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Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio
Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio
Investment Objective
The investment objective of Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio (the "Portfolio") is to seek long-term growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. If you own a variable annuity contract or variable life insurance contract, you will have additional expenses including mortality and expense risk charges. Please refer to the prospectus for your variable contract for additional information about charges for those contracts.
SHAREHOLDER FEES
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio
Class A
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed On Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the net asset value at time of purchase or redemption, whichever is lower)
ANNUAL PORTFOLIO OPERATING EXPENSES
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of
the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio
Class A
Management Fees 0.65%
Other Expenses 0.16%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses 0.81%
EXAMPLE
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Portfolio is an investment option for variable contracts, and the example does not include charges imposed by variable contracts. If variable contract charges were imposed, your expenses would be higher than those shown. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual cost may be higher or lower, based on the foregoing assumptions, your cost would be:
Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio | Class A | USD ($) 83 259 450 1,002
Portfolio Turnover
The Portfolio 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 Portfolio shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 51% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Strategies
The Portfolio’s principal strategy for achieving its objective is normally to invest the Portfolio’s assets primarily in common stocks.

FIAM LLC (“FIAM”), the Portfolio’s subadviser, is not constrained by any particular investment style. At any given time, FIAM may tend to buy “growth” stocks or “value” stocks, or a combination of both types.

In buying and selling securities for the Portfolio, FIAM uses a disciplined approach that involves computer-aided, quantitative analysis supported by fundamental analysis. FIAM’s computer model systematically reviews thousands of stocks, using data such as historical earnings, dividend yield, earnings per share, and other quantitative factors. Then, the issuers of potential investments are analyzed further using fundamental factors such as growth potential, earnings estimates, and financial condition.

FIAM may use various techniques, such as buying and selling futures contracts and exchange-traded funds, to increase or decrease the Portfolio’s exposure to changing security prices or other factors that affect security values. If FIAM’s strategies do not work as intended, the Portfolio may not achieve its objective.
Principal Risks
The Portfolio is subject to the following principal investment risks. Shares of the Portfolio will rise and fall in value and there is a risk that you could lose money by investing in the Portfolio. The Portfolio cannot be certain that it will achieve its investment objective.

ETF Risk. An ETF is subject to the risks of the underlying investments that it holds. In addition, for index-based ETFs, the performance of an ETF may diverge from the performance of such index (commonly known as tracking error). ETFs are subject to fees and expenses (like management fees and operating expenses) that do not apply to an index, and the Portfolio will indirectly bear its proportionate share of any such fees and expenses paid by the ETFs in which it invests.

Futures Contract Risk. The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem with the value of the underlying instrument. The price of futures can be highly volatile; using them could lower total return, and the potential loss from futures can exceed the Portfolio’s initial investment in such contracts. In addition, the value of the futures contract may not accurately track the value of the underlying instrument.

Growth Investing Risk. Growth style investing includes the risk of investing in securities whose prices historically have been more volatile than other securities, especially over the short term. Growth stock prices reflect projections of future earnings or revenues and, if a company’s earnings or revenues fall short of expectations, its stock price may fall dramatically.

Investment Adviser Risk. The Portfolio is actively managed and the success of its investment strategy depends significantly on the skills of the Adviser or subadviser in assessing the potential of the investments in which the Portfolio invests. This assessment of investments may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance, even in rising markets.

Issuer Risk. Issuer risk is the possibility that factors specific to a company to which the Portfolio is exposed will affect the market prices of the company’s securities and therefore the value of the Portfolio. Common stock of a company is subordinate to other securities issued by the company. If a company becomes insolvent, interests of investors owning common stock will be subordinated to the interests of other investors in, and general creditors of, the company.

Large Cap Risk. Large-sized companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges such as changes in technology. They may also not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.

Liquidity Risk. Liquidity is the ability to sell a security relatively quickly for a price that most closely reflects the actual value of the security. Certain securities (i.e., small-cap stocks) often have a less liquid resale market. As a result, the Adviser or subadviser may have difficulty selling or disposing of securities quickly in certain markets or only be able to sell the holdings at prices substantially less than what the Adviser or subadviser believes they are worth.

Market Risk. Over time, securities markets generally tend to move in cycles with periods when security prices rise and periods when security prices decline. The value of the Portfolio’s investments may move with these cycles and, in some instances, increase or decrease more than the applicable market(s) as measured by the Portfolio’s benchmark index(es). The securities markets may also decline because of factors that affect a particular industry.

Small and Mid Cap Risk. Smaller, less seasoned companies often have greater price volatility, lower trading volume, and less liquidity than larger, more established companies. These companies tend to have small revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, small shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and less competitive strength than larger companies. Such companies seldom pay significant dividends that could cushion returns in a falling market.

Value Investing Risk. Value style investing includes the risk that stocks of undervalued companies may not rise as quickly as anticipated if the market doesn’t recognize their intrinsic value or if value stocks are out of favor.

Volatility Risk. Volatility risk is the risk that certain types of securities shift in and out of favor depending on market and economic conditions as well as investor sentiment.
Performance
The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Portfolio’s average annual returns for one-, five-, and ten-year periods compared to a broad-based securities market index. The index is the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which combines the S&P 500 Index, the S&P MidCap 400 Index, and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index to cover approximately 90% of the U.S. market capitalization. Call 800-847-4836 or visit Thrivent.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.

The bar chart and table include the effects of Portfolio expenses, but not charges or deductions against your variable contract, and assume that you sold your investment at the end of the period. Because shares of the Portfolio are offered through variable life insurance and variable annuity contracts, you should carefully review the variable contract prospectus for information on applicable charges and expenses. If the charges and deductions against your variable contract were included, returns would be lower than those shown.

How a Portfolio has performed in the past is not necessarily an indication of how it will perform in the future. Performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance over time.
YEAR-BY-YEAR TOTAL RETURN
Annual Return (%)
Bar Chart
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS
(PERIODS ENDING DECEMBER 29, 2017)
Average Annual Total Returns - Thrivent Partner All Cap Portfolio
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Class A 20.24% 14.17% 6.10%
S&P Composite 1500 Index (reflects no duduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 21.13% 15.74% 8.69%