Brighthouse Funds Trust I

04/26/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/26/2024 10:22

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company - Form 497K

CBRE Global Real Estate
BRIGHTHOUSE FUNDS TRUST I
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
April 29, 2024
CBRE Global Real Estate Portfolio
Class A, Class B and Class E Shares
Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio's Prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its
risks. You can find the Portfolio's Prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Portfolio (including the
documents listed below) online at www.brighthousefinancial.com/products/fund-resources. You can also get this information at no
cost by calling 1-800-882-1292 or by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]. The Portfolio's Prospectus and
Statement of Additional Information, both dated April 29, 2024, as supplemented from time to time, and the Portfolio's financial
statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, including the notes to the financial statements, the financial highlights and the
report of the Portfolio's independent registered public accounting firm, all of which are included in the Annual Report of the
Portfolio, dated December 31, 2023, are all incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. This Summary Prospectus is
intended for individuals who have purchased Contracts (as defined below) from insurance companies, including insurance
companies affiliated with Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC, and is not intended for use by other investors.
Investment Objective
Total return through investment in real estate securities, emphasizing both capital appreciation and current income.
Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio
The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The table and the Example below do not reflect the fees, expenses or withdrawal charges imposed by your variable life insurance policy or variable annuity contract (the "Contract"). If Contract expenses were reflected, the fees and expenses in the table and Example would be higher. See the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees, expenses and charges.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)-
None
Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (expenses
that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of
your investment)
Class A
Class B
Class E
Management Fee
0.64%
0.64%
0.64%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1)
Fees
None
0.25%
0.15%
Other Expenses
0.05%
0.05%
0.05%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating
Expenses
0.69%
0.94%
0.84%
Fee Waiver1
(0.04%
)
(0.04%
)
(0.04%
)
Net Operating Expenses
0.65%
0.90%
0.80%
1
Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC has contractually agreed, for the period May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025, to reduce the Management Fee for each class of the Portfolio. This arrangement may be modified or discontinued prior to April 30, 2025, only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Portfolio.
Example
The following Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio 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, that the Portfolio's operating expenses remain the same, and that all fee waivers for the Portfolio will expire after one year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
$66
$217
$380
$855
Class B
$92
$296
$516
$1,151
Class E
$82
$264
$462
$1,033
Portfolio Turnover
The Portfolio 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. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio's performance.
During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio's portfolio turnover rate was 84% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets LLC ("CBRE IM" or "Subadviser"), subadviser to the Portfolio, invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Portfolio's net assets in a portfolio of equity securities of companies that are principally engaged in the real estate industry.
In selecting investments for the Portfolio, CBRE IM will select companies that derive their intrinsic value from the ownership, operation, development, construction, financing, management or sale of commercial, industrial or residential real estate or similar activities. These companies include real estate investment
trusts and similarly situated real estate companies outside the U.S. The Portfolio will have investments located in a number of different countries, including the U.S. The Portfolio may invest up to 90% of its assets in foreign securities, including a maximum of 35% in emerging markets. The Portfolio may invest in companies of any market capitalization.
CBRE IM uses a multi-step investment process for constructing the Portfolio's investment portfolio that combines top-down region and sector allocation with bottom-up individual stock selection. First, CBRE IM selects sectors and geographic regions in which to invest, and determines the degree of representation of such sectors and regions, through a systematic evaluation of public and private property market trends and conditions. Second, CBRE IM uses proprietary analytical techniques to conduct fundamental company analysis, which provides a framework for security selection. This approach incorporates quantitative and qualitative factors organized under the factor categories of growth, value, quality and market, that aid in evaluating performance characteristics of individual securities independently and relative to each other. CBRE IM will also typically employ third-party portfolio optimization tools to help in its evaluation of the Portfolio's current holdings and its identification of potential investments for the Portfolio.
Principal Risks
As with all mutual funds, there is no guarantee that the Portfolio will achieve its investment objective. You could lose money by investing in the Portfolio. An investment in the Portfolio through a Contract is not a deposit or obligation of, or guaranteed by, any bank, and is not federally insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.
The value of your investment in the Portfolio may be affected by one or more of the following risks, which are described in more detail in "Principal Risks of Investing in the Portfolio" in the Prospectus. The significance of any specific risk to an investment in the Portfolio will vary over time, depending on the composition of the Portfolio, market conditions, and other factors. You should read all of the risk information presented below carefully, because any one or more of these risks could cause the Portfolio's return, the price of the Portfolio's shares or the Portfolio's yield to fluctuate.
Market Risk.The Portfolio's share price can fall because of, among other things, a decline in the market as a whole, deterioration in the prospects for a particular industry or company, changes in general economic conditions, such as prevailing interest rates or investor sentiment, or other factors including terrorism, war, natural disasters and the spread of infectious illness including epidemics or pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Significant disruptions to the financial markets could adversely affect the liquidity and volatility of securities held by the Portfolio.
Real Estate Investment Risk.Investments in real estate investment trusts and other real estate related securities may be adversely impacted by the performance of the real estate market generally or that of a particular sub-sector or geographic region.
Foreign Investment Risk.Investments in foreign securities, whether direct or indirect, tend to be more volatile and less liquid than investments in U.S. securities because, among other things, they involve risks relating to political, social, economic and other developments abroad, as well as risks resulting from differences between the regulations and reporting standards and practices to which U.S. and foreign issuers are subject. To the extent foreign securities are denominated in foreign currencies, their values may be adversely affected by changes in currency exchange rates.
Emerging Markets Risk. In addition to all of the risks of investing in foreign developed markets, emerging market securities involve risks attendant to less mature and stable governments and economies, lower trading volume, trading suspension, security price volatility, proceeds repatriation restrictions, withholding and other taxes, some of which may be confiscatory, inflation, deflation, currency devaluation and adverse government regulations of industries or markets. As a result of these risks, the prices of emerging market securities tend to be more volatile than the securities of issuers located in developed markets.
Investment Style Risk.Different investment styles such as growth or value tend to shift in and out of favor, depending on market and economic conditions as well as investor sentiment. The Portfolio may outperform or underperform other funds that employ a different investment style.
Concentration Risk.Substantial investments in a relatively small number of securities or issuers, or a particular market, industry, group of industries, country, region, group of countries, asset class or sector make the Portfolio's performance more susceptible to any single economic, market, political or regulatory occurrence affecting those particular securities or issuers or that particular market, industry, group of industries, country, region, group of countries, asset class or sector than a portfolio that invests more broadly.
Model and Data Risk.When the quantitative models ("Models") and information and data ("Data") used in managing the Portfolio prove to be incorrect or incomplete, any investment decisions made in reliance on the Models and Data may not produce the desired results and the Portfolio may realize losses. Models may cause the Portfolio to underperform other investment strategies and may not perform as intended in volatile markets. In addition, any hedging based on faulty Models and Data may prove to be unsuccessful. Furthermore, the success of Models that are predictive in nature is dependent largely on the accuracy and reliability of the supplied historical data. All Models are susceptible to input errors which may cause the resulting information to be incorrect.
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Past Performance
The information below provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio's performance from year to year and how the Portfolio's average annual returns over time compare with those of a broad-based securities market index. Note that the results in the bar chart and table do not include the effect of Contract charges. If these Contract charges had been included, performance would have been lower. As with all mutual funds, past returns are not a prediction of future returns.
Year-by-Year Total Return for Class A Shares as of
December 31 of Each Year
Highest Quarter
Q4 2023
17.63%
Lowest Quarter
Q1 2020
-26.99%
Average Annual Total Return as of December 31, 2023
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Class A
12.87%
6.40%
4.65%
Class B
12.73%
6.15%
4.38%
Class E
12.79%
6.26%
4.49%
FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed Index
(reflects no deduction for mutual fund fees
or expenses)
9.67%
2.81%
3.57%
Management
Adviser. Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC ("BIA"), is the Portfolio's investment adviser.
Subadviser. CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets LLC is the subadviser to the Portfolio.
Portfolio Managers.Joseph P. Smith, Chief Investment Officer - Listed Real Assets, has managed the Portfolio since 2008. Christopher S. Reich, Global Portfolio Manager and Head of Quantitative Investment Research, has managed the Portfolio since 2020. Kenneth S. Weinberg, Chief Investment Officer - Listed Real Estate, has managed the Portfolio since 2022.
Purchase and Sale of Portfolio Shares
Shares of the Portfolio are only sold to separate accounts of insurance companies, including insurance companies affiliated with BIA, to fund Contracts. For information regarding the purchase and sale of the Portfolio's shares, please see the prospectus for the relevant Contract.
Tax Information
For information regarding the tax consequences of Contract ownership, please see the prospectus for the relevant Contract.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial
Intermediaries
The Portfolio is not sold directly to the general public but instead is offered as an underlying investment option for Contracts issued by insurance companies, including insurance companies that are affiliated with the Portfolio and BIA. The Portfolio and its related companies, including BIA, may make payments to the sponsoring insurance companies (or their affiliates) for distribution and/or other services, and the insurance companies may benefit more from offering the Portfolio as an investment option in the Contracts than offering other portfolios. The benefits to the insurance companies of offering the Portfolio over other portfolios and these payments may be factors that the insurance companies consider in including the Portfolio as an underlying investment option in the Contracts and may create a conflict of interest. The prospectus for your Contract contains additional information about these payments.
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