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TRANSAMERICA MULTI-MANAGER ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES PORTFOLIO

Summary Prospectus

March 1, 2011


Class	CLASS A	CLASS C	CLASS I
& Ticker	IMUAX	IMUCX	TASIX

This summary prospectus is designed to provide shareholders with key fund information in a clear and concise format. Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus and other information about the fund, including the fund’s statement of additional information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at http://www.transamericafunds.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 866-414-6349 or by sending an e-mail request to orders@mysummaryprospectus.com, or from your financial professional. The fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, dated March 1, 2011, as supplemented from time to time, and the independent registered public accounting firm’s report and financial statements in the fund’s annual report to shareholders, dated October 31, 2010, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus.

Investment Objective: Seeks long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses: This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Transamerica Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the “Waivers and/or Reductions of Charges” section on page 128 of the fund’s prospectus and in the fund’s statement of additional information (SAI) under the heading “Purchase of Shares.”


Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
	Class of Shares
	A	C	I
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a % of offering price)	5.50%	None	None
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a percentage of purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is lower)	None	1.00%	None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Class of Shares
	A	C	I
Management fees	0.20%	0.20%	0.20%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees	0.35%	1.00%	None
Other expenses	0.25%	0.24%	0.30%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses (fees and expenses of underlying funds)	1.05%	1.05%	1.05%
Total annual fund operating expenses^a	1.85%	2.49%	1.55%

^aFund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets in the financial highlights table, which do not include acquired (i.e., underlying) funds’ fees and expenses.

Example: This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


If the shares are redeemed at the end of each period:
Share Class	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years
A	$728	$1,100	$1,496	$2,600
C	$352	$ 776	$1,326	$2,826
I	$158	$ 490	$ 845	$1,845
If the shares are not redeemed:
Share Class	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years
A	$728	$1,100	$1,496	$2,600
C	$252	$ 776	$1,326	$2,826
I	$158	$ 490	$ 845	$1,845

The Example does not reflect sales charges (loads) on reinvested dividends (and other distributions). If these sales charges (loads) were included, your costs would be higher.

Portfolio Turnover: The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the portfolio turnover rate was 35% of the average value of the fund's portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies: The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets in a combination of underlying Transamerica Funds (“underlying funds”).

· Under normal circumstances, the fund expects to invest primarily in underlying funds that use alternative investment strategies or invest in alternative asset classes, including but not limited to:

· Long-short and market-neutral strategies;

· Bear-market strategies;

· Tactical investment strategies (bond and/or equity);

· Foreign currency trading strategies;

· Real estate strategies;

· Managed futures strategies;

· Commodities and/or natural resources and/or precious metals; and

· Non-core investments (such as micro-cap stocks, emerging markets equities, TIPS and foreign bonds).

· Allocation of assets among the underlying funds is intended to achieve moderate capital appreciation with limited volatility and correlation with the mainstream equity and bond markets.

· The fund may also invest directly in U.S. government securities and/or short-term commercial paper.

Each underlying fund has its own investment objective, principal investment strategies and investment risks. The “Underlying Funds” section of the prospectus lists the underlying funds currently available for investment by the fund, provides a summary of their respective investment objectives and principal investment strategies, and identifies certain risks of the underlying funds.

It is not possible to predict the extent to which the fund will be invested in a particular underlying fund at any time. The fund may be a significant shareholder in certain underlying funds.

The portfolio construction manager, Morningstar Associates, LLC, may change the fund’s asset allocations and underlying funds at any time without notice to shareholders and without shareholder approval.

Under adverse or unstable market, economic or political conditions, the fund may take temporary defensive positions in cash and short-term debt securities without limit.

Principal Risks: Many factors affect the fund's performance. There is no assurance the fund will meet its investment objective. The value of your investment in the fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment, may fluctuate significantly from day to day and over time. You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. The following is a summary of certain risks (in alphabetical order) of investing in the fund. You may lose money if you invest in this fund.

· Asset Allocation – The Portfolio Construction Manager allocates the fund's assets among various underlying funds. These allocations may be unsuccessful in maximizing the fund's return and/or avoiding investment losses, and may cause the fund to underperform other funds with a similar strategy.

· Cash Management and Defensive Investing – Money market instruments or short-term debt securities held by the fund for cash management or defensive investing purposes can fluctuate in value. Like other fixed income securities, they are subject to risk, including market, interest rate and credit risk. If the fund holds cash uninvested, the fund will not earn income on the cash and the fund's yield will go down. If a significant amount of the fund's assets are used for cash management or defensive investing purposes, it will be more difficult for the fund to achieve its objective.

· Commodities – To the extent the fund invests in instruments whose performance is linked to the price of an underlying commodity or commodity index, the fund will be subject to the risks of investing in physical commodities, including regulatory, economic and political developments, weather events and natural disasters and market disruptions. The fund's investment exposure to the commodities markets may subject the fund to greater volatility than investments in more traditional securities, such as stocks and bonds.

· Currency – When the fund invests in securities denominated in foreign currencies, the fund may incur currency conversion costs and may be affected favorably or unfavorably by changes in the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar. Currency exchange rates can be volatile and are affected by, among other factors, the general economics of a country, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or control banks, the imposition of currency controls, and speculation.

· Derivatives – Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains when market prices, interest rates or the derivative instruments themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Derivatives may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. The fund's investments in derivative instruments may involve a small investment relative to the amount of investment exposure assumed and may result in losses exceeding the amounts invested in those instruments. Recent legislation calls for new regulation of the derivatives markets. The extent and impact of the regulation are not yet fully known and may not be for some time. New regulation of derivatives may make them more costly, may limit their availability, or may otherwise adversely affect their value or performance.

· Emerging Markets – Investing in the securities of issuers located in or principally doing business in emerging markets are subject to foreign securities risks. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less fully developed and are less stable than those of more advanced countries. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.

· Fixed-Income Securities – The market prices of fixed-income securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably due to general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, lack of liquidity in the bond markets or adverse investor sentiment. When market prices fall, the value of your investment will go down. A rise in rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities.

If interest rates rise, repayments of fixed-income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated by the market. This may drive the prices of these securities down because their interest rates are lower than the current interest rate and they remain outstanding longer. This is sometimes referred to as extension risk.

Many issuers have a right to prepay their securities. If interest rates fall, an issuer may exercise this right. If this happens, the fund will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on the prepaid security. This is sometimes referred to as prepayment or call risk.

· Foreign Securities – Foreign securities are subject to a number of additional risks, including nationalization or expropriation of assets, imposition of currency controls or restrictions, confiscatory taxation, political or financial instability and other adverse economic or political developments. Lack of information and less market regulation also may affect the value of these securities.

· High-Yield Debt Securities – High-yield debt securities, or junk bonds, are securities that are rated below “investment grade” (that is, securities rated below Baa/BBB) or, if unrated, are considered by the sub-adviser to be of equivalent quality. Changes in interest rates, the market’s perception of the issuers and the creditworthiness of the issuers may significantly affect the value of these bonds. Junk bonds have a higher risk of default, tend to be less liquid and may be more difficult to value.

· Increase in Expenses – Your actual costs of investing in the fund may be higher than the expenses shown in “Annual Fund Operating Expenses” for a variety of reasons. For example, expense ratios may be higher than those shown if average net assets decrease. Net assets are more likely to decrease and fund expense ratios are more likely to increase when markets are volatile.

· Market – The market prices of the fund's securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates or currency rates, lack of liquidity in the markets or adverse investor sentiment. Market prices of securities also may go down due to events or conditions that affect particular sectors or issuers. When market prices fall, the value of your investment will go down. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on any individual security. The recent financial crisis has caused a significant decline in the value and liquidity of many securities. In response to the financial crisis, the U.S. and other governments and the Federal Reserve and certain foreign central banks have taken steps to support financial markets. The withdrawal of this support could negatively affect the value and liquidity of certain securities. In addition, legislation recently enacted in the U.S. calls for changes in many aspects of financial regulation. The impact of the legislation on the markets, and the practical implications for market participants, may not be fully known for some time.

· Natural Resource-Related Securities – Because the fund concentrates its investments in natural resource related securities, the fund is subject to the risks associated with natural resource investments in addition to the general risk of the stock market. This means the fund is more vulnerable to the price movements of natural resources and factors that particularly affect the oil, gas, mining, energy, chemicals, paper, steel or agriculture sectors than a more broadly diversified fund. Because the fund invests primarily in companies with natural resource assets, there is the risk that the fund will perform poorly during a downturn in natural resource prices.

· Precious Metals-Related Securities – Prices of precious metals and of precious metals-related securities historically have been very volatile. The high volatility of precious metals prices may adversely affect the financial condition of companies involved with precious metals. The production and sale of precious metals by governments or central banks or other larger holders can be affected by various economic, financial social and political factors, which may be unpredictable and may have a significant impact on the prices of precious metals. Other factors that may affect the prices of precious metals and securities related to them include changes in inflation, the outlook for inflation and changes in industrial and commercial demand for precious metals.

· Real Estate Securities – Investments in the real estate industry are subject to risks associated with direct investment in real estate. These risks include declines in the value of real estate, adverse general and local economic conditions, increased competition, overbuilding and changes in operating expenses, property taxes or interest rates. REITs are one type of real estate security. A REIT’s performance depends on the types and locations of the properties it owns and how well it manages those properties or loan financings. REITs are subject to a highly technical tax structure, and the failure to qualify as a REIT could result in corporate-level taxation, significantly reducing the return on an investment to the fund.

· Smaller Companies – Small companies may be more at risk than larger companies because, among other things, they may have limited product lines, operating history, market or financial resources, or because they may depend on limited management groups.

· Stocks – Stocks may be volatile – their prices may go up and down dramatically over the shorter term. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries, the securities market as a whole or the over-all economy.

· Underlying Funds – Because the fund invests its assets in various underlying funds, its ability to achieve its investment objective depends largely on the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests. Each of the underlying funds in which the fund may invest has its own investment risks, and those risks can affect the value of the underlying funds' shares and therefore the value of the fund's investments. There can be no assurance that the investment objective of any underlying fund will be achieved. To the extent that the fund invests more of its assets in one underlying fund than in another, the fund will have greater exposure to the risks of that underlying fund. In addition, the fund will bear a pro rata portion of the operating expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests. The “Underlying Funds” section of the fund's prospectus identifies certain risks of each underlying fund.

Performance: The bar chart and the table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing you how the fund’s performance has varied from year to year, and how the fund’s average annual total returns for different periods compare to the returns of a broad measure of market performance. The bar chart does not reflect the impact of sales charges, which, if reflected, would lower the returns. The table, which shows average annual total returns for each class of shares of the fund, includes deduction of applicable sales charges. Absent any limitation of the fund's expenses, total returns would be lower. As with all mutual funds, past performance (before and after taxes) is not a prediction of future results. Updated performance information is available on our website at www.transamericafunds.com or by calling 1-888-233-4339.

Annual Total Returns (calendar years ended December 31) – Class A


	Quarter Ended	Return
Best Quarter:	6/30/2009	12.16%
Worst Quarter:	12/31/2008	-10.35%

Average Annual Total Returns (periods ended December 31, 2010)¹


	1 Year	10 Years or Inception^*
Class A (commenced operations on December 28, 2006)
Return before taxes	0.56%	0.65%
Return after taxes on distributions²	0.35%	-0.05%
Return after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares²	0.39%	0.18%
Class C (Return before taxes only) (commenced operations on December 28, 2006)	4.69%	1.42%
Class I (Return before taxes only) (commenced operations on November 30, 2009)	6.93%	7.47%
Bank of America Merrill Lynch 3-Month Treasury Bill + 3% Wrap Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	3.17%	4.93%

¹ Actual returns may depend on the investor’s individual tax situation. After-tax returns may not be relevant if the investment is made through a tax-exempt or tax-deferred account, such as a 401(k) plan. After-tax returns are presented for only one class and returns for other classes will vary.

²The after-tax returns are calculated using the historic highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.

^*Fund returns are for past 10 years or since inception, whichever is less. Index returns are for 10 years or since inception of oldest share class, whichever is less.

Management:

Investment Adviser: Portfolio Construction Manager:

Transamerica Asset Management, Inc. Morningstar Associates, LLC

Portfolio Construction Team:

Jon Hale, CFA, Co-Portfolio Manager since 2006

Dan McNeela, CFA, Co-Portfolio Manager since 2010

Hal Ratner, Co-Portfolio Manager since 2010

Michael Stout, CFA, Co-Portfolio Manager since 2006

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares: You may purchase, exchange or redeem shares of the fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for business, online or through our website at www.transamericafunds.com, by mail to Transamerica Fund Services, Inc., P.O. Box 219945, Kansas City, MO 64121-9945, by telephone at 1-888-233-4339, or overnight mail to Transamerica Fund Services, Inc., 330 W. 9th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105. Shares may also be purchased through a financial intermediary. The minimum initial purchase for Class A and C shares is $1,000; the minimum subsequent investment is $50. The minimum initial purchase for payroll deduction and automatic investment plan is $500; the minimum subsequent investment is $50 per monthly fund account investment. The minimum investment for Class I shares is $1,000,000.

Tax Information: Fund distributions may be taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged investment plan.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries: If you purchase the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the fund and/or its affiliates may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

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