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Supplement dated May 1, 2015
to the Prospectus of the following Fund:
Fund Prospectus Dated
Wanger Advisors Trust  
 Wanger Select 05/01/2015
Effective May 1, 2015, the following changes are made to the Fund’s prospectus:
The Annual Fund Operating Expenses table under the caption “Fees and Expenses of the Fund" in the “Summary of the Fund" section is hereby superseded and replaced with the following:
    
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management fees 0.80%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees 0.00%
Other expenses 0.13%
Total annual Fund operating expenses 0.93%
Less: Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements(a) (0.20%)
Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements 0.73%
(a) Effective May 1, 2015, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC (the Investment Manager) has contractually agreed to waive 0.20% of the advisory fee otherwise payable to it by the Fund through April 30, 2016. This arrangement may only be modified or amended with approval from all parties to the arrangement, including the Fund and the Investment Manager.
The expense example table under the caption “Fees and Expenses of the Fund – Example”, and the paragraph that immediately precedes it, in the “Summary of the Fund” section is hereby superseded and replaced with the following:
Since the waivers and/or reimbursements shown in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses table above expire as indicated in the preceding table, they are only reflected in the 1 year example and the first year of the other examples. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on the assumptions listed above, your costs would be:
    
  1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years
Wanger Select (whether or not shares are redeemed) $75 $276 $495 $1,125