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Total International Stock Market Index Portfolio
Portfolio Summary
Investment Objective
The Portfolio seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks issued by companies located in developed and emerging markets, excluding the United States.
Fees and Expenses
The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The expenses shown in the table and in the example that follows do not reflect additional fees and expenses associated with the annuity or life insurance program through which you invest. If those additional fees and expenses were included, overall expenses would be higher.
Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses

(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
Total International Stock Market Index Portfolio
Total International Stock Market Index Portfolio
Management Fees none
12b-1 Distribution Fee none
Other Expenses none
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 0.11%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.11% [1]
[1] The expense information shown in the table reflects estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.
Example
The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio (based on the fees and expenses of the underlying funds) with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It illustrates the hypothetical expenses that you would incur over various periods if you were to invest $10,000 in the Portfolio’s shares. This example assumes that the Portfolio provides a return of 5% each year and that total annual operating expenses of the Portfolio and its underlying funds remain as stated in the preceding table. You would incur these hypothetical expenses whether or not you redeem your investment at the end of the given period. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example
1 Year
3 Years
Total International Stock Market Index Portfolio | Total International Stock Market Index Portfolio | USD ($) 11 35
Portfolio Turnover
The Portfolio may pay transaction costs, such as purchase fees, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the previous expense example, reduce the Portfolio’s performance. The Portfolio has no operating history and therefore has no portfolio turnover information.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Portfolio employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index, a float-adjusted market-capitalization-weighted index designed to measure equity market performance of companies located in developed and emerging markets, excluding the United States. The Index includes approximately 5,800 stocks of companies located in over 45 countries. As of April 30, 2017, the largest markets covered in the Index were Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Germany (which made up approximately 8%, 6%, 3.1%, 3.1%, and 3%, respectively, of the Index’s market capitalization). The Portfolio intends to obtain its exposure to the stocks in the Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in a mix of Vanguard equity index funds (underlying funds). The Portfolio does not invest directly in the securities of its benchmark index. As a result, it will have higher tracking error than if it owned securities of the index directly. The Portfolio’s allocations to the underlying funds will change over time as the composition of the Index changes.
Principal Risks
An investment in the Portfolio could lose money over short or even long periods. You should expect the Portfolio’s share price and total return to fluctuate within a wide range. Although the Portfolio seeks to track the Index, its performance typically can be expected to fall short by a small percentage representing operating costs of the underlying funds. The Portfolio is subject to the following risks through its investments in the underlying funds, which could affect the Portfolio’s performance:

• Stock market risk, which is the chance that stock prices overall will decline.

Stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices. In addition, investments in foreign stocks can be riskier than U.S. stock investments. Foreign stocks tend to be more volatile and less liquid than U.S. stocks. The prices of foreign stocks and the prices of U.S. stocks may move in opposite directions.

• Investment style risk, which is the chance that returns from non-U.S. small- and mid-capitalization stocks will trail returns from global stock markets. Historically, non-U.S. small- and mid-cap stocks have been more volatile in price than the large-cap stocks that dominate the global markets, and they often perform quite differently.

• Country/regional risk, which is the chance that world events—such as political upheaval, financial troubles, or natural disasters—will adversely affect the value of securities issued by companies in foreign countries or regions. Because the underlying funds in which the Portfolio invests may invest a large portion of their assets in securities of companies located in any one country or region, the Portfolio’s performance may be hurt disproportionately by the poor performance of its investments in that area. Country/regional risk is especially high in emerging markets.

• Currency risk, which is the chance that the value of a foreign investment, measured in U.S. dollars, will decrease because of unfavorable changes in currency exchange rates.

Currency risk is especially high in emerging markets.

• Emerging markets risk, which is the chance that the stocks of companies located in emerging markets will be substantially more volatile, and substantially less liquid, than the stocks of companies located in more developed foreign markets because, among other factors, emerging markets can have greater custodial and operational risks; less developed legal, tax, regulatory, and accounting systems; and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

• Tracking error risk, which is the chance that the Portfolio’s performance may differ from that of the index that it tracks. The Portfolio and the underlying funds in which it invests may experience tracking error from their respective indexes. The Portfolio may experience tracking error because the securities held by the underlying funds in which it invests are not identical to the securities of the Portfolio’s target index. In addition, tracking error may occur because of pricing differences and other factors. Tracking error also may result because the Portfolio or an underlying fund incurs fees and expenses, while the underlying index does not.

An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Annual Total Returns
This is the Portfolio’s initial prospectus, so it does not contain performance data.