Prices and Performance: NEA DirectInvest®

All Prices and Performance

The performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investing in mutual funds involves risk. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

Neither Security Benefit Corporation nor its affiliates are fiduciaries. This information is general in nature and intended for use with the general public. For additional information, including any specific advice or recommendations, please visit with your financial professional.

You should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the mutual funds carefully before investing. You may obtain prospectuses or summary prospectuses (if available) that contain this and other information about the mutual funds by calling our Service Center at 800.888.2461. You should read the prospectuses or summary prospectuses (if available) carefully before investing. Investing in mutual funds involves risk and there is no guarantee of investment results.

Waiver Type C - The difference between the gross expense ratio and the net expense ratio represents a contractual waiver of fees. A contractual waiver is generally provided for a specified period of time.

Waiver Type V - The difference between the gross expense ratio and the net expense ratio represents a voluntary waiver of fees. Unlike a contractual waiver, a voluntary waiver is not provided for a specified period of time and may end without notice. Refer to the fund's prospectus for details about this voluntary waiver.

The average annual total return figures assume a one-time investment of $1,000 at the beginning of each period. All dividends are assumed to be reinvested. NAV performance returns do not reflect deduction of any front-end sales loads or contingent deferred sales loads that may be imposed by the funds. Such loads are waived by the funds for purchases made through this Program. If you purchase these funds outside of this Program, you may be subject to these charges. If the sales loads were reflected in the accompanying performance data, it would reduce the quoted performance. In addition, the NAV performance numbers do not reflect deduction of any Trust/Custodial Account charges, which would reduce the quoted performance. Because this performance information does not reflect deduction of Trust/Custodial Account charges, the quoted performance is higher than the performance experienced by your Trust/Custodial Account.

Triple-digit or high double-digit performance is attributable, in part, to unusually favorable market conditions and may not be repeated or consistently achieved in the future. Recent market volatility may affect performance so that current performance may be lower. Performance, especially for short time periods, should not be the sole factor in making your investment decisions.

Administration Fee (for all applicable options) - $35 a year for accounts less that $50,000. No administration fee for accounts over $50,000.

The NEA Valuebuilder DirectInvest 403(b)(7) is a Custodial Account under §403(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Administrative, Marketing, and Support Service Payments
Security Distributors (and its affiliates) may receive payments from the underlying funds, their advisers, sub-advisers, and distributors, or affiliates thereof, in consideration for distribution, administrative, marketing, and other services Security Distributors (or its affiliates) provides. Security Distributors negotiates these payments, which may differ by underlying fund (sometimes substantially), and the amounts Security Distributors (or its affiliates) receive may be significant. Making these payments may provide an adviser, sub-adviser, or distributor (or affiliate thereof) with increased access to the Security Distributors and its affiliates. Security Distributors and its affiliates anticipate they will receive payments from the underlying funds, their advisers, sub-advisers, and distributors, or affiliates thereof in the form of 12b-1 fees, investor services fees and administrative payments that range in total from 0.00% to a maximum of 0.65% of the average net assets of the account invested in the underlying fund on an annual basis. This does not include the arrangements with certain of the investment advisers, sub-advisers, or distributors (or affiliates thereof) of certain of the Underlying Funds in which the payment is not based on the average net assets of the accounts invested in the underlying fund.

Relationship Information
The NEA Valuebuilder Program provides investment products (the “NEA Valuebuilder products”) in connection with retirement plans sponsored by school districts and other employers of NEA members and individual retirement accounts established by NEA members. Security Distributors and certain of its affiliates (collectively “Security Benefit”) make the NEA Valuebuilder products available under this program pursuant to an agreement with NEA’s wholly-owned subsidiary, NEA’s Member Benefits Corporation (“MBC”). Security Benefit has the exclusive right to offer the NEA Valuebuilder products under the program, and MBC generally may not enter into arrangements with other providers of similar investment programs or otherwise promote to NEA members or their employers any investment products that compete with the NEA Valuebuilder products. MBC promotes the program to NEA members and their employers and provides certain services in connection with the program. Security Benefit pays an annual fee to MBC based in part on the average assets invested in the NEA Valuebuilder products under the agreement. You may wish to take into account this agreement and arrangement, including any fees paid, when considering and evaluating any communications relating to the NEA Valuebuilder products. NEA and MBC are not affiliated with Security Benefit. Neither NEA nor MBC is a registered broker/dealer. All securities brokerage services are performed exclusively by your sales representative’s broker/dealer and not by NEA or MBC.

Morningstar Rating^TM

Often simply called the Star Rating, the Morningstar Rating brings performance (returns) and risk together into one evaluation (the Star Rating does not take into account sales loads). To determine a fund's star rating for a given time period (three, five, or ten years), the fund's risk-adjusted return is plotted on a bell curve: If the fund scores in the top 10% of its category, it receives 5 stars (Highest); if it falls in the next 22.5% it receives 4 stars (Above Average); a place in the middle 35% earns 3 stars (Average); those lower still, in the next 22.5%, receive 2 stars (Below Average); and the bottom 10% get only 1 star (Lowest). The Overall Morningstar Rating is a weighted average of the available three-, five-, and ten-year ratings.

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Morningstar measures risk adjusted returns. The overall rating is a weighted average based on a fund's 3, 5, and 10 year star rating.

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