497K 1 d497k.htm ING INTERNATIONAL SMALLCAP MULTI-MANAGER FUND ING International SmallCap Multi-Manager Fund

Summary Prospectus February 26, 2010

ING International SmallCap Multi-Manager Fund

Class / Ticker A/NTKLX; B/NAPBX; C/NARCX; I/NAPIX; O/NAPOX; W/ISCWX

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. The Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), both dated February 26, 2010, and most recent financial report to shareholders dated October 31, 2009 are incorporated by reference into (are legally considered part of) this Summary Prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Prospectus and other Fund information, go to www.INGFunds.com/literature, email a request to Literature_request@INGFunds.com, contact a shareholder services representative at 1-800-992-0180 or ask any financial intermediary (such as a bank or broker-dealer) through which shares of the Fund may be purchased or sold.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The Fund seeks maximum long-term capital appreciation.

FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND

These tables describe 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 ING Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the discussion in the Sales Charges section of the Prospectus (page 98) or the Statement of Additional Information (page 167).

Shareholder Fees
Fees paid directly from your investment

Maximum sales charge (load) as a % of offering price Maximum deferred sales charge as a % of purchase or sales price, whichever is less
A 5.75 None
B None 5.00
C None 1.00
I None None
O None None
W None None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Expenses you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment

A B C I O W
Management Fees % 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees % 0.35 1.00 1.00 N/A 0.25 N/A
Administrative Services Fees % 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
Other Expenses % 0.46 0.46 0.46 0.31 0.46 0.46
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses1 % 1.91 2.56 2.56 1.41 1.81 1.56
Waivers, Reimbursements and Recoupments2 %
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses after Waivers, Reimbursements and Recoupments % 1.91 2.56 2.56 1.41 1.81 1.56
1 Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses may be higher than the Fund’s ratio of expenses to average net assets shown in the Fund’s Financial Highlights, which reflects the operating expenses of the Fund and does not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
2 The adviser is contractually obligated to limit expenses to 1.95%, 2.60%, 2.60%, 1.40%, 1.85% and 1.60% for Class A, Class B, Class C, Class I, Class O and Class W shares, respectively, through at least March 1, 2011; the obligation does not extend to interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and Acquired fund Fees and Expenses. The obligation will automatically renew for one-year terms unless it is terminated by the Fund or the adviser upon written notice within 90 days of the end of the current term or upon termination of the advisory agreement and is subject to possible recoupment by the adviser within three years. Also, the adviser is contractually obligated to waive a portion of the management fee through March 1, 2011. Based upon net assets as of October 31, 2009, the management fee waiver for the Fund would be 0.005%. There is no guarantee that the management fee waiver will continue after March 1, 2011. The management fee waiver will continue only if the adviser elects to renew it.
Expense Examples $

The Examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in shares of the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Examples also assume that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. It shows costs if you sold (redeemed) your shares at the end of the period or continued to hold them. The Examples also assume that your investment had 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:



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Share Status 1 Yr 3 Yrs 5 Yrs 10 Yrs
A Sold or Held $ 758 1,139 1,543 2,670
B Sold $ 759 1,094 1,556 2,727
Held $ 259 794 1,356 2,727
C Sold $ 359 794 1,356 2,886
Held $ 259 794 1,356 2,886
I Sold or Held $ 144 444 767 1,681
O Sold or Held $ 184 567 976 2,117
W Sold or Held $ 159 491 846 1,846

The Examples reflect applicable expense limitation agreements and/or waivers in effect, if any, for the one-year period and the first year of the three-, five-, and ten-year periods.

Portfolio Turnover % of average value of portfolio

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 transactions costs and may mean higher taxes if you are investing in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Examples, affect the Fund’s performance.

During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 103% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of small market capitalization companies. The Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days’ prior notice of any change in this investment policy. The Fund considers small-capitalization companies to be those that have a market capitalization, at the time of purchase, of up to $5 billion. At least 65% of the Fund’s assets will normally be invested in companies located outside the United States, including companies located in countries with emerging securities markets. The Fund may invest up to 35% of its assets in U.S. issuers. The Fund may hold both growth and value stocks and at times may favor one over the other based on available opportunities.

The Fund invests primarily in common stocks or securities convertible into common stocks of international issuers, but may invest from time to time in such instruments as forward currency contracts; futures contracts; rights; and depositary receipts. The Fund may invest in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules, regulations and exemptive orders thereunder (“1940 Act”).

Acadian Asset Management LLC (“Acadian”) and Schroder Investment Management North America Inc. (“Schroders”) provide the day-to-day management of the Fund. The sub-advisers act independently of each other and use their own methodology for selecting investments.

Acadian

Acadian employs a quantitative investment process which is driven by proprietary valuation models that combine a bottom-up view of the attractiveness of individual securities within each market with a top-down view of the attractiveness of each region/industry group, thereby capturing value-added at both the stock and the country levels.

Schroders

Schroders employs a fundamental investment approach that considers macroeconomic factors while focusing primarily on company specific factors. The company specific factors include the company’s potential for long-term growth, financial condition, quality of management, and sensitivity to cyclical factors, as well as the relative value of the company’s securities compared with those of other companies and the market as a whole. In selecting investments for the Fund, Schroders considers, among other things, whether a company is likely to have above-average earnings growth, whether its securities are attractively valued and whether the company has any proprietary advantages. Schroders generally sells a security when its market price approaches its estimate of fair value or when it identifies a significantly more attractive investment candidate.

Each Sub-Adviser may sell securities for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into opportunities believed to be more promising, among others.

The Fund may also lend portfolio securities on a short-term or long-term basis, up to 30% of its assets.

PRINCIPAL RISKS

You could lose money on an investment in the Fund. Any of the following risks, among others, could affect Fund performance or cause the Fund to lose money or to underperform market averages of other funds.

Company  The price of a given company’s stock could decline or underperform for many reasons including, among others, poor management, financial problems, or business challenges. If a company declares bankruptcy or becomes insolvent, its stock could become worthless.

Convertible Securities  Convertible securities are securities that are convertible into or exercisable for common stock at a stated price or rate. Convertible securities are subject to the usual risks associated with debt securities, such as interest rate and credit risk. In addition, because convertible securities react to changes in the value of the stocks into which they convert, they are subject to market risk.

Currency  To the extent that the Fund invests directly in foreign currencies or in securities denominated in or that trade in foreign (non-U.S.) currencies it is subject to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar or, in the case of hedging positions, that the U.S. dollar will decline in value relative to the currency being hedged.




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Derivative Instruments  Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks, including the risk of changes in the market price of the underlying securities, credit risk with respect to the counterparty, risk of loss due to changes in interest rates and liquidity risk. The use of certain derivatives may also have a leveraging effect which may increase the volatility of the Fund and reduce its returns.

Foreign Investments/Developing and Emerging Markets Investing in foreign (non-U.S.) securities may result in the Fund experiencing more rapid and extreme changes in value than a fund that invests exclusively in securities of U.S. companies, due to smaller markets, differing reporting, accounting and auditing standards, and nationalization, expropriation or confiscatory taxation, foreign currency fluctuations, currency blockage, or political changes or diplomatic developments. Foreign investment risks typically are greater in developing and emerging markets than in developed markets.

Growth Investing  Prices of growth stocks typically reflect high expectations for future company growth, and may fall quickly and significantly if investors suspect that actual growth may be less than expected. Growth companies typically lack any dividends that might cushion price declines. Growth stocks tend to be more volatile than value stocks, and may underperform the market as a whole over any given time period.

Investment By Other Funds  Various other mutual funds and/or funds-of-funds, including some ING funds, may invest in the Fund. If investments by these other funds result in large inflows or outflows of cash from the Fund, the Fund’s performance or realization of capital gains could be affected.

Investment Model  The Sub-Adviser’s proprietary model may not adequately allow for existing or unforeseen market factors or the interplay between such factors.

Liquidity  If a security is illiquid, the Fund might be unable to sell the security at a time when the Fund’s sub-adviser might wish to sell, and the security could have the effect of decreasing the overall level of the Fund’s liquidity. Further, the lack of an established secondary market may make it more difficult to value illiquid securities, which could vary from the amount the Fund could realize upon disposition. The Fund may make investments that become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perception. The Fund could lose money if it cannot sell a security at the time and price that would be most beneficial to the Fund.

Market  Stock prices are volatile and are affected by the real or perceived impacts of such factors as economic conditions and political events. The stock market tends to be cyclical, with periods when stock prices generally rise and periods when stock prices generally decline. Any given stock market segment may remain out of favor with investors for a short or long period of time, and stocks as an asset class may underperform bonds or other asset classes during some periods. From time to time, the stock market may not favor the growth- or value-oriented securities in which the Fund invests. Rather, the market could favor securities to which the Fund is not exposed or may not favor equities at all.

Other Investment Companies  The main risk of investing in other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, is the risk that the value of the securities underlying the investment company might decrease. Because the Fund may invest in other investment companies, you will pay a proportionate share of the expenses of that other investment company (including management fees, administration fees and custodial fees) in addition to the expenses of the Fund.

Small-Capitalization Company  Investments in small-capitalization companies involve greater risk than is customarily associated with larger, more established companies due to the greater business risks of small size, limited markets and financial resources, narrow product lines and the frequent lack of depth of management.

Securities Lending  Securities lending involves two primary risks: “investment risk” and “borrower default risk.” Investment risk is the risk that the Fund will lose money from the investment of the cash collateral received from the borrower. Borrower default risk is the risk that the Fund will lose money due to the failure of a borrower to return a borrowed security in a timely manner.

Value Investing  Securities that appear to be undervalued may never appreciate to the extent expected. Further, because the prices of value-oriented securities tend to correlate more closely with economic cycles than growth-oriented securities, they generally are more sensitive to changing economic conditions, such as changes in interest rates, corporate earnings and industrial production.

An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board or any other government agency.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The following information is intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The following bar chart and table show the changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year, and the table compares the Fund’s performance to the performance of a broad-based securities market index/indices for the same period. The Fund’s performance information reflects applicable fee waivers and/or expense limitations in effect during the period presented. Absent such fee waivers/expense limitations, if any, performance would have been lower. The bar chart shows the performance of the Fund’s Class A shares, but does not reflect the impact of sales charges. If it did, returns would be lower than those shown. Other class shares performance would be higher than Class A performance because of the higher expenses paid by Class A shares. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is no guarantee of future results. For the most recent performance figures, go to www.INGFunds.com/literature or call 1-800-992-0180.




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Calendar Year Total Returns Class A (as of December 31 of each year)

Best quarter: 2nd, 2009, 34.59% and Worst quarter: 3rd, 2008, (28.34)%

Average Annual Total Returns%
(for the periods ended December 31, 2009)

1 Yr 5 Yrs
(or since
inception)
10 Yrs Inception
Date
Class A before taxes % 37.06 2.82 0.13 08/31/94
After tax on distributions % 36.99 2.09 (0.45)
After tax on distributions with sale % 24.59 2.43 0.00
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 5.18 5.97
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 4.99 5.60
Class B before taxes % 39.38 2.98 0.09 05/31/95
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 5.18 5.97
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 4.99

5.60
Class C before taxes % 43.42 3.35 0.09 08/31/94
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 5.18 5.97
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 4.99 5.60
Class I before taxes % 46.19 0.03 N/A 12/21/05
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 1.332 N/A
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 1.102 N/A
Class O before taxes % 45.63 (18.99) N/A 06/04/08
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 (14.69)2 N/A
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 (14.94)2 N/A
Class W before taxes % 46.14 (11.63) N/A 02/12/08
S&P Developed Ex-U.S. SmallCap Index1 % 45.07 (8.54)2 N/A
S&P EPAC SmallCap Index1 % 41.54 (8.70)2 N/A
1 The index returns do not reflect deductions for fees, expenses or taxes.
2 Reflects index performance since the date closest to the Class’ inception for which data is available.

After tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. In some cases the after-tax returns may exceed the return before taxes due to an assumed tax benefit from any losses on a sale of Fund shares at the end of the measurement period. After-tax returns are shown for Class A shares only. After-tax returns for other classes will vary.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Investment Adviser ING Investments, LLC
Sub-Adviser Acadian Asset Management LLC
Portfolio Managers
John R. Chisholm, CFA Matthew J. Cohen, CFA
Portfolio Manager (since 3/05) Portfolio Manager (since 3/05)
Constantine P. Papageorgiou, CFA Brian K. Wolahan, CFA
Portfolio Manager (since 2/09) Portfolio Manager (since 2/09)
Qi R. Zeng, CFA
Portfolio Manager (since 2/09)
Sub-Adviser Schroder Investment Management North America Inc.
Portfolio Manager
Matthew Dobbs
Portfolio Manager (since 12/07)

PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES

Shares of the Fund may be purchased or sold on any business day (normally any day when the New York Stock Exchange is open). Generally, purchase and redemption orders for Fund shares are processed at the net asset value next calculated after an order is received by the Fund’s distributor, ING Funds Distributor, LLC. You can buy or sell shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary; by visiting our website at www.ingfunds.com; by writing to us at ING Funds; 7337 East Doubletree Ranch Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258; or by calling us at 1-800-992-0180.

Minimum Initial Investment $ by share class

A,B,C I O W
Non-retirement accounts $ 1,000 250,000 1,000 1,000
Retirement accounts $ 250 250,000 250 1,000
Certain omnibus accounts $ 250
Pre-Authorized Investment Plan $ 1,000 1,000

There are no minimums for additional investments except that the Pre-Authorized Investment Plan requires a monthly investment of at least $100. For Class O shares, if you are unable to invest at least $1,000 ($250 for retirement accounts/ESAs), you may open your account for $100 and $100 per month using the Automatic Investment Plan. This allows you to invest regular amounts at regular intervals until you reach the required initial minimum.

TAX INFORMATION

The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxable as ordinary income or capital gains.

PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer of other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by


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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 Web site for more information.SPRO-INTSCMULTI


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