performance Strategy and Index Precision Strategy. • Provides certainty regarding the maximum loss in any Term.
Index Performance Strategy	• Less protection than the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger and Index Guard Strategy. 3-year Term Index Options with 20% Buffer have more protection than what is available with the Index Precision Strategy. • Buffer absorbs 10% or 20% of loss depending on the Index Option you select, but you receive a negative Performance Credit for losses greater than the Buffer. • Potential for large losses in any Term. • More sensitive to large negative market movements because small negative market movements are absorbed by the Buffer. In a period of extreme negative market performance, the risk of loss is greater with the Index Performance Strategy than with the Index Guard Strategy. • In extended periods of moderate to large negative market performance, 3-year and 6-year Terms may provide less protection than the 1-year Terms because, in part, the Buffer is applied over a longer period of time.

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What is the growth opportunity?
Index Protection Strategy with Trigger	• Growth opportunity limited by the Trigger Rates. • Least growth opportunity. • May perform best in periods of small positive market movements. • These Trigger Rates will generally be less than Caps and the Index Precision Strategy Trigger Rates.
Index Precision Strategy	• Growth opportunity limited by the Trigger Rates. • May perform best in periods of small positive market movements. • Generally more growth opportunity than the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, but less than the Index Performance Strategy. • Growth opportunity may be more or less than the Index Guard Strategy depending on Trigger Rates and Caps.
Index Guard Strategy	• Growth opportunity limited by the Caps. • May perform best in a strong market. • Growth opportunity that generally may be matched or exceeded only by the Index Performance Strategy. However, growth opportunity may be more or less than the Index Precision Strategy or Index Performance Strategy depending on Trigger Rates and Caps.
Index Performance Strategy	• Growth opportunity limited by the Caps and/or Participation Rates. If we do not declare a Cap for a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option there is no maximum limit on the positive Index Return for that Index Option. In addition, you can receive more than the positive Index Return if the Participation Rate applies and is greater than its 100% minimum. However, the Participation Rate cannot boost Index Returns beyond a declared Cap. • May perform best in a strong market. • Generally the most growth opportunity. However, growth opportunity may be less than the Index Precision Strategy or Index Guard Strategy depending on Trigger Rates, Caps, and/or Participation Rates.

 

What can change within a Crediting Method?
Index Protection Strategy with Trigger	• Renewal and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates for existing Contracts can change on each Term Start Date. – 1-year Term has a 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate.
Index Precision Strategy	• Renewal and Early Reallocation Trigger Rates for existing Contracts can change on each Term Start Date. – 1-year Term has a 0.10% minimum Trigger Rate. • The 10% Buffers for the currently available Index Options cannot change. However, if we add a new Index Option to your Contract after the Issue Date, we establish the Buffer for it on the date we add the Index Option to your Contract. The minimum Buffer is 5% for a new Index Option.
Index Guard Strategy	• Renewal and Early Reallocation Caps for existing Contracts can change on each Term Start Date. – 1-year Term has a 0.10% minimum Cap. • The -10% Floors for the currently available Index Options cannot change. However, if we add a new Index Option to your Contract after the Issue Date, we establish the Floor for it on the date we add the Index Option to your Contract. The minimum Floor is -25% for a new Index Option.
Index Performance Strategy	• Renewal and Early Reallocation Caps and/or Participation Rates for existing Contracts can change on each Term Start Date. – 1-year Term with 10% Buffer has a 0.10% minimum Cap. – 3-year Term with 10% or 20% Buffer has a 2% minimum Cap, and 100% minimum Participation Rate. – 6-year Term with 10% Buffer has a 5% minimum Cap, and 100% minimum Participation Rate. • The 10% or 20% Buffers for the currently available Index Options cannot change. However, if we add a new Index Option to your Contract after the Issue Date, we establish the Buffer for it on the date we add the Index Option to your Contract. The minimum Buffer is 5% for a new Index Option.

 

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• For any Index Option with the Index Precision Strategy or Index Performance Strategy,you participate in any

negative Index Return in excess of the Buffer, which reduces your Contract Value. For example, for a 10% Buffer we

absorb the first -10% of Index Return and you could lose up to 90% of the Index Option Value. However, for any

Index Option with the Index Guard Strategy, we absorb any negative Index Return in excess of the -10% Floor, so

your maximum loss is limited to -10% of the Index Option Value due to negative Index Returns.

• Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates as set by us from time-to-time may vary substantially based on market

conditions. However, in extreme market environments, it is possible that all Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation

Rates will be reduced to their respective minimums of 0.10%, 2%, 5%, or 100% as stated in the table above.

• If your Contract is within its free look period you may be able to take advantage of any increase in initial Trigger

Rates, Caps, and/or Participation Rates by cancelling your Contract and purchasing a new Contract.

• If the initial Trigger Rates, Caps, and/or Participation Rates available on the Index Effective Date are not acceptable

you have the following options.

– Cancel your Contract if you are still within the free look period. If you took a withdrawal that was subject to a

withdrawal charge (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) we will refund

any previously deducted withdrawal charge upon a free look cancellation.

– Request to extend your Index Effective Date if you have not reached your first Quarterly Contract Anniversary.

– If the free look period has expired, request a full withdrawal and receive the Cash Value. If this occurs on or before

the Index Effective Date, you are not subject to the Daily Adjustment. If this occurs after the Index Effective Date,

you are subject to the Daily Adjustment.

• Trigger Rates, Caps, and Participation Rates can be different from Index Option to Index Option. For example,

Caps for the Index Performance Strategy 1-year Terms can be different between the S&P 500® Index and the

Nasdaq-100® Index; and Caps for the S&P 500® Index can be different between 1-year, 3-year, and 6-year Terms on

the Index Performance Strategy, and between the 1-year Terms for the Index Guard Strategy and Index Performance

Strategy. Initial, renewal, and Early Reallocation rates may also be different from Contract-to-Contract. For

example, assume that on August 3, 2023 we set Caps for the Index Performance Strategy 1-year Term with 10% Buffer

using the S&P 500® Index as follows:

– 13% initial rate and 12% Early Reallocation rate for new Contracts issued in 2023,

– 14% renewal rate and 14% Early Reallocation rate for existing Contracts issued in 2022, and

– 12% renewal rate and 13% Early Reallocation rate for existing Contracts issued in 2021.

Bar Chart Examples of Crediting Method Performance

The following hypothetical examples show conceptually how the Crediting Methods might work in different market environments and assume no change in the hypothetical Trigger Rates, Caps, and/or Participation Rates. All values below are for illustrative purposes only. The examples do not reflect any Trigger Rates, Caps, and/or Participation Rates that may actually apply to a Contract. The examples do not predict or project the actual performance of the Index Advantage+ NFSM. Although an Index or Indexes will affect your Index Option Values, the Index Options do not directly participate in any stock or equity investment and are not a direct investment in an Index. The Index Values do not include the dividends paid on the stocks comprising an Index. An allocation to an Index Option is not a purchase of shares of any stock or index fund. These examples do not reflect any withdrawals taken before the Term End Date (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), or deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses.

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Determining Index Option Values

We calculate an Index Option Value for each Index Option at the end of each Business Day. Generally, the Index Option Value is equal to the Index Option Base plus any applicable Daily Adjustment. The Daily Adjustment applies on Business Days other than the Term Start Date or the Term End Date. The Daily Adjustment can be positive or negative and is discussed later in this section.

On the first Term Start Date, both the Index Option Value and the Index Option Base for each of your selected Index Options are initially equal to the amount of:

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any Purchase Payment received that day which you allocated to that Index Option, and

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any Contract Value transferred into that Index Option.

At the end of each subsequent Business Day for each selected Index Option, we first either apply:

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the Daily Adjustment if this is not the Term End Date, or

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a Performance Credit if this is the Term End Date.

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We calculate Performance Credits as described under “Calculating Performance Credits” next in this section and apply them as follows:

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We multiply each Index Option Base by its Performance Credit and add this amount to its Index Option Base.

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Then we set each Index Option Value equal to its Index Option Base.

Lastly, we increase and/or decrease each Index Option Base and Index Option Value for additional Purchase Payments, transfers, partial withdrawals you take (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract and any withdrawal charge), and deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses.

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Additional Purchase Payments received on the Term End Date and allocated to this Index Option, and transfers of Variable Account Value or Index Option Value into this Index Option, increase these values by the dollar amount allocated or transferred.

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Transfers out of this Index Option reduce these values by the dollar amount removed from the Index Option.

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Partial withdrawals you take (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract and any withdrawal charge), and deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses reduce these values by the dollar amount withdrawn from the Index Option.

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We deduct partial withdrawals you take (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract and any withdrawal charge), and deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses from the Index Options proportionately based on the percentage of Contract Value in each Index Option using values determined at the end of the Business Day before we process the withdrawal or deduct the Contract expense.

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We then reduce each Index Option Base by the same percentage that the amount withdrawn reduced its associated Index Option Value.

Example

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Your Contract Value is $100,000 and you selected two Index Options. The first Index Option has an Index Option Value of $75,000 and an Index Option Base of $72,000. The second Index Option has an Index Option Value of $25,000 and an Index Option Base of $22,000. You take a $10,000 partial withdrawal (including any withdrawal charge).

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This partial withdrawal reduces your Index Option Value by the percentage of Contract Value in each Index Option (Index Option Value ÷ Contract Value).

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For the first Index Option this percentage is 75% ($75,000 ÷ $100,000) and the $10,000 partial withdrawal reduces this value by $7,500 ($10,000 x 75%). For the second Index Option this percentage is 25% ($25,000 ÷ $100,000) and the $10,000 partial withdrawal reduces this value by $2,500 ($10,000 x 25%).

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We then reduce each Index Option Base by the same percentage that the amount withdrawn reduced its associated Index Option Value (amount withdrawn from Index Option Value ÷ Index Option Value).

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For the first Index Option this percentage is 10% ($7,500 ÷ $75,000) and the $10,000 partial withdrawal reduces this value by $7,200 ($72,000 x 10%). For the second Index Option this percentage is also 10% ($2,500 ÷ $25,000) and the $10,000 partial withdrawal reduces this value by $2,200 ($22,000 x 10%).

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Deductions we make for Contract fees and expenses also reduce these values proportionately in the same way as a partial withdrawal. 

	First Index Option		Second Index Option
	Index Option Value	Index Option Base	Index Option Value	Index Option Base
Prior to partial withdrawal	$ 75,000	$ 72,000	$ 25,000	$ 22,000
$10,000 partial withdrawal	– $7,500	– $7,200	– $2,500	– $2,200
After partial withdrawal	$ 67,500	$ 64,800	$ 22,500	$ 19,800

 

• Amounts removed from the Index Options during the Term for partial withdrawals you take (including any

financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) and deductions we make for Contract

fees and expenses do not receive a Performance Credit on the Term End Date. However, the remaining amount

in the Index Options is eligible for a Performance Credit on the Term End Date.

• You cannot specify from which Index Option or the AZL Government Money Market Fund (if applicable) we deduct

Contract fees and expenses; we deduct Contract fees and expenses from each Index Option and the AZL Government

Money Market Fund proportionately based on its percentage of Contract Value.

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Calculating Performance Credits

We base Performance Credits on Index Values and Index Returns. We measure Index Values on the Term Start Date and Term End Date using the Index’s price at the end of the Business Day as provided by Bloomberg or another market source if Bloomberg is not available. If the Term Start Date or Term End Date is a non-Business Day we use the next Business Day’s Index price. If you select the EURO STOXX 50®, we determine Index Returns without any exchange rate adjustment. Because we calculate Index Returns only on Term End Dates, the Index Return does not necessarily reflect the highest or lowest Index Values that occurred during the Term. 

Crediting Method and Term Length	If Index Value is less than it was on the Term Start Date (i.e., Index Return is negative):	If Index Value is equal to or greater than it was on the Term Start Date (i.e., Index Return is zero or positive):
Index Protection Strategy with Trigger 1-year Term	Performance Credit is zero	Performance Credit is equal to the Trigger Rate set on the Term Start Date
Index Precision Strategy 1-year Term	Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% Buffer If the Index Return is… • -8%, the Performance Credit is zero. • -12%, the Performance Credit is -2%.	Performance Credit is equal to the Trigger Rate set on the Term Start Date
Index Guard Strategy 1-year Term	Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return subject to the -10% Floor If the Index Return is… • -8%, the Performance Credit is -8%. • -12%, the Performance Credit is -10%.	Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return up to the Cap set on the Term Start Date Assume the Cap is 8%. If the Index Return is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 6%, the Performance Credit is 6%. • 12%, the Performance Credit is 8%.
Index Performance Strategy 1-year Term	Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% Buffer. If the Index Return for the year is… • -8%, the Performance Credit is zero. • -12%, the Performance Credit is -2%.	Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return up to any Cap set on the Term Start Date Assume the Cap for the 1-year Term is 8%. If the Index Return for the year is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 6%, the Performance Credit is 6%. • 12%, the Performance Credit is 8%. If instead the 1-year Term were uncapped, the Performance Credit is 12%.
Index Performance Strategy 3-year Term	Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% or 20% Buffer. Assume you select a 3-year Term Index Option with 10% Buffer. If the Index Return for the Term is… • -19%, the Performance Credit is -9%. • -24%, the Performance Credit is -14%. If instead you select a 3-year Term Index Option with 20% Buffer. If the Index Return for the Term is… • -19%, the Performance Credit is 0%. • -24%, the Performance Credit is -4%.	Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return multiplied by the Participation Rate, up to any Cap set on the Term Start Date Assume the Participation Rate is 100% and the Cap is 80%. If the Index Return for the Term is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 65%, the Performance Credit is 65%. • 90%, the Performance Credit is 80%. If instead the Participation Rate is 110% and the 3-year Term were uncapped, then if the Index Return for the Term is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 65%, the Performance Credit is 71.5%. • 90%, the Performance Credit is 99%.

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Crediting Method and Term Length	If Index Value is less than it was on the Term Start Date (i.e., Index Return is negative):	If Index Value is equal to or greater than it was on the Term Start Date (i.e., Index Return is zero or positive):
Index Performance Strategy 6-year Term	Performance Credit is equal to the negative Index Return in excess of the 10% Buffer. If the Index Return for the Term is… • -19%, the Performance Credit is -9%. • -24%, the Performance Credit is -14%.	Performance Credit is equal to the Index Return multiplied by the Participation Rate, up to any Cap set on the Term Start Date Assume the Participation Rate is 100% and the Cap is 95%. If the Index Return for the Term is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 65%, the Performance Credit is 65%. • 90%, the Performance Credit is 90%. If instead the Participation Rate is 110% and the 6-year Term were uncapped, then if the Index Return for the Term is… • 0%, the Performance Credit is zero. • 65%, the Performance Credit is 71.5%. • 90%, the Performance Credit is 99%.

Daily Adjustment

The Daily Adjustment is how we calculate Index Option Values on Business Days other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date. The AZL Government Money Market Fund is not subject to the Daily Adjustment.

The Daily Adjustment can affect the amounts available for withdrawal, Performance Locks, annuitization, payment of the death benefit, and the Contract Value used to determine the Charge Base and contract maintenance charge. The Daily Adjustment can be positive or negative. When the Daily Adjustment is positive, your Index Option Value has increased since the Term Start Date. When it is negative, your Index Option Value has decreased (excluding the effect of the deduction of Contract expenses or any partial withdrawal). The Daily Adjustment for the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger cannot be negative.

We calculate the Daily Adjustment for a given Business Day before we deduct any Contract fees or expenses or process any partial withdrawal on that Business Day, including Penalty-Free Withdrawals, and any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract. However, the Daily Adjustment calculation is not affected by any Contract fee or expense deduction, or partial withdrawal. The Daily Adjustment does not change the Contract fee or expense deducted, or the withdrawal amount; it only changes the Index Option Value from which we deduct the Contract fee or expense, or withdrawal.

The Daily Adjustment approximates the Index Option Value that will be available on the Term End Date. It is the estimated present value of the future Performance Credit that we will apply on the Term End Date. The Daily Adjustment takes into account:

(i)

any Index gains during the Term subject to the applicable Trigger Rate, Cap, and/or Participation Rate,

(ii)

either any Index losses greater than the 10% or 20% Buffer, or Index losses down to the -10% Floor (not applicable to the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger), and

(iii)

the number of days until the Term End Date.

The Daily Adjustment does this by using the hypothetical value of a Proxy Investment (Proxy Value) each Business Day, other than the Term Start Date or Term End Date, based on the formulas described in Appendix B. The Proxy Investmentprovides a current estimated present value of what the Performance Credit will be on the Term End Date taking into account the applicable Buffer, Floor, Trigger Rate, Cap, and/or Participation Rate. The Daily Adjustment is not the actual Index return on the day of the calculation, and the estimated present value Performance Credit is not guaranteed. Therefore, the Daily Adjustment could result in a loss beyond the protection of the Buffer or Floor. In extreme circumstances the Daily Adjustment could result in a loss beyond the protection of the 10% or 20% Buffer, or -10% Floor, but it cannot result in a total loss of -100%. Such losses will be greater if the amount withdrawn (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) is also subject to a withdrawal charge, or is a deduction of Contract fees and expenses.

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A withdrawal taken during the Term may not receive the full benefit of the Buffer or Floor because the Daily Adjustment takes into account what may potentially happen between the withdrawal date and the Term End Date. All other factors being equal, even if the current Index return during the Term is greater than the Cap or Index Precision Strategy Trigger Rate , the Daily Adjustment will usually be lower than the Cap or Index Precision Strategy Trigger Rate . For the Index Protection Strategy with Trigger, even if the current Index return during the Term is greater than or equal to zero, the Daily Adjustment will usually be lower than the Trigger Rate. This is because there is a possibility that the Index return could decrease before the Term End Date. Similarly, even though a negative Index return may be within the 10% or 20% Buffer for the Index Precision Strategy and Index Performance Strategy, you still may receive a negative Daily Adjustment because there is a possibility that the Index Return could decrease before the Term End Date. The Daily Adjustment for Index Options with a Term length of more than 1-year may be more negatively impacted by changes in the expected volatility of Index prices than 1-year Term Index Options due to the difference in Term length. Also, the risk of a negative Daily Adjustment is greater for Index Options with a Term length of more than 1-year than for 1-year Term Index Options due to the Term length. 3-year and 6-year Term Index Options with a Participation Rate above 100% may also have larger fluctuations in the Daily Adjustment than Index Options either without a Participation Rate, or with a Participation Rate equal to 100%. Finally, a negative Index return for the Index Guard Strategy may result in you receiving a Daily Adjustment lower than the -10% Floor, because the Daily Adjustment reflects the present value of the Floor and you will not receive the full benefit of the -10% Floor until the Term End Date. A negative Daily Adjustment may cause you to realize loss of principal and previous earnings.

The Daily Adjustment’s risks are discussed in more detail in Risk Factors – Risk of Negative Returns. The specific details of the Daily Adjustment formula are described in Appendix B and in Exhibit 99(a) of the Form S-1 Registration Statement filed with the SEC, of which this prospectus is a part. This information is incorporated by reference into this prospectus. You can obtain a copy of Exhibit 99(a) by calling (800) 624-0197, or visiting our website at allianzlife.com.

Performance Locks and Early Reallocations

We must receive a Performance Lock request in Good Order before the end of the current Business Day to lock an Index Option on that day. Otherwise the Lock Date will occur on the next Business Day that your request is in Good Order. We do not allow Performance Locks to occur on Term End Dates. For requests submitted in writing, we do not consider the request to be received until it arrives at our Service Center.

You (or your Financial Professional, if authorized) can request a Performance Lock based on targets you set only through your account on our website. You can set upper and/or lower targets for each Index Option each Term. Setting a target close to the current Index Option Value return (or close to the Daily Adjustment once Contract Value is reduced to zero) may cause a Performance Lock to occur very quickly. You can change or cancel targets at any time before we execute a Performance Lock. Each Index Option’s targets automatically expire on the earlier of the Lock Date, or the last Business Day before the Term End Date. By setting targets you are authorizing us to automatically execute a Performance Lock at the end of the Business Day on the Lock Date upon which the target is reached.

A Performance Lock can be executed once each Term for each Index Option. We will not execute a Performance Lock on Index Protection Strategy with Trigger Index Options if the Daily Adjustment is zero. A Performance Lock applies to the total Index Option Value in an Index Option, and not just a portion of that Index Option. We use the Daily Adjustment calculated at the end of the current Business Day on the Lock Date to determine your locked Index Option Value. This “locked” Index Option Value may be more or less than the “unlocked” Index Option Value that is available for your review on the Lock Date because the unlocked Index Option Value was determined at the end of the prior Business Day. After the Lock Date, the Index Option Value stays in the locked Index Option for the remainder of the Index Year unless you execute an Early Reallocation. Daily Adjustments do not apply to a locked Index Option for the remainder of the Index Year and the locked Index Option Value will not receive a Performance Credit. For example, assume you selected one Index Option and your Index Option Value available for review in your account today is $20,326. If before the end of the Business Day you request a Performance Lock, today is your Lock Date. If your Index Option Value at the end of the Business Day is $20,250, you will lock in this $20,250 and it will not change until the next Index Anniversary.  However, a locked Index Option Value can decrease if you take a partial withdrawal (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract) or when we deduct a Contract fee or expense. On the next Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date, all locked Index Options will be unlocked, we will transfer the locked Index Option Value according to your instructions, and Daily Adjustments will again apply for the new Term. If you do not provide us with transfer instructions, the Index Option Value will remain in the same Index Option with a new Term Start Date subject to the renewal Trigger Rate, Cap, and Participation Rate for the new Term.

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You can also transfer assets out of a locked Index Option by requesting an Early Reallocation. You can request an Early Reallocation only through your account on our website. We do not accept Early Reallocation requests within 14 calendar days before an Index Anniversary and you are limited to two Early Reallocation requests each Index Year. However, each request can involve multiple locked Index Options. You can execute a Performance Lock and Early Reallocation on the same Business Day. After your second Early Reallocation request in an Index Year, any locked Index Options will remain locked until the next Index Anniversary. These limitations mean you may not be able to take advantage of any increases to Early Reallocation rates, or any advantageous changes to Index values when they become available.

A Performance Lock can help eliminate doubt about future Index performance and possibly limit the impact of a negative Performance Credit you would otherwise receive on an Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy Index Option. Because we transfer assets out of a locked Index Option on the Index Anniversary that occurs on or immediately after the Lock Date, executing a Performance Lock can also allow you to transfer assets out of a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option before the Term End Date if you execute the lock on or before the second Index Anniversary of a 3-year Term, or on or before the fifth Index Anniversary of a 6-year Term. If the Index Anniversary occurs on a non-Business Day, the Performance Lock must be executed before the end of the prior Business Day in order to transfer assets out of a 3-year or 6-year Term Index Option before the Term End Date. Executing an Early Reallocation on a locked Index Option can also allow you to transfer assets out of an Index Option before the Term End Date. The disadvantage of executing a Performance Lock is that the relevant Index Value could increase by the Term End Date, and you will not participate in that increase. In addition, if you execute a Performance Lock on an Index Precision Strategy, Index Guard Strategy, or Index Performance Strategy Index Option, you may receive less than the full protection of the Buffer or Floor that you would have received if you waited for us to apply the Performance Credit on the Term End Date.

Early Reallocation Example. Assume your Index Anniversary occurs on January 1st, and by June 15th you have locked four Index Options. You could submit an Early Reallocation request on July 17th for one Index Option, and a second request on August 14th for two more Index Options. However, after August 14th we will not accept any additional Reallocation Request for the remainder of the Index Year, so your one remaining locked Index Option will stay locked until the next Index Anniversary. Although you are unable to execute an Early Reallocation for the remainder of the Index Year, you can continue to execute Performance Locks on any unlocked Index Options. 

We will not provide advice or notify you regarding whether you should execute a Performance Lock or Early

Reallocation or the optimal time for doing so. We will not warn you if you execute a Performance Lock or Early

Reallocation at a sub-optimal time. We are not responsible for any losses related to your decision whether or not to

execute a Performance Lock or Early Reallocation.

5. AZL Government Money Market Fund

Information regarding the AZL Government Money Market Fund, including its (i) investment objective, (ii) investment adviser and subadviser, (iii) current expenses, and (iv) performance is available in Appendix E – Variable Investment Option Under the Contract. The AZL Government Money Market Fund has issued a prospectus that contains more detailed information about the fund. You should read the prospectus for the fund carefully before investing. The fund’s prospectus and other information can be found online at allianzlife.com/variableoptions. You can also request this information at no cost by calling (800) 624-0197, by sending an email request to contact.us@allianzlife.com, or by contacting your Financial Professional. We send you the current copy of the AZL Government Money Market Fund's prospectus when we issue the Contract.

There are potential risks associated with the AZL Government Money Market Fund's investment strategies. Depending on market conditions, you can gain or lose value by investing in the AZL Government Money Market Fund. In the future, we may add, eliminate or substitute variable investment options to the extent permitted by the federal securities laws and, when required, the SEC.

Currently, the AZL Government Money Market Fund is not a publicly available mutual fund. It is available only as a variable investment option in variable annuity contracts or variable life insurance policies issued by life insurance companies or in some cases, through participation in certain qualified pension or retirement plans. A material conflict of interest may arise between insurance companies, owners of different types of contracts, and retirement plans or their participants. The AZL Government Money Market Fund's Board of Directors monitors for material conflicts, and determines what action, if any, should be taken to address any conflicts.

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The AZL Government Money Market Fund's name, investment objectives and policies may be similar to the names, investment objectives and policies of other portfolios managed by the same investment advisers. Although the names, objectives and policies may be similar, the AZL Government Money Market Fund's investment results may be higher or lower than these other portfolios’ results. The investment advisers cannot guarantee, and make no representation, that these similar portfolios' investment results will be comparable even though the AZL Government Money Market Fund has the same name, investment advisers, objectives, and policies.

The AZL Government Money Market Fund pays 12b-1 fees to the Contracts’ distributor, our affiliate, Allianz Life Financial Services, LLC, for distribution and/or administrative services. In addition, we may enter into certain arrangements under which we, or Allianz Life Financial Services, LLC, are compensated by the AZL Government Money Market Fund's advisers, distributors and/or affiliates for administrative services and benefits we provide to the AZL Government Money Market Fund. The compensation amount usually is based on the AZL Government Money Market Fund's aggregate assets purchased through contracts we issue or administer. Some advisers may pay us more or less than others. The maximum service fee we currently receive from any variable investment option in any variable annuity contract we offer is 0.35% annually of the average aggregate amount invested by us in the variable investment options.

We offer other variable annuity contracts that may invest in the AZL Government Money Market Fund. These contracts may have different charges and may offer different benefits more appropriate to your needs. For more information about these contracts, please contact our Service Center.

Allianz Investment Management LLC, the AZL Government Money Market Fund's investment adviser, is affiliated with us through common ownership.

Substitution and Limitation on Holdings

We may substitute another variable investment option for the AZL Government Money Market Fund for any reason in our sole discretion. To the extent required by the Investment Company Act of 1940 or other applicable law, we do not substitute any shares without SEC approval and providing you notice. A new or substitute variable investment option may have different fees and expenses. We may limit the amount of additional Purchase Payments held in the AZL Government Money Market Fund if marketing, tax or investment considerations warrant, or for any reason in our sole discretion. We may also close the AZL Government Money Market Fund. The fund companies that sell shares of the AZL Government Money Market Fund to us, pursuant to participation agreements, may end those agreements and discontinue offering us their shares.

Excessive Trading and Market Timing 

Currently the Contract does not offer any variable investment options to which you can allocate money. If we were to

offer variable investment options in the future they would be subject to the following provisions.

We discourage and do not accommodate frequent transfers. We may restrict or modify your right to make transfers to prevent any use that we consider to be part of a market timing program.

Frequent transfers, programmed transfers, transfers into and then out of a variable investment option in a short period of time, and transfers of large amounts at one time (collectively referred to as “potentially disruptive trading”) may have harmful effects for other Owners, Annuitants and Beneficiaries. These risks and harmful effects include the following.

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Dilution of the interests of long-term investors in a variable investment option, if market timers or others transfer into a variable investment option at prices that are below their true value, or transfer out at prices above their true value.

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An adverse effect on portfolio management, such as causing a variable investment option to maintain a higher level of cash or causing a variable investment option to liquidate investments prematurely.

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Increased brokerage and administrative expenses.

We attempt to protect our Owners and the variable investment options from potentially disruptive trading through our Excessive Trading and Market Timing policies and procedures. Under these policies and procedures, we may modify your transfer privileges for some or all of the variable investment options as follows:

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Limit transfer frequency (for example, prohibit more than one transfer a week, or more than two a month, etc.).

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Restrict the transfer method (for example, requiring all transfers be sent by first-class U.S. mail and rescinding electronic transfer privileges).

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Require a minimum time period between each transfer into or out of the same variable investment option. Our current Excessive Trading and Market Timing policy, which is subject to change without notice, prohibits “round trips” within 14 calendar days. We do not include transfers into and/or out of the AZL Government Money Market Fund when available in your Contract or any automatic transfers made under any of our programs or Contract features. Round trips are transfers into and back out of the same variable investment option, or transfers out of and back into the same variable investment option.

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Refuse transfer requests made on your behalf by an asset allocation and/or market timing service.

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Limit the dollar amount of any single Purchase Payment or transfer request to a variable investment option.

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Prohibit transfers into specific variable investment options.

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Impose other limitations or restrictions to the extent permitted by federal securities laws.

We also reserve the right to reject any specific Purchase Payment allocation or transfer request from any person if in the investment adviser’s, subadviser’s or our judgment, a variable investment option may be unable to invest effectively in accordance with its investment objectives and policies. This could occur, for example, where frequent or rapid trading causes the investment adviser to hold an excess of uninvested cash to meet redemption requests, or to sell investment positions to fund redemptions, thereby affecting variable investment option returns. Similarly, rapid or frequent trading may cause a variable investment option to incur excessive transaction fees, which also could affect performance.

We retain some discretion in determining what actions constitute potentially disruptive trading and in determining when and how to impose trading restrictions. Currently, we attempt to deter disruptive trading as follows. If a transfer(s) is/are identified as potentially disruptive trading, we may (but are not required to) send a warning letter. If the conduct continues and we determine it constitutes disruptive trading, we also impose transfer restrictions. Transfer restrictions may include refusing electronic transfers and requiring all transfers be sent by first-class U.S. mail. If the disruptive trading affects only a single variable investment option, we may prohibit transfers into or Purchase Payment allocations to that variable investment option. We do not enter into agreements permitting market timing and would not permit activities determined to be disruptive trading to continue. We also reserve the right to impose transfer restrictions if we determine, in our sole discretion, that transfers disadvantage other Owners. We notify you in writing if we impose transfer restrictions on you.

We adopted these policies and procedures as a preventative measure to protect all Owners from the potential effects of disruptive trading, while also abiding by your legitimate interest in diversifying your investment and making periodic asset re-allocations based on your personal situation or overall market conditions. We attempt to protect your interests in making legitimate transfers by providing reasonable and convenient transfer methods that do not harm other Owners.

We may make exceptions when imposing transfer restrictions if we determine a transfer is appropriate, although it may technically violate our policies and procedures discussed here. In determining if a transfer is appropriate, we may, but are not required to, take into consideration its relative size, whether it was purely a defensive transfer into the AZL Government Money Market Fund, and whether it involved an error or similar event. We may also reinstate electronic transfer privileges after we revoke them, but we do not reinstate these privileges if we believe they might be used for future disruptive trading.

We cannot guarantee the following.

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Our monitoring will be 100% successful in detecting all potentially disruptive trading activity.

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Revoking electronic transfer privileges will successfully deter all potentially disruptive trading.

In addition, some of the variable investment options are available to other insurance companies and we do not know if they adopted policies and procedures to detect and deter potentially disruptive trading, or what their policies and procedures might be. Because we may not be completely successful at detecting and preventing market timing activities, and other insurance companies that offer the variable investment options may not have adopted adequate market timing procedures, there is some risk that market timing activity may occur and negatively affect other Owners.

We may, without prior notice to any party, take whatever action we deem appropriate to comply with any state or federal regulatory requirement. In addition, purchase orders for a variable investment option’s shares are subject to acceptance by that variable investment option’s manager. We reserve the right to reject, without prior notice, any variable investment option transfer request or Purchase Payment if the purchase order is rejected by the investment manager. We have entered into agreements required under SEC Rule 22c-2 (Rule 22c-2 agreements) whereby, upon request by an underlying fund or its designee, we must provide information about you and your trading activities to the underlying fund or its designee. Under the terms of the Rule 22c-2 agreements, we are required to: (1) provide details concerning every purchase, redemption, transfer, or exchange of variable investment options during a specified period; and (2) restrict your trading

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activity if the party receiving the information so requests. Under certain Rule 22c-2 agreements, if we fail to comply with a request to restrict trading activity, the underlying fund or its designee may refuse to accept buy orders from us until we comply.

Variable investment options may add or change policies designed to restrict market timing activities. For example, variable investment options may impose restrictions on transfers between variable investment options in an affiliated group if the investment adviser to one or more of the variable investment options determines that the person requesting the transfer has engaged, or is engaging in, market timing or other abusive trading activities. In addition, a variable investment option may impose a short-term trading fee on purchases and sales within a specified period. You should review the variable investment options’ prospectuses regarding any applicable transfer restrictions and the imposition of any fee to discourage short-term trading. The imposition of these restrictions would occur as a result of variable investment option restrictions and actions taken by the variable investment options’ managers. 

This Contract is not designed for professional market timing organizations, or other persons using programmed, large, or

frequent transfers, and we may restrict excessive or inappropriate transfer activity.

The retention of some level of discretion by us may result in disparate treatment among persons engaging in potentially disruptive trading, and it is possible that some persons could experience adverse consequences if others are able to engage in potentially disruptive trading practices that have negative effects.

Voting Privileges

We legally own the AZL Government Money Market Fund shares. However, when the AZL Government Money Market Fund holds a shareholder vote that affects your investment, we ask you to give us voting instructions. We then vote all of our shares, including any we own on our behalf, in proportion to those instructions. Because most Owners do not give us instructions and we vote shares proportionally, a small number of Owners may determine a vote’s outcome. If we determine we no longer need to get your voting instructions, we will decide how to vote the shares. Only Owners have voting privileges. Annuitants, Beneficiaries, Payees and other persons have no voting privileges unless they are also Owners.

We determine your voting interest as follows:

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You can provide voting instructions based on the dollar value of the AZL Government Money Market Fund’s shares in your Contract’s subaccount. We calculate this value based on the number and value of accumulation units for your Contract on the record date. We count fractional units.

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You receive proxy materials and a voting instruction form.

6. Expenses

Contract fees and expenses reduce your investment return and are described here in detail. We set the Contract fees and expenses on the Issue Date and they cannot change.

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Optional Benefit Additional Rider Fee

Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit

If you have the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit, we deduct an additional 0.20% rider fee from your Contract Value. The rider fee is an annualized rate that we calculate and accrue on a daily basis as a percentage of the Charge Base and deduct quarterly during the Accumulation Phase while your benefit is in effect as follows. 

Issue Date	Non-Quarterly Contract Anniversaries	Quarterly Contract Anniversaries*
• The Charge Base is equal to your initial Purchase Payment. • We begin calculating and accruing the daily rider fee, on the day after the Issue Date.	• First we calculate and accrue the daily rider fee, using the Charge Base. If this is a non-Business Day we use the Charge Base from the end of the prior Business Day. • Then if this is a Business Day we increase/decrease the Charge Base as follows. – If we receive an additional Purchase Payment, we increase the Charge Base by the dollar amount we receive. – If you take a partial withdrawal (including any financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract), or we deduct Contract fees and expenses other than the withdrawal charge, we decrease the Charge Base by the percentage of Contract Value withdrawn (including any withdrawal charge). All withdrawals you take reduce the Charge Base, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals.	• First we process all daily transactions and determine your Contract Value. Daily transactions include any gains/losses due to AZL Government Money Market Fund performance or application of any Daily Adjustment (or Performance Credit if this is also the Term End Date), any additional Purchase Payment, any partial withdrawals you take (including financial adviser fees that you choose to have us pay from this Contract and any withdrawal charge), and deductions we make for other Contract fees and expenses (including deduction of the accrued daily rider fee for the prior quarter). All partial withdrawals you take reduce the Charge Base, even Penalty-Free Withdrawals. – We deduct the accrued rider fee for the prior quarter on a dollar for dollar basis from the Contract Value, and proportionately from each Index Option and the AZL Government Money Market Fund. • Then we set the Charge Base equal to this Contract Value and we calculate and accrue the next quarter’s daily rider fee using the newly set Charge Base. * Or the next Business Day if the Quarterly Contract Anniversary is a non-Business Day.
	Example: Contract Value is $125,000; Charge Base is $127,000; a $10,000 partial withdrawal (including any withdrawal charge) would decrease the Charge Base by $10,160. [($10,000 ÷ $125,000) x $127,000] Any increase/decrease to the Charge Base will increase/decrease the daily rider fee we calculate and accrue on the next day.
Examples of how we calculate the rider fee are included in Appendix C.

We no longer assess the 0.20% additional rider fee once we receive either the first Valid Claim from any one Beneficiary, or due proof of a Determining Life’s death if you and the Determining Life are different individuals and the Determining Life predeceases you. We deduct the final accrued additional rider fee before calculating the death benefit. If you take a full withdrawal or annuitize the Contract, we deduct the final accrued rider fee before processing the withdrawal or calculating Annuity Payments. The additional rider fee compensates us for the risks we assume under the Maximum Anniversary Value Death Benefit. 

• When calculating the Maximum Anniversary Value, we deduct all Contract fees and expenses on the Index

Anniversary (including the accrued rider fee if this is also a Quarterly Contract Anniversary) before we capture any

annual investment gains. However, we do not treat the deduction of the accrued rider fee as a withdrawal when

calculating the Maximum Anniversary Value (see section 10).

• If on a Quarterly Contract Anniversary (or the next Business Day if the Quarterly Contract Anniversary is a

non-Business Day) the Contract Value is less than the accrued rider fee, we deduct your total remaining Contract

Value to cover the accrued rider fee and reduce your Contract Value to zero.

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Contract Maintenance Charge (Administrative Expenses)

Your annual contract maintenance charge is $50. This charge is for Contract administration and maintenance expenses. We waive this charge as follows:

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During the Accumulation Phase, if the Contract Value is at least $100,000 on the Contract Anniversary.

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During the Annuity Phase if the Contract Value on the last Business Day before the Annuity Date is at least $100,000.

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When paying death benefits.

During the Accumulation Phase, we deduct the contract maintenance charge:

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on a dollar for dollar basis from the Contract Value on the Contract Anniversary (or the next Business Day if the Contract Anniversary is a non-Business Day), and

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we deduct it proportionately from each Index Option and the AZL Government Money Market Fund.

If you take a full withdrawal from your Contract (other than on a Contract Anniversary), we deduct the full contract maintenance charge. We do not treat the deduction of the contract maintenance charge as a withdrawal when computing your Guaranteed Death Benefit Value. During the Annuity Phase, we deduct the contract maintenance charge proportionately from each Annuity Payment (e.g., if you request semi-annual Annuity Payments we deduct 50% of the contract maintenance charge from each Annuity Payment).

Withdrawal Charge

You can take withdrawals during the Accumulation Phase. A withdrawal charge applies if any part of a withdrawal comes from a Purchase Payment that is still within the withdrawal charge period. We assess the withdrawal charge against the Withdrawal Charge Basis, which is equal to total Purchase Payments, less any Purchase Payments withdrawn (excluding any Penalty-Free Withdrawals), and less any applicable withdrawal charge. We do not reduce the Withdrawal Charge Basis for any amounts we deduct to pay other Contract fees and expenses.

We do not assess a withdrawal charge on Penalty-Free Withdrawals or amounts we deduct to pay Contract expenses, other than the withdrawal charge. However, any amounts used to pay a withdrawal charge are subject to a withdrawal charge. Amounts withdrawn to pay financial adviser fees are subject to a withdrawal charge if they exceed the free withdrawal privilege during the Accumulation Phase, and will reduce the Contract Value and Guaranteed Death Benefit Value (perhaps significantly). 

Calculating a Withdrawal Charge	Example
For purposes of calculating any withdrawal charge, we withdraw Purchase Payments on a “first-in-first-out” (FIFO) basis and we process withdrawal requests as follows.	You make an initial Purchase Payment of $55,000 and make another Purchase Payment in the first month of the second Contract Year of $45,000. In the third month of the third Contract Year, your Contract Value is $110,000 and you request a $70,000 withdrawal. We withdraw money and compute the withdrawal charge as follows.
1. First we withdraw from Purchase Payments that we have had for six or more complete years, which is your Contract’s withdrawal charge period. This withdrawal is not subject to a withdrawal charge and it reduces the Withdrawal Charge Basis dollar for dollar.	1. Purchase Payments beyond the withdrawal charge period. All payments are still within the withdrawal charge period, so this does not apply.
2. Amounts available as a Penalty-Free Withdrawal. This includes partial withdrawals you take during the Accumulation Phase under the free withdrawal privilege or waiver of withdrawal charge benefit, and RMD payments you take under our minimum distribution program. Penalty-Free Withdrawals are not subject to a withdrawal charge, and they do not reduce the Withdrawal Charge Basis.	2. Amounts available as a Penalty-Free Withdrawal. You did not take any other withdrawals this year, so the entire free withdrawal privilege (10% of your total Purchase Payments, or $10,000) is available to you without incurring a withdrawal charge.

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Calculating a Withdrawal Charge		Example
3. Next, on a FIFO basis, we withdraw from Purchase Payments within your Contract’s withdrawal charge period and assess a withdrawal charge. Withdrawing payments on a FIFO basis may help reduce the total withdrawal charge because the charge declines over time. We determine your total withdrawal charge by multiplying each payment by its applicable withdrawal charge percentage and then totaling the charges. These withdrawals reduce the Withdrawal Charge Basis. The withdrawal charge as a percentage of each Purchase Payment withdrawn is as follows.		3. Purchase Payments within the withdrawal charge period on a FIFO basis. The total amount we withdraw from the first Purchase Payment is $55,000, which is subject to a 7% withdrawal charge, and you receive $51,150. We determine this amount as follows: (amount withdrawn) x (1 – withdrawal charge) = the amount you receive, or: $55,000 x 0.93 = $51,150 Next we withdraw from the second Purchase Payment. So far, you received $61,150 ($10,000 under the free withdrawal privilege and $51,150 from the first Purchase Payment which is now reduced to zero), so we withdraw $8,850 from the second Purchase Payment to equal the $70,000 you requested. The second Purchase Payment is subject to an 8% withdrawal charge. We calculate the total amount withdrawn and its withdrawal charge as follows: (the amount you receive) ÷ (1 – withdrawal charge) = amount withdrawn, or: $8,850 ÷ 0.92 = $9,620.
Number of Complete Years Since Purchase Payment	Withdrawal Charge Amount
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 years or more	8.5% 8% 7%