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Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund (Second Prospectus Summary) | Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund
EMERGING MARKETS 2x STRATEGY FUND
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUND - The Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund
(the "Fund") is very different from most other mutual funds in that it seeks
daily leveraged investment results. As a result, the Fund may be riskier than
alternatives that do not use leverage because the performance of an investment
is magnified.

The effect of leverage on the Fund will generally cause the Fund's performance
to not correlate to the performance of the Fund's benchmark (as defined below)
over a period of time greater than one day. This means that the return of the
Fund for a period of longer than a single trading day will be the result of each
day's compounded returns over the period, which will very likely differ from
twice the return of the Fund's underlying index (as defined below) for that
period. As a consequence, especially in periods of market volatility, the path
or trend of the benchmark during the longer period may be at least as important
to the Fund's cumulative return for the longer period as the cumulative return
of the benchmark for the relevant longer period. Further, the return for
investors who invest for a period longer than a single trading day will not be
the product of the return of the Fund's stated investment goal (e.g., 2x) and
the cumulative performance of the underlying index (as defined below).

The Fund is not suitable for all investors. The Fund should be utilized only by
investors who (a) understand the risks associated with the use of leverage,
(b) understand the consequences of seeking daily leveraged investment results,
and (c) intend to actively monitor and manage their investments. Investors who
do not meet these criteria should not buy shares of the Fund. An investment in
the Fund is not a complete investment program.
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE -
The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correlate, before fees and
expenses, to the performance of a specific benchmark on a daily basis. The
Fund's current benchmark is 200% of the performance of the BNY Mellon Emerging
Markets 50 ADR Index (the "underlying index"). The Fund does not seek to achieve
its investment objective over a period of time greater than one day.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND -
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold
A-Class Shares or C-Class 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 $100,000 in certain Rydex|SGI Funds. More information about these and
other discounts is available from you financial professional and under the
"Sales Charges" section on page 306 of the Prospectus and in the "A-Class
Shares - Initial Sales Charges, Reductions, and Waivers" section beginning on
page 108 of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information (the "SAI").
SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund
A-Class Shares
C-Class Shares
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) 4.75% none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of initial purchase price or current market value, whichever is less) none 1.00%
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund
A-Class Shares
C-Class Shares
Management Fees 0.90% 0.90%
Distribution (12b-1) and/or Shareholder Service Fees 0.25% 1.00%
Other Expenses 0.70% 0.70%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.85% 2.60%
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. Although your actual costs
may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund (USD $)
Expense Example, With Redemption, 1 Year
Expense Example, With Redemption, 3 Years
Expense Example, With Redemption, 5 Years
Expense Example, With Redemption, 10 Years
A-Class Shares
654 1,029 1,428 2,541
C-Class Shares
363 808 1,380 2,934
You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares:
Expense Example, No Redemption (USD $)
Expense Example, No Redemption, 1 Year
Expense Example, No Redemption, 3 Years
Expense Example, No Redemption, 5 Years
Expense Example, No Redemption, 10 Years
Emerging Markets 2x Strategy Fund C-Class Shares
263 808 1,380 2,934
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 Total
Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance.
During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 58%
of the average value of its portfolio. However, the Fund's portfolio turnover
rate is calculated without regard to cash instruments or derivatives. If such
instruments were included, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate might be
significantly higher.
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES -
The Fund invests principally in securities of companies included in the underlying
index and in derivative instruments which primarily consist of equity index swaps,
futures contracts, and options on securities, futures contracts, and stock indices.
Equity index swaps and futures and options contracts, if used properly, may enable
the Fund to meet its objective by increasing the Fund's exposure to the securities
included in the underlying index or to securities whose performance is highly
correlated to that of the underlying index. The Fund also may invest in exchange-traded
funds ("ETFs") that provide exposure to emerging market countries and in American
Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") to gain exposure to the underlying index. While the Fund
anticipates investing in these instruments to seek to achieve its investment objective,
the extent of the Fund's investment in these instruments may vary from day to day
depending on a number of different factors, including price, availability, and general
market conditions. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of
its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies
in the underlying index and derivatives and other instruments whose performance is
expected to correspond to that of the underlying index. The BNY Mellon Emerging Markets
50 ADR Index is a capitalization weighted index comprised of the 50 largest emerging
market based ADRs having a free-float market capitalization ranging from approximately
$5.97 billion to over $302.11 billion as of June 30, 2011. Certain of the Fund's
derivative investments may be traded in the over-the-counter ("OTC") market. On a
day-to-day basis, the Fund may hold U.S. government securities or cash equivalents to
collateralize its derivative positions. In an effort to ensure that the Fund is fully
invested on a day-to-day basis, the Fund may conduct any necessary trading activity at
or just prior to the close of the U.S. financial markets. To the extent the underlying
index is concentrated in a particular industry the Fund will necessarily be concentrated
in that industry. The Fund is non-diversified and, therefore, may invest a greater
percentage of its assets in a particular issuer in comparison to a diversified fund.
PRINCIPAL RISKS -
As with all mutual funds, a shareholder is subject to the risk that his or her
investment could lose money. In addition to this risk, the Fund is subject
to a number of additional risks that may affect the value of its shares, including:

Active Trading Risk - Active trading, also called "high portfolio turnover," may
result in higher brokerage costs or mark-up charges, which may negatively affect
Fund performance and result in short-term capital gains, which have a negative
tax effect. Large movements of assets into and out of the Fund due to active
trading also may adversely affect the Fund's ability to achieve its investment
objective.

Correlation and Compounding Risk - A number of factors may affect the Fund's
ability to achieve a high degree of correlation with its benchmark, and there
can be no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation.
Failure to achieve a high degree of correlation may prevent the Fund from
achieving its investment objective. The risk of the Fund not achieving its
investment objective will be more acute when the underlying index has an extreme
one-day movement approaching 50%. In addition, as a result of compounding and
the times at which the Fund and the underlying index calculate their respective
NAVs, the Fund's performance is likely to be either greater than or less than
the performance of the underlying index times the stated multiple in the Fund's
investment objective, before accounting for fees and fund expenses.

Compounding affects all investments, but has a more significant impact on a
leveraged index fund. In general, particularly during periods of higher index
volatility, compounding will cause longer-term results to be more or less than
the return of the Fund's benchmark. This effect becomes more pronounced as
volatility increases.

Fund performance for periods greater than one day can be estimated given any set
of assumptions for the following factors: (a) underlying index performance;
(b) underlying index volatility; (c) financing rates associated with leverage;
(d) other Fund expenses; (e) dividends paid by companies in the underlying
index; and (f) period of time. The chart below illustrates the impact of two
principal factors - volatility and index performance - on Fund performance. The
chart shows estimated Fund returns for a number of combinations of performance
and volatility over a one-year period. Performance shown in the chart assumes:
(a) no dividends paid by the companies included in the underlying index; (b) no
Fund expenses; and (c) a cost of leverage of zero percent. If Fund expenses were
included, the Fund's performance would be lower than shown.

Areas shaded lighter represent those scenarios where the Fund can be expected to
return more than twice the performance of the underlying index; conversely,
areas shaded darker represent those scenarios where the Fund can be expected to
return less than twice the performance of the underlying index.

Index Performance                     Annualized Volatility
1x           2x           10%        25%        50%        75%        100%
-60%            -120%       -84%       -85%       -88%       -91%       -94%
-50%            -100%       -75%       -77%       -81%       -86%       -91%
-40%             -80%       -65%       -66%       -72%       -80%       -87%
-30%             -60%       -52%       -54%       -62%       -72%       -82%
-20%             -40%       -37%       -41%       -49%       -64%       -78%
-10%             -20%       -20%       -24%       -37%       -55%       -71%
  0%               0%        -1%        -5%       -22%       -43%       -65%
 10%              20%        19%        14%        -5%       -31%       -58%
 20%              40%        42%        36%        11%       -15%       -47%
 30%              60%        67%        59%        32%        -3%       -38%
 40%              80%        93%        84%        52%        11%       -28%
 50%             100%       122%       111%        76%        28%       -20%
 60%             120%       154%       140%       100%        44%       -10%

The underlying index's annualized historical volatility rate for the five year
period ended June 30, 2011 is 27.19%. The underlying index's highest one-year
volatility rate during the five year period is 43.74%. The underlying index's
annualized performance for the five year period ended June 30, 2011 is 10.74%.

Historical underlying index volatility and performance are not indications of
what the underlying index volatility and performance will be in the future.

Counterparty Credit Risk - The Fund may make investments in financial
instruments involving counterparties that attempt to gain exposure to a
particular group of securities, index or asset class without actually purchasing
those securities or investments, or to hedge a position. The Fund's use of such
financial instruments, including swap agreements, involves risks that are
different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions.
For example, if a swap agreement counterparty defaults on its payment
obligations to the Fund, this default will cause the value of your investment in
the Fund to decrease. Swap agreements also may be considered to be illiquid.

Currency Risk - The Fund's indirect and direct exposure to foreign currencies
subjects the Fund to the risk that those currencies will decline in value
relative to the U.S. Dollar, or, in the case of short positions, that the U.S.
Dollar will decline in value relative to the currency being hedged. The Fund
also may incur transaction costs in connection with conversions between various
currencies.

Depositary Receipt Risk - The Fund may hold the securities of non-U.S. companies
in the form of ADRs. The underlying securities of the ADRs in the Fund's
portfolio are subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates that
may affect the value of the Fund's portfolio. In addition, the value of the
securities underlying the ADRs may change materially when the U.S. markets are
not open for trading. Investments in the underlying foreign securities also
involve political and economic risks distinct from those associated with
investing in the securities of U.S. issuers.

Derivatives Risk - The Fund's investments in derivatives may pose risks in
addition to those associated with investing directly in securities or other
investments, including illiquidity of the derivatives, imperfect correlations
with underlying investments or the Fund's other portfolio holdings, lack of
availability and counterparty risk.

Early Closing Risk - The Fund is subject to the risk that unanticipated early
closings of securities exchanges and other financial markets may result in the
Fund's inability to buy or sell securities or other financial instruments on
that day and may cause the Fund to incur substantial trading losses.

Emerging Markets Risk - The Fund's investments may have exposure to emerging
markets. Emerging markets can be subject to greater social, economic,
regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be extremely volatile because
they are countries or markets with low- to middle-income economies as classified
by the World Bank, and other countries or markets with similar characteristics
as determined by the Advisor.

Foreign Issuer Exposure Risk - The Fund may invest in securities of foreign
companies directly, or in financial instruments, such as ADRs, that are
indirectly linked to the performance of foreign issuers. Foreign securities
markets generally have less trading volume and less liquidity than U.S. markets,
and prices in some foreign markets may fluctuate more than those of securities
traded on U.S. markets.

Investment in Investment Companies Risk - Investing in other investment
companies subjects the Fund to those risks affecting the investment company,
including the possibility that the value of the underlying securities held by
the investment company could decrease. Moreover, the Fund will incur its pro
rata share of the expenses of the underlying investment companies' expenses.

Large-Capitalization Securities Risk - The Fund is subject to the risk that
large-capitalization stocks may underperform other segments of the equity market
or the equity market as a whole.

Leveraging Risk - The Fund achieves leveraged exposure to the underlying index
through the use of derivative instruments. The more the Fund invests in
leveraged instruments, the more this leverage will magnify any losses on those
investments. The Fund's investment in these instruments generally requires a
small investment relative to the amount of investment exposure assumed. As a
result, such investments may give rise to losses that exceed the amount invested
in those instruments. Since the Fund's investment strategy involves consistently
applied leverage, the value of the Fund's shares will tend to increase or
decrease more than the value of any increase or decrease in the underlying
index. Leverage also will have the effect of magnifying tracking error.

Liquidity Risk - In certain circumstances, it may be difficult for the Fund to
purchase and sell particular investments within a reasonable time at a fair
price. In addition, the ability of the Fund to assign an accurate daily value to
certain investments may be difficult, and the Advisor may be required to fair
value the investments.

Market Risk - The Fund's investments in securities and derivatives, in general,
are subject to market risks that may cause their prices, and therefore the
Fund's value, to fluctuate over time. An investment in the Fund may lose money.

Mid-Capitalization Securities Risk - The Fund is subject to the risk that
medium-capitalization stocks may underperform other segments of the equity
market or the equity market as a whole.

Non-Diversification Risk - The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest
a greater portion of its assets in securities of individual issuers than a
diversified fund. As a result, changes in the market value of a single security
could cause greater fluctuations in the value of Fund shares than would occur in
a diversified fund.

OTC Trading Risk - Certain of the derivatives in which the Fund may invest may
be traded (and privately negotiated) in the OTC market. While the OTC
derivatives market is the primary trading venue for many derivatives, it is largely
unregulated. As a result and similar to other privately negotiated contracts,
the Fund is subject to counterparty credit risk with respect to such derivative
contracts.

Passive Investment Risk - The Fund is not actively managed and the Advisor does
not attempt to take defensive positions in declining markets. Therefore, the
Fund may be subject to greater losses in a declining market than a fund that is
actively managed.

Portfolio Turnover Risk - The Fund's strategy may frequently involve buying and
selling portfolio securities to rebalance the Fund's exposure to various market
sectors. Higher portfolio turnover may result in the Fund paying higher levels
of transaction costs and generating greater tax liabilities for shareholders.
Portfolio turnover risk may cause the Fund's performance to be less than you
expect.

Status as a Regulated Investment Company Risk - The Fund may realize gains from
the sale or other disposition of foreign currencies and other income (including
gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived from investing in
stock, securities, or foreign currencies. The Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized to issue regulations that might cause the Fund, as a result of its
realization of such foreign currency gains, to fail to qualify as a regulated
investment company. As of the date of this Prospectus, no regulations have been
issued pursuant to this authorization, but such regulations may be issued in the
future.

Tracking Error Risk - The Advisor may not be able to cause the Fund's
performance to correlate to that of the Fund's benchmark, either on a daily or
aggregate basis. Factors such as Fund expenses, imperfect correlation between
the Fund's investments and those of the underlying index, rounding of share
prices, changes to the composition of the underlying index, regulatory policies,
high portfolio turnover rate, and the use of leverage all contribute to tracking
error. Tracking error may cause the Fund's performance to be less than you
expect.

Trading Halt Risk - If a trading halt occurs, the Fund may temporarily be unable
to purchase or sell securities, options or futures contracts. Such a trading
halt near the time the Fund prices its shares may limit the Fund's ability to
use leverage and may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION -
A comparison of the Fund's performance with that of a broad measure of market
performance may give some indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund;
however, the Fund is new and does not have a full calendar year of performance
history. Of course, once the Fund has performance for a full calendar year,
this past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate
how the Fund will perform in the future.

Updated performance information is available on the Fund's website at
www.rydex-sgi.com or by calling Rydex|SGI Client Services at 800-820-0888.