497K 1 d687614d497k.htm STATE FARM MUNICIPAL BOND FUND State Farm Municipal Bond Fund

State Farm

Associates’ Funds Trust—Municipal Bond Fund

  

Summary Prospectus

April 1, 2014

Ticker: SFBDX

(Offered to the Agents and Employees of the State Farm Insurance Companies and their families)

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, which contain more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus, statement of additional information and other information about the fund online at www.statefarm.com/AssocSumProspectus/aProspectus.asp. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-447-0740 or by sending an email request to mutualfunds@statefarm.com. The current prospectus and statement of additional information, dated April 1, 2014, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus.

Investment Objective:    The State Farm Associates’ Funds Trust Municipal Bond Fund (the “Fund” or the “Municipal Bond Fund”) seeks as high a rate of income exempt from federal income taxes as is consistent with prudent investment management.

What are the costs of investing in the Fund?

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment)

 

Maximum sales charge

     None   

Redemption fee

     None   

Exchange fee

     None   

Maximum account fee

     None

 

* For certain types of accounts, if your account balance falls below $5,000 at the close of business on the second business day of the last month in a calendar quarter (i.e., the second business day of March, June, September and December), the account will be charged an Account Fee of $10.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage

of the value of your investment)

 

Management fees

     0.11

Other Expenses

     0.05

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

     0.16

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 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 operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

 

After
1 year
   After
3 years
   After
5 years
   After
10 years

$16

   $52    $90    $205

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 example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 11% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund normally invests so that either (1) at least 80% of the Fund’s net investment income is exempt from regular federal income tax or (2) at least 80% of the Fund’s net assets are invested in securities that produce income exempt from regular federal income tax.

The Fund invests primarily in a diversified selection of municipal bonds (for example, general obligation bonds of a state or bonds financing a specific project) with maturities of one to seventeen years, although from time to time State Farm Investment Management Corp. (the “Manager”), investment adviser to the Fund, may purchase issues with longer maturities. A majority of the Fund’s investments are in issues with maturities longer than five years. Dividends from the Fund largely will be exempt from federal income tax and, at the present time, the Fund does not intend to purchase municipal obligations that are subject to federal alternative minimum tax unless these bonds provide greater potential for return on an after-tax basis than other alternatives.

The Fund normally invests at least 70% of its total assets in municipal bonds rated A or better by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”), meaning that up to 30% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in medium and lower-quality bonds.

The Manager frequently will hold individual municipal bonds within the Fund for a long period of time, possibly until the bond matures or until it is called. The Manager may sell individual securities for several reasons including: price target of the security has been achieved, fundamental deterioration of municipality

 

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prospects, or better alternatives exist. Securities may also be sold based upon tax considerations, liquidity needs or other portfolio management considerations.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The chief risks of investing in the Fund are interest rate risk, credit risk, inflation risk, municipal bond risk and management risk, and you can lose money by investing in the Fund.

Interest rate risk is the risk that the Fund’s investments will decline in value because of changes in interest rates. Generally, debt securities decrease in value when interest rates rise and increase in value when interest rates fall.

Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a bond may become unable to meet its obligation to pay interest on the bond, or repay principal. The Fund tries to limit credit risk by investing most of its assets in high grade municipal bonds, but may invest up to 30% of its total assets in medium and lower-quality bonds.

Inflation risk is the risk that the value of assets or income from an investment will be worth less in the future as inflation decreases the value of money.

Municipal Bond risk is the risk that a municipal bond issuer fails to make principal or interest payments when due to the Fund, or that the credit quality of the issuer falls. Municipal securities can be significantly affected by political changes as well as uncertainties related to taxation, legislative changes or the rights of municipal security holders. Because many municipal securities are issued to finance similar projects (for example, education, healthcare or transportation), conditions in those sectors can affect the overall municipal market.

Management risk is the risk the Manager’s assessment of the securities to be purchased or sold by the Fund may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance, even in a rising market.

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

Investment Results

The following bar chart and table illustrate certain risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows the changes in the Fund’s returns year by year. The table compares the Fund’s average annual total returns for the periods listed to a broad-based market index. This information is intended to help you assess the variability of Fund returns over the periods listed (and consequently, the potential rewards and risks of a Fund investment). The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Updated performance information for the Municipal Bond Fund is available at http://www.statefarm.com/FFS/associate-munibond.pdf or by calling 1-800-447-0740.

 

LOGO

The Fund’s best and worst quarters during the last 10 years were:

Best quarter: 4.51%,

during the fourth quarter of 2008.

Worst quarter: -3.18%,

during the fourth quarter of 2010.

The following table shows certain Average Annual Total Returns on an investment in the Fund compared to a market index for the 1-, 5- and 10-year periods ended December 31, 2013. The after-tax returns are intended to show the impact of assumed federal income taxes on an investment in the Fund. “Return After Taxes on Distributions” shows the effect of taxable distributions, but assumes that you still hold Fund shares at the end of the period and that you do not have any taxable gain or loss on the disposition of your Fund shares. “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” shows the effect of both taxable distributions and any taxable gain or loss that you would realize if you purchased Fund shares at the beginning of the specified period and sold Fund shares at the end of the specified period. 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 after-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax deferred arrangements, such as individual retirement accounts. In some instances the “Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares” may be greater than the “Return Before Taxes” because the investor is assumed to be able to use the capital loss on the sale of the Fund shares to offset other taxable gains.

 

Average Annual Total Returns

(For the periods ended December 31, 2013)

 

Municipal Bond Fund    1 Year      5 Year      10 Year  

Return Before Taxes

     -1.54      4.62      4.05

Return After Taxes on Distributions

     -1.56      4.59      4.03

Return After Taxes on Distribution & Sale of Fund Shares

     0.64      4.50      4.08

Barclays 7-year Municipal Bond Index (reflects no deduction for expenses or taxes)

     -0.97      5.06      4.37

 

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Fund Management

The Manager serves as investment adviser to the Fund and uses individual portfolio managers to manage the Fund’s investments.

 

Portfolio Manager

 

Length of
Portfolio Manager
Service to
Municipal Bond
Fund

 

Primary Title

Joe Young

  3 years   Vice President—State Farm Investment Management Corp.; Vice President—Fixed Income, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Robert Reardon

  16 years   Assistant Vice President—State Farm Investment Management Corp.; Senior Investment Officer—Fixed Income, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

Minimum Investments:

 

To open an account by check

   $250 (per fund)

To open an account by payroll deduction

   $50 (per fund)

Subsequent investments by check, automated clearing house (ACH) or automatic investing

   $50 (per fund)

Subsequent investment by payroll deduction

   $50 (per fund)

On any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for regular trading, you may sell (redeem) your shares by sending a written request to State Farm Mutual Funds, P.O. Box 219548, Kansas City, Missouri 64121-9548; telephoning 1-800-447-0740, if you have telephone redemption privileges; faxing your request to (816) 471-4832; or by visiting www.statefarm.com, and following the instructions presented on the screen.

Tax Information

The Fund intends to make distributions that will largely be exempt from regular federal income tax, because the Municipal Bond Fund invests primarily in municipal bonds. The dividends from the Municipal Bond Fund may be subject to state and local taxes. The Municipal Bond Fund will provide you annually with state-by-state sources of its income.

 

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