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Eagle International Stock Fund
SUMMARY OF INTERNATIONAL STOCK FUND |  3.1.2015
Investment objective
The Eagle International Stock Fund (“International Stock Fund” or the “fund”) seeks capital appreciation.
Fees and expenses of the fund
The tables that follow describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the International Stock Fund. You may qualify for sales discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in the Class A shares of the Eagle Family of Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional, on page 35 of the fund’s Prospectus and on page 27 of the fund’s Statement of Additional Information.
Shareholder fees
(fees paid directly from your investment):
Shareholder Fees Eagle International Stock Fund
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R-3
Class R-5
Class R-6
Maximum Sales Charge Imposed on Purchases (as a % of offering price) 4.75%rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none none none none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (as a % of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is lower) none [1] 1.00%rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none none none none
Redemption Fee none none none none none none
[1] If you purchased $1,000,000 or more of Class A shares of an Eagle mutual fund that were not otherwise eligible for a sales charge waiver and sell the shares within 18 months from the date of purchase, you may pay up to a 1% contingent deferred sales charge at the time of sale.
Annual fund operating expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):
Annual Fund Operating Expenses Eagle International Stock Fund
Class A
Class C
Class I
Class R-3
Class R-5
Class R-6
Management Fees 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.85%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees 0.25%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 1.00%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none 0.50%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none none
Other Expenses 4.86%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.83%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.58%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.87%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.82%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.82%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets
Acquired Fund Fees 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.02%rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses [1] 5.98%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 6.70%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.45%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 6.24%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.69%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.69%rr_ExpensesOverAssets
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement (4.39%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.33%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.28%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.49%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.52%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.62%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 1.59%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 2.37%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.17%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.75%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.17%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.07%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets
[1] Eagle Asset Management, Inc. (“Eagle”) has contractually agreed to waive its investment advisory fee and/or reimburse certain expenses of the fund to the extent that: annual operating expenses of each class exceed a percentage of that class’ average daily net assets through February 29, 2016 as follows: Class A – 1.75%, Class C – 2.55%, Class I – 1.15%, Class R-3 - 1.75%, Class R-5 – 1.15%, and Class R-6 – 1.05%. This expense limitation excludes interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, costs relating to investments in other investment companies, dividends, and extraordinary expenses, and includes offset expense arrangements with the fund’s custodian. The contractual fee waiver can be changed only with the approval of a majority of the fund’s Board of Trustees. Any reimbursement of fund expenses or reduction in Eagle’s investment advisory fees is subject to reimbursement by the fund within the following two fiscal years, if overall expenses fall below the lesser of its then current expense cap or the expense cap in effect at the time of the fee reimbursement.
Expense 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 in the fund 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 fund’s operating expenses remain the same, except that the example reflects the fee waiver/expense reimbursement arrangement for each share class. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example Eagle International Stock Fund (USD $)
Year 1
Year 3
Year 5
Year 10
Class A
629 1,796 2,939 5,702
Class C
340 1,592 2,898 5,975
Class I
119 1,246 2,362 5,110
Class R-3
178 1,450 2,692 5,663
Class R-5
119 1,293 2,450 5,274
Class R-6
109 1,284 2,442 5,269
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 expense example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 96% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal investment strategies
The International Stock Fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of companies economically tied to countries outside of the U.S. Equity securities include common and preferred stocks, warrants or rights exercisable into common or preferred stock, convertible preferred stock, American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), Global Depositary Receipts (“GDRs”) and European Depositary Receipts (“EDRs”). Issuers considered to be economically tied to countries outside of the U.S. include, without limitation: (1) an issuer organized under the laws of or maintaining a principal office or principal place(s) of business outside of the U.S.; (2) an issuer of securities that are principally traded in one or more markets outside the U.S.; (3) an issuer that derives or is currently expected to derive 50% or more of its total sales, revenues, profits, earnings, growth, or another measure of economic activity from, the production or sale of goods or performance of services or making of investments or other economic activity in, outside of the U.S., or that maintains or is currently expected to maintain 50% or more of its employees, assets, investments, operations, or other business activity outside of the U.S.; (4) a governmental or quasi-governmental entity of a country outside of the U.S.; or (5) any other issuer that the subadviser believes may expose the fund’s assets to the economic fortunes and risks of a country or countries outside of the U.S. The fund’s benchmark is the MSCI EAFE® Index which measures large- and mid-cap equity performance across 21 of 23 developed countries, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

In selecting securities for the fund, the subadviser utilizes quantitative tools to implement a “bottom-up,” fundamentally based, investment process. The subadviser constructs a portfolio that seeks to maximize expected return, subject to constraints designed to meet long-run expected active risk goals.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) in order to equitize cash positions, seek exposure to certain markets or market sectors and to hedge against certain market movements. The fund may sell securities when they no longer meet the portfolio managers’ investment criteria and/or to take advantage of more attractive investment opportunities.
Principal risks
The greatest risk of investing in this fund is that you could lose money. The fund invests primarily in common stocks whose values increase and decrease in response to the activities of the companies that issued such stocks, general market conditions and/or economic conditions. As a result, the fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) may also increase or decrease. Investments in this fund are subject to the following primary risks:
  • Equity securities are subject to stock market risk. In addition, common stock generally is subordinate to preferred stock upon the liquidation or bankruptcy of the issuing company. Preferred stocks and convertible preferred stocks are sensitive to movements in interest rates. Investing in depositary receipts entails substantially the same risks as direct investment in foreign securities. Rights and warrants do not carry dividend or voting rights with respect to the underlying securities or any rights in the assets of the issuer, and a right or a warrant ceases to have value if it is not exercised prior to its expiration date;
  • Foreign security risk is the risk of instability in currency exchange rates, political unrest, economic conditions, custodial arrangements or foreign law changes. The risks associated with investments in governmental or quasi-governmental entities of a foreign country are heightened by the potential for unexpected governmental change and inadequate government oversight. Foreign security risk may also apply to ADRs, GDRs and EDRs;
  • Growth stock risk is the risk of a lack of earnings increase or lack of dividend yield;
  • Liquidity risk is the possibility that, during times of widespread market turbulence, trading activity in certain securities may be significantly hampered, which may reduce the returns of the fund because it may be unable to sell the securities at an advantageous price or time;
  • Market timing risk arises because certain types of securities in which the fund invests, including foreign securities, could cause the fund to be at greater risk of market timing activities by fund shareholders;
  • Investing in other investment companies and ETFs carries with it the risk that, by investing in another investment company or ETF, the fund, and therefore its shareholders, indirectly bear the fund’s proportionate share of the fees and expenses paid by shareholders of the other investment company or ETF, in addition to the fees and expenses fund shareholders directly bear in connection with the fund’s own operations;
  • Portfolio turnover risk is the risk that performance may be adversely affected by a high rate of portfolio turnover, which generally leads to greater transaction and tax costs;
  • Sector risk is the risk associated with the fund holding a core portfolio of stocks invested in similar businesses, all of which could be affected by the same economic or market conditions; and
  • Stock market risk is the risk of broad stock market decline or volatility or a decline in particular holdings in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments, public perceptions concerning these developments, and adverse investor sentiment.
Performance
The bar chart that follows illustrates annual fund returns for the periods ended December 31. The table that follows compares the fund’s returns for various periods with benchmark returns. This information is intended to give you some indication of the risk of investing in the fund by demonstrating how its returns have varied over time. The bar chart shows the fund’s Class A share performance from one year to another. The fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. To obtain more current performance data as of the most recent month-end, please visit our website at eagleasset.com.
Bar Chart
During performance period
Return
Quarter Ended
(Class A shares):
   
Best Quarter
9.86%
September 30, 2013
Worst Quarter
(5.29)%
September 30, 2014
The returns in the preceding tables do not reflect sales charges. If the sales charges were reflected, the returns would be lower than those shown.
Average annual total returns
(for the periods ended December 31, 2014):

Fund return (after deduction of sales charges and expenses)
Average Annual Total Returns Eagle International Stock Fund
Inception Date
1-yr
Lifetime
Class A
Feb. 28, 2013 (8.47%) 4.40%
Class A After Taxes on Distributions
Feb. 28, 2013 (10.32%) 3.07%
Class A After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
Feb. 28, 2013 (4.02%) 3.12%
Class C
Feb. 28, 2013 (4.70%) 6.30%
Class I
Feb. 28, 2013 (3.48%) 7.64%
Class R-3
Feb. 28, 2013 (4.10%) 6.99%
Class R-5
Feb. 28, 2013 (3.51%) 7.62%
Class R-6
Feb. 28, 2013 (3.42%) 7.72%
MCSI EAFE® Index (Lifetime period is measured from the inception date of Class A shares) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
Feb. 28, 2013 (4.90%) 6.36%
To obtain more current performance data as of the most recent month-end, please visit our website at eagleasset.com.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historically 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. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account (“IRA”). After-tax returns are shown for Class A only and after-tax returns for Class C, Class I, Class R-3, Class R-5, and Class R-6 will vary. The return after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares 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.