| Summary Prospectus May 1, 2023 Class I and P Shares Technology Portfolio |
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Investment Goal
This Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Examples below. The table and Examples below also do not reflect expenses and charges that are imposed under your variable annuity contract or variable life insurance policy. For information on these expenses and charges, please refer to the applicable contract or policy prospectus. If these fees and expenses were included, the fees and expenses shown would be higher.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
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Management Fee | 0.90% |
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Service Fee | 0.20% |
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Other Expenses | 0.04% |
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| 0.04% | |
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses | 1.14% |
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| 0.94% | |
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Examples
The Examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other Funds of the Trust or other mutual funds. The Examples assume that you invest $10,000 for the time periods indicated, that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s annual operating expenses remain as stated in the previous table for the time periods shown. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, the Examples show what your costs would be based on these assumptions.
These Examples do not reflect fees and expenses of any variable annuity contract or variable life insurance policy. If these were included, the expenses (in dollars) shown would be higher. Keep in mind that this is only an estimate; actual expenses and performance may vary.
Your expenses (in dollars) if you buy, sell/redeem or hold all of your shares at the end of each period
| 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |||
Class I | $116 | $362 | $628 | $1,386 | |||
Class P | $96 | $300 | $520 | $1,155 |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its holdings). During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, the portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of the Fund. A higher portfolio turnover rate reflects a greater number of securities being bought or sold, which may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Examples, affect the Fund’s performance.
Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal circumstances, this Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of technology companies and technology-related companies. Such companies are those that the sub-adviser believes are principally engaged in the development, advancement, use, commercial application or sale of technology-related products, processes or services. The sub-adviser generally considers an issuer to be principally engaged in the development, advancement, use, commercial application or sale of technology-related products, processes or services if at least 50% of the issuer’s assets, income, sales, or profits are committed to, or derived from, such activities, or a third party has given the issuer an industry or sector classification consistent with such activities. The Fund normally will invest more than 25% of its assets in securities of companies in technology and related industries.
Technology and technology-related companies include companies focusing on software, hardware, computer systems, networking and communications, semiconductors, consumer electronics, and technology services, including electronic payments and the internet.
The Fund may invest in companies of all sizes and may invest without limitation in foreign securities, including securities of issuers within emerging markets. The Fund may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in securities of issuers in a single
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country, a small number of countries, or a particular geographic region.
In selecting investments for the Fund, the sub-adviser is not constrained to any particular investment style. The sub-adviser may invest the Fund’s assets in the stocks of companies it believes to have above average earnings growth potential compared to other companies (growth companies) or the stocks of companies it believes are undervalued compared to their perceived worth (value companies). However, companies that benefit from technological advancements and improvements often are growth companies.
The sub-adviser uses an active bottom-up investment approach to buying and selling investments for the Fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual issuers. Quantitative screening tools that systematically evaluate an issuer's valuation, price and earnings momentum, earnings quality, and other factors, may also be considered. The sub-adviser may sell a holding for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into opportunities that the sub-adviser believes to be more promising, among others.
The Fund is classified as non-diversified, which means it may invest in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.
Principal Risks
As with any mutual fund, the value of the Fund’s investments, and therefore the value of your shares, may go up or down and you could lose money. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment goal. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Italicized terms refer to separate Principal Risks that are each defined in the Principal Risks section below.
While the Fund may be subject to various risk exposures at any given time depending on market conditions and other factors impacting holdings and investment strategies, the Fund under normal circumstances is subject to the following principal risks:
· Equity Securities Risk: Equity securities tend to go up and down in value, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably.
· Technology Companies Risk: Technology companies face a number of risks, including operating in rapidly changing fields, abrupt or erratic market movements, limited product lines, markets or financial resources, management that is dependent on a limited number of people, short product cycles, aggressive pricing of products and services, new market entrants and rapid obsolescence of products and services due to technological innovations or changing consumer preferences. By investing in these companies, a Fund is exposed to these risks. In addition, many U.S. technology companies have diverse operations, with products or services in foreign markets, exposing them to foreign markets risk.
· Industry Concentration Risk: Concentrating investments in a particular industry or group of industries makes the Fund more susceptible to adverse economic, business, regulatory or other developments affecting that industry or related industries. Because the Fund concentrates in securities of companies in technology and related industries, the Fund may perform poorly during a downturn in those industries.
· Large-Capitalization Companies Risk: Although large-capitalization companies tend to have more stable prices than smaller, less established companies, they are still subject to equity securities risk. In addition, large-capitalization equity security prices may not rise as much as prices of equity securities of small-capitalization companies.
· Active Management Risk: A portfolio manager’s judgments about the potential value or price appreciation of an investment may prove to be incorrect or fail to have the intended results, which could negatively impact the Fund’s performance.
· Currency Risk: A decline in the value of a foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar reduces the value in U.S. dollars of the Fund’s investments denominated in or with exposure to that foreign currency.
· Emerging Markets Risk: Investments in or exposure to investments in emerging market countries may be riskier than investments in or exposure to investments in U.S. and other developed markets for many reasons, including smaller market capitalizations, greater price volatility, less liquidity, lower credit quality, a higher degree of political and economic instability, the impact of economic sanctions, less governmental regulation and supervision of the financial industry and markets, and less stringent financial reporting and accounting standards and controls.
· Foreign Markets Risk: Exposure to a foreign market through investments in foreign issuers (companies or other entities) can involve additional risks relating to market, economic, political, regulatory, geopolitical, or other conditions of that market. These factors can make investments in foreign issuers more volatile and less liquid than U.S. investments. Less stringent regulatory, accounting, and disclosure requirements and general supervision for issuers and markets are more common in certain foreign countries. Enforcing legal rights can be difficult, costly, and slow in certain foreign countries, and can be particularly difficult against foreign governments. In addition, foreign markets can react differently to these conditions than the U.S. market. Markets and economies throughout the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, and conditions or events in one market, country or region may adversely impact investments or issuers in, or foreign exchange rates with, another market, country or region.
· Geographic Focus Risk: If the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in a single country, limited number of countries, or particular geographic region, then the risk increases that economic, political, social, or other conditions in those countries or that region will have a significant impact on the Fund’s performance. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be more volatile than the performance of more geographically diversified funds.
· Growth Companies Risk: Growth companies are those that a portfolio manager believes have the potential for above average or rapid growth but may be subject to greater price volatility than investments in “undervalued” companies.
· Liquidity Risk: Certain holdings may be difficult to purchase, sell and value, particularly during adverse market conditions, because there is a limited market for the investment or there are restrictions on resale. The Fund may not be able to sell a holding quickly at the price it has valued the holding, may be unable to take advantage of market opportunities or may be forced to sell other more desirable, more liquid securities or sell less liquid or
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illiquid securities at a loss if needed to raise cash to conduct operations, including to meet redemption requests.
· Mid-Capitalization Companies Risk: Mid-capitalization companies may be subject to greater price volatility and may be more vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes than larger, more established companies.
· Non-Diversification Risk: A fund that is classified as non-diversified may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a single issuer or a fewer number of issuers than a fund that is classified as diversified. This increases the risk that the Fund will have greater price swings over shorter periods of time because the poor performance of a single investment or a fewer number of investments will have a greater impact on the Fund than a diversified fund with more investments. Being classified as non-diversified does not prevent the Fund from being managed as though it were a diversified fund.
· Small-Capitalization Companies Risk: Small-capitalization companies may be more susceptible to liquidity risk and price volatility and be more vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes than larger, more established companies.
· Value Companies Risk: Value companies are those that a portfolio manager believes are undervalued and trading for less than their intrinsic values. There is a risk that the determination that a stock is undervalued is not correct or is not recognized in the market.
· Underlying Fund Risk: Because the Fund is available for investment by one or more “fund of funds” of the Trust and thus may have a significant percentage of its outstanding shares held by such fund of funds, a change in asset allocation by the fund of funds could result in large redemptions out of the Fund, causing the sale of securities in a short timeframe and potential increases in expenses to the Fund and its remaining shareholders, both of which could negatively impact performance.
Performance
The bar chart and Average Annual Total Returns table below provide some indication of the risk of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the performance of the Fund from year to year and showing how the Fund’s returns compare to a broad-based market index. The table below compares Fund performance to a broad-based securities market benchmark index and to a technology sector index which is comprised of securities that are more representative of the Fund's investment strategies than those in the broad-based benchmark index. The bar chart shows the performance of the Fund’s Class I shares. Returns do not reflect fees and expenses of any variable annuity contract or variable life insurance policy; if these fees and expenses were included, the returns shown would be lower. Past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Performance reflects fee waivers or expense limitations, if any, that were in effect during the periods presented.
MFS Investment Management began managing the Fund on November 1, 2016, and some investment policies changed at that time. Other firms managed the Fund before that date.
Best
and worst quarterly performance reflected within the bar chart: Q2 2020: 30.89%; Q2
2022: (21.65%)
Average
Annual Total Returns | 1 year | 5 years | 10
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Class I (incepted January 2, 2001) | (36.06%) | 8.26% | 9.66% |
Class P (incepted May 2, 2011) | (35.93%) | 8.49% | 9.89% |
S&P 500 Index | (18.11%) | 9.42% | 12.56% |
S&P North American Technology | (35.36%) | 11.73% | 16.60% |
Management
Investment Adviser – Pacific Life Fund Advisors LLC
Sub-Adviser – MFS Investment Management. The persons jointly and primarily responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund are:
Portfolio Manager and
Primary Title with | Experience |
Matthew
Sabel, Investment Officer and | Since 2016 |
Reinier Dobbelmann, Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager | Since 2022 |
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
The Fund is offered at net asset value (“NAV”) and is available as an underlying investment option for variable life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts (“variable products”) issued by Pacific Life and PL&A. You do not buy, sell or exchange shares of the Fund – you choose investment options through your variable product. The life insurance companies then invest in the Fund if you choose it as an investment option and redeem shares of the Fund if you choose to decrease that investment option. Any minimum initial or subsequent investment requirements and procedures for purchase or redemption of shares of the Fund that apply to your variable product are described in the prospectus for the variable product.
Tax Information
Because the only shareholders of the Fund are the insurance companies offering the variable products and as applicable certain funds of funds of the Trust, no discussion is included here about the federal income tax consequences at the shareholder level. The federal income tax consequences for purchasers of a variable product are described in the prospectus for the variable product.
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Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
Pacific Select Distributors, LLC (“PSD”), the distributor for the Fund and for the variable products, may pay broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries (such as insurance companies) for the sale of the variable products and related services, including shareholder servicing. The Fund’s service fee or distribution/service fee, as applicable, which is paid to PSD, can be used for a part of these payments. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the variable product, a share class and/or the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information. Class P shares do not pay a service or distribution/service fee to PSD.
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