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Rule 497(e)

File Nos. 002-89550

811-03972

 

FutureFunds Series Account of

Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company

 

Supplement dated October 16, 2007 to

Prospectus dated May 1, 2007

 

Effective immediately, the section entitled “Market Timing & Excessive Trading” on pages 27-29 of the Prospectus is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following:

 

Market Timing & Excessive Trading

 

The Group Contracts are intended for long-term investment and not for the purpose of market timing or excessive trading activity. Market timing activity may dilute the interests of Participants in the underlying Eligible Funds. Market timing generally involves frequent or unusually large Transfers that are intended to take advantage of short-term fluctuations in the value of an Eligible Fund's portfolio securities and the reflection of that change in the Eligible Fund's share price. In addition, frequent or unusually large Transfers may harm performance by increasing Eligible Fund expenses and disrupting Eligible Fund management strategies. For example, excessive trading may result in forced liquidations of portfolio securities or cause the Eligible Fund to keep a relatively higher cash position, resulting in increased brokerage costs and lost investment opportunities.

 

We maintain procedures designed to prevent or minimize market timing and excessive trading (collectively, “prohibited trading”) by Participants. As part of those procedures, certain of the Eligible Funds have instructed us to perform standardized trade monitoring, while other Eligible Funds perform their own monitoring and request reports of the Participant's trading activity if prohibited trading is suspected. If a Participant’s trading activity is determined to constitute prohibited trading, as defined by the applicable Eligible Fund, GWL&A will notify the Participant that a trading restriction will be implemented if the Participant does not cease the prohibited trading. Some Eligible Funds may require that trading restrictions be implemented immediately without warning, in which case we will notify the Participant and the plan of the restriction imposed by the Eligible Fund(s), as applicable.

 

If an Eligible Fund determines, or we determine based on the applicable Eligible Fund’s definition of prohibited trading, that the Participant continues to engage in prohibited trading, we will restrict the Participant from making Transfers into the identified Eligible Fund(s) for the period of time specified by the Eligible Fund(s). Restricted Participants will be permitted to make Transfers out of the identified Eligible Fund(s) to other available Eligible Fund(s). When the Eligible Fund’s restriction period has been met, the Participant will automatically be allowed to resume Transfers into the identified Eligible Fund(s).

 

Additionally, if prohibited trading persists, the Eligible Fund may, pursuant to its prospectus and policies and procedures, reject all trades initiated by the plan, including those trades of individuals who are not engaging in prohibited trading. Inherently subjective judgments will be involved if an Eligible Fund decides to reject all trades initiated by a plan. The discretionary nature of our procedures creates a risk that we may treat some plans or some Participants differently than others.

 

Please note that the Series Account's market timing procedures are such that, for Eligible Funds that perform their own monitoring, the Series Account does not impose trading restrictions unless or until an Eligible Fund first detects and notifies us of prohibited trading activity. Accordingly, we cannot prevent all prohibited trading activity before it occurs, as it may not be possible to identify it unless and until a trading pattern is established. To the extent such Eligible Funds do not detect and notify us of prohibited trading or the trading restrictions we impose fail to curtail it, it is possible that a market timer may be able to make prohibited trading transactions with the result that the management of the Eligible Funds may be disrupted and the Participants may suffer detrimental effects such as increased costs, reduced performance, and dilution of their interests in the affected Eligible Funds.

 

We endeavor to ensure that our procedures are uniformly and consistently applied to all Participants, and we do not exempt any persons from these procedures. A plan sponsor, however, may elect to implement plan level restrictions to prevent or minimize prohibited trading by Participants. To the extent that such procedures are effective, we may not receive requests for information concerning trading activity from the Eligible Funds or requests to implement the trading restrictions above. In addition, we do not enter into agreements with Participants whereby we permit prohibited trading. Subject to applicable state law and the terms of each Group Contract, we reserve the right without prior notice to modify, restrict, suspend or eliminate the Transfer privileges (including telephone Transfers) at any time, to require that all Transfer Requests be made by you and not by your designee, and to require that each Transfer Request be made by a separate communication to us. We also reserve the right to require that each Transfer Request be submitted in writing and be signed by you.

 

The Eligible Funds may have adopted their own policies and procedures with respect to frequent purchases and redemptions of their respective shares. The prospectuses for the Eligible Funds should describe any policies and procedures relating to restricting prohibited trading. The frequent trading policies and procedures of an Eligible Fund may be different, and more or less restrictive, than the frequent trading policies and procedures of other Eligible Funds and the policies and procedures we have adopted to discourage prohibited trading. For example, an Eligible Fund may impose a redemption fee. Participants should also be aware that we are legally obligated to provide (at the Eligible Funds’ request) information about each amount you cause to be deposited into an Eligible Fund (including by way of premium payments and Transfers under your Contract) or removed from the Eligible Fund (including by way of withdrawals and Transfers under your Contract). If an Eligible Fund identifies you as having violated the Eligible Fund’s frequent trading policies and procedures, we are obligated, if the Eligible Fund requests, to restrict or prohibit any further deposits or exchanges by you in respect to that Eligible Fund. Under rules recently adopted by the SEC we are required to: (1) enter into a written agreement with each Eligible Fund or its principal underwriter that will obligate us to provide to the Eligible Fund promptly upon request certain information about the trading activity of individual Participants, and (2) execute instructions from the Eligible Fund to restrict or prohibit further purchases or Transfers by specific Participants who violate the frequent trading policies established by the Eligible Fund. Accordingly, if you do not comply with any Eligible Fund’s frequent trading policies and procedures, you may be prohibited from directing any additional amounts into that Eligible Fund or directing any Transfers or other exchanges involving that Eligible Fund. You should review and comply with each Eligible Fund’s frequent trading policies and procedures, which are disclosed in the Eligible Funds’ current prospectuses.

 

We may revise our market timing and excessive trading policy and related procedures at our sole discretion, at any time and without prior notice, as we deem necessary or appropriate to comply with state or federal regulatory requirements or to impose additional or alternative restrictions on Participants engaging in prohibited trading. In addition, our orders to purchase shares of the Eligible Funds are generally subject to acceptance by the Eligible Fund, and in some cases an Eligible Fund may reject or reverse our purchase order. Therefore, we reserve the right to reject any Participant's Transfer Request if our order to purchase shares of the Eligible Fund is not accepted by, or is reversed by, an applicable Eligible Fund.

 

You should note that other insurance companies and retirement plans may also invest in the Eligible Funds and that those companies or plans may or may not have their own policies and procedures on frequent Transfers. You should also know that the purchase and redemption orders received by the Eligible Funds generally are "omnibus" orders from intermediaries such as retirement plans or separate accounts funding variable insurance contracts. Omnibus orders reflect the aggregation and netting of multiple orders from individual retirement plan participants and/or individual owners of variable insurance contracts. The nature of such orders may limit the Eligible Funds' ability to apply their respective frequent trading policies and procedures. As a result, there is a risk that the Eligible Funds may not be able to detect potential prohibited trading activities in the omnibus orders they receive. We cannot guarantee that the Eligible Funds will not be harmed by Transfer activity relating to the retirement plans and/or other insurance companies that invest in the Eligible Funds. If the policies and procedures of other insurance companies or retirement plans fail to successfully discourage frequent Transfer activity, it may affect the value of your investments in the Eligible Funds. In addition, if an Eligible Fund believes that an omnibus order we submit may reflect one or more Transfer Requests from a Participant engaged in frequent Transfer activity, the Eligible Fund may reject the entire omnibus order and thereby interfere with our ability to satisfy your request even if you have not

 

made frequent Transfers. For Transfers into more than one investment option, we may reject or reverse the entire Transfer Request if any part of it is not accepted by or is reversed by an Eligible Fund.

 

This Supplement must be accompanied by or read in conjunction with the current Prospectus, dated May 1, 2007, and should be retained for future reference.