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Summary Prospectus
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund
 January 30, 2020


Class Y Ticker: TABYX Institutional Class Ticker: TABOX

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund’s prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated January 30, 2020, as amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund, go to TouchstoneInvestments.com/Resources, call 1.800.543.0407, or ask any financial advisor, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the Fund.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Touchstone Funds’ annual and semi-annual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the shareholder reports from Touchstone Funds or from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, annual and semi-annual shareholder reports will be available on the Touchstone Funds’ website (TouchstoneInvestments.com/Resources), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

You may elect to receive all future annual and semi-annual shareholder reports in paper, free of charge. If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. To elect to receive paper copies of shareholder reports through the mail or otherwise change your delivery method, contact your financial intermediary or, if you hold your shares directly through Touchstone Funds, visit TouchstoneInvestments.com/Resources/Edelivery or call Touchstone Funds toll-free at 1.800.543.0407. Your election to receive shareholder reports in paper will apply to all Touchstone Funds that you hold through your financial intermediary or directly with Touchstone.

TOUCHSTONE ANTI-BENCHMARK® US CORE EQUITY FUND SUMMARY
 
The Fund’s Investment Goal
 
The Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund (the “Fund”) seeks capital appreciation.
 
The Fund’s Fees and Expenses
 
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.  More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional, in the section titled “Choosing a Class of Shares” in the Fund’s prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") on page 93 and 103, respectively, and in Appendix A–Intermediary-Specific Sales Charge Waivers and Discounts to the Fund's prospectus. If you purchase Class Y shares through a broker acting solely as an agent on behalf of its customers, that broker may charge you a commission. Such commissions, if any, are not charged by the Fund and are not reflected in the fee table or expense example below.


Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund Summary

 
 
Class Y
 
Institutional
Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
 
 
 
 
Wire Redemption Fee*
 
Up to $15

 
Up to $15

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
 
 

 
 

Management Fees
 
0.35
 %
 
0.35
 %
Other Expenses
 
110.54
 %
 
0.50
 %
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
 
110.89
 %
 
0.85
 %
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(1)
 
(110.35
)%
 
(0.41
)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(1)
 
0.54
 %
 
0.44
 %
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*The wire redemption fee is capped at $15. In addition, the wire redemption fee may not exceed two percent (2%) of the amount being redeemed.
(1)Touchstone Advisors, Inc. (the "Advisor" or "Touchstone Advisors") and Touchstone Funds Group Trust (the “Trust”) have entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement whereby Touchstone Advisors will waive a portion of its fees or reimburse certain Fund expenses (excluding dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales; interest; taxes; brokerage commissions and other transaction costs; portfolio transaction and investment related expenses, including expenses associated with the Fund's liquidity providers; other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; the cost of “Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses,” if any; and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business) in order to limit annual Fund operating expenses to 0.54% and 0.44% of average daily net assets for Class Y and Institutional Class shares, respectively. This contractual expense limitation is effective through January 29, 2021, but can be terminated by a vote of the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) if it deems the termination to be beneficial to the Fund’s shareholders. The terms of the contractual expense limitation agreement provide that Touchstone Advisors is entitled to recoup, subject to approval by the Board, such amounts waived or reimbursed for a period of up to three years from the date on which Touchstone Advisors reduced its compensation or assumed expenses for the Fund. The Fund will make repayments to the Advisor only if such repayment does not cause the annual fund operating expenses (after the repayment is taken into account) to exceed both (1) the expense cap in place when such amounts were waived or reimbursed and (2) the Fund’s current expense limitation.

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, except as indicated, redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods.  The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same and that all fee waivers or expense limits for the Fund will expire after one year.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 
 
Class Y
 
Institutional Class
1 Year
 
$
55

 
$
45

3 Years
 
$
5,847

 
$
230

5 Years
 
$
5,847

 
$
431

10 Years
 
$
5,847

 
$
1,011


Portfolio Turnover.  The Fund pays transaction costs, such as brokerage 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

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not reflected in total annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the period from commencement of operations (November 19, 2018) through September 30, 2019, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 137% of the average value of its portfolio.
 
The Fund’s Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets in U.S. equity securities. The Fund’s 80% policy is a non-fundamental investment policy that can be changed by the Fund upon 60 days’ prior notice to shareholders. The Fund pursues its objective by seeking to track the total return, before fees and expenses, of the TOBAM Anti–Benchmark® US Core Equity Index (the "Index"). The Index is a proprietary rules–based index created by the Fund's sub–advisor, TOBAM S.A.S. ("TOBAM"), that is designed to create a more diversified equity portfolio of U.S. equity securities relative to traditional market capitalization weighted benchmarks. The Fund intends to fully replicate the Index to achieve its investment objective, meaning the Fund will generally invest in all of the component securities of the Index in the same approximate proportions as the Index.

The equity securities that comprise the Index include common stock and preferred stock. These securities may be listed on an exchange or traded over-the-counter.

The Index is based on TOBAM's proprietary quantitative model, which selects and weights companies to maximize diversification. TOBAM quantitatively selects securities, subject to certain constraints, that maximize the portfolio's patented Diversification Ratio®, a proprietary mathematical metric based on the volatility of each Index constituent and its correlation to the other Index constituents. Such constraints include a minimum and maximum weight for any given stock. TOBAM's Anti-Benchmark® strategy seeks to avoid the concentration risk that exists in traditional market capitalization-weighted indices through its quantitative approach to diversification.

The Index typically is reconstituted (i.e., Index constituents are added or deleted and weights are reset) monthly. The Fund will be rebalanced following the same schedule as the Index. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading as part of its principal investment strategies.

The Fund’s Principal Risks
 
The Fund’s share price will fluctuate. You could lose money on your investment in the Fund and the Fund could also return less than other investments. As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment goal.  You can find more information about the Fund’s investments and risks under the “Principal Investment Strategies and Risks” section of the Fund’s prospectus. The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below.
 
Equity Securities Risk: The Fund is subject to the risk that stock prices will fall over short or extended periods of time. Individual companies may report poor results or be negatively affected by industry and/or economic trends and developments. The prices of securities issued by these companies may decline in response to such developments, which could result in a decline in the value of the Fund’s shares.
 
Preferred Stock Risk: In the event an issuer is liquidated or declares bankruptcy, the claims of owners of bonds take precedence over the claims of those who own preferred and common stock. If interest rates rise, the fixed dividend on preferred stocks may be less attractive, causing the price of preferred stocks to decline.
 
Management Risk: In managing the Fund’s portfolio, the Advisor engages one or more sub-advisors to make investment decisions for a portion of or the entire portfolio. There is a risk that the Advisor may be unable to identify and retain sub-advisors who achieve superior investment returns relative to other similar sub-advisors.


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Passive Investment Risk: As the Fund is intended to track the Index, portfolio managers do not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including during declining markets. As a result, the Fund's performance may be adversely affected by a general decline in the market segments relating to its Index.

Quantitative Strategy Risk:  TOBAM uses proprietary statistical analyses and models to construct the Index, which the Fund seeks to track.  A securities portfolio selected using TOBAM’s proprietary models can perform differently than the market as a whole as a result of the correlation factors used in the analysis to construct the models, the weight placed on each factor, and changes in the factors' historical trends. As a result, the Fund may be more or less exposed to a risk factor, such as sector risk, than its individual holdings. Quantitative models are subject to technical issues including programming and data inaccuracies, are based on assumptions, and rely on data that is subject to limitations (e.g., inaccuracies, staleness), any of which could adversely affect their effectiveness or predictive value.

Tracking Error Risk: As with all index funds, the performance of the Fund and its Index may differ from each other for a variety of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses and portfolio transaction costs not incurred by the Index.

Portfolio Turnover Risk: Frequent and active trading may result in greater expenses to the Fund, which may lower the Fund's performance and may result in the realization of substantial capital gains, including net short-term capital gains. As a result, high portfolio turnover may reduce the Fund's returns.
 
The Fund’s Performance

The bar chart and performance table below illustrate some indication of the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from calendar year to calendar year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns for one year and since inception compare with the Russell 1000® Index. Past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. More recent performance information is available at no cost by visiting TouchstoneInvestments.com or by calling 1.800.543.0407.

Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund — Class Y Shares Total Returns as of December 31
 
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Best Quarter: First Quarter 2019 10.99%
 
Worst Quarter: Third Quarter 2019 0.95%

After-tax returns are calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on a given distribution reinvestment date and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns may differ from those shown and depend on your tax situation. The after-tax returns do not apply to shares held in an individual retirement account ("IRA"), 401(k), or other tax-advantaged account. The after-tax returns shown in the table are for Class Y shares only. The after-tax returns for other classes of shares offered by the Fund will differ from the Class Y shares' after-tax returns.

Average Annual Total Returns
For the periods ended December 31, 2019
 
1 Year
 
Since Inception (11-18-2018)
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund — Class Y
 
 
 
Return Before Taxes
25.91
%
 
13.59
%
Return After Taxes on Distributions
25.42
%
 
12.98
%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
15.65
%
 
10.27
%
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® US Core Equity Fund — Institutional Class
 
 
 
Return Before Taxes
25.96
%
 
13.64
%
Russell 1000® Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
31.43
%
 
18.31
%

The Fund’s Management
 
Investment Advisor
 
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. serves as the Fund's investment advisor.
Sub-Advisor
 
Portfolio
Managers
 
Investment Experience
 with the Fund
 
Primary Title with 
Sub-Advisor
TOBAM S.A.S.
 
Tarik Allouache
 
Managing the Fund since 2019
 
Portfolio Manager
 
Ayaaz Allymun
 
Managing the Fund since its inception in 2018
 
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Mara Maccagnan
 
Managing the Fund since its inception in 2018
 
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Guillaume Toison
 
Managing the Fund since its inception in 2018
 
Portfolio Manager
 

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Buying and Selling Fund Shares
 
Minimum Investment Requirements
 
Class Y
 
Initial
Investment
 
Additional
Investment
Regular Account
$
2,500

 
$
50

Retirement Account or Custodial Account under the Uniform Gifts/Transfers to Minors Act
$
1,000

 
$
50

Investments through the Automatic Investment Plan
$
100

 
$
50

 
Institutional Class
 
Initial
Investment
 
Additional
Investment
Regular Account
$
500,000

 
$
50

 
Fund shares may be purchased and sold on days that the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading. Class Y shares are available only through financial intermediaries who have appropriate selling agreements in place with Touchstone Securities. Institutional Class shares are available through Touchstone Securities or your financial intermediary. Shares may be purchased or sold by writing to Touchstone Securities at P.O. Box 9878, Providence, Rhode Island 02940, calling 1.800.543.0407, or visiting the Touchstone Funds’ website: TouchstoneInvestments.com. You may only sell shares over the telephone or via the Internet if the value of the shares sold is less than or equal to $100,000. Shares held in IRAs and qualified retirement plans cannot be sold via the Internet. If your shares are held by a processing organization or financial intermediary you will need to follow its purchase and redemption procedures. For more information about buying and selling shares, see the section “Investing with Touchstone” of the Fund’s prospectus or call 1.800.543.0407.
 
Tax Information
 
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains except when shares are held through a tax-advantaged account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Withdrawals from a tax-advantaged account, however, may be taxable.
 
Financial Intermediary Compensation
 
If you purchase shares in the Fund through a broker-dealer or 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 influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment.  Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.









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