Securian Funds Trust

04/26/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/26/2024 08:30

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company - Form 497K

497K
SFT T. Rowe Price Value Fund

a Series of Securian Funds Trust
Summary Prospectus | May 1, 2024
This summary prospectus is designed to provide investors with key Fund information in a clear and concise format. Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's complete prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's prospectus and other information about the Fund online at www.securianfunds.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (844) 208-2412 or by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]. If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the prospectus and other information will also be available from your financial intermediary. The Fund's prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated May 1, 2024, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus and may be obtained free of charge, at the website, phone number or e-mail address noted above.
Investment Objective
The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in common stocks believed to be undervalued. Income is a secondary objective.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. The table does not reflect charges assessed in connection with the variable life policies or variable annuity contracts, or qualified plans, that invest in the Fund. If these charges were included, the expenses shown in the table below would be higher.
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Not Applicable
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.57
%
Distribution (12b-1) Fees
0.25
%
Other Expenses
0.22
%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.04
%
Expense Example. This example is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other Funds.
The example assumes an investment of $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then a redemption of all shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The example does not reflect the other fees and expenses related to a variable life insurance policy, variable annuity contract or qualified plan that invests in the Fund. If these other fees and expenses were included, the expenses shown in the example below would be higher. Although actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, costs would be:
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
$106
$331
$574
$1,271
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. 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 61.8% of the average value of its portfolio.
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Principal Investment Strategies
At least 65% of the Fund's total assets will normally be invested in common stocks the Fund's investment sub-adviser, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (T. Rowe Price), regards as undervalued. Holdings are expected to consist primarily of large-cap stocks, but may also include stocks of mid-cap and small-cap companies.
In taking a value added approach to investment selection, T. Rowe Price's in-house research team seeks to identify companies that appear to be undervalued by various measures, and may be temporarily out of favor, but have good prospects for capital appreciation. In selecting investments, T. Rowe Price generally looks for one or more of the following:
• Low price/earnings, price/book value, price/sales, or price/cash flow ratios relative to the broader equity market, a company's peers, or a company's own historical norm;
• Low stock price relative to a company's underlying asset values or intrinsic value;
• Companies that may benefit from restructuring activity; and/or
• A sound balance sheet and other positive financial characteristics.
While most assets will typically be invested in U.S. common stocks, the Fund may invest in foreign stocks in keeping with the Fund's objectives. The fund may at times invest significantly in certain sectors.
Principal Risks
An investment in the Fund may result in the loss of money, and may be subject to various risks, which may be even greater during periods of market disruption or volatility, including the following types of principal risks:
▲Value Investing Risk - The Fund's value approach to investing could cause it to underperform other stock funds that employ a different investment style. The intrinsic value of a stock with value characteristics may not be fully recognized by the market for a long time or a stock judged to be undervalued may be appropriately priced at a low level. Value stocks may fail to appreciate for long periods and may never reach what the adviser or sub-adviser believes are their full market values.
▲Large-Cap Stocks Risk - Securities issued by large-cap companies tend to be less volatile than securities issued by smaller companies. However, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies, especially during strong economic periods, and may be unable to respond as quickly to competitive challenges.
▲Market Conditions Risk - The value of the Fund's investments may decrease, sometimes rapidly or unexpectedly, due to factors affecting an issuer held by the Fund, particular industries, or the overall securities markets. A variety of factors can increase the volatility of the Fund's holdings and markets generally, including political or regulatory developments, recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, war or acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and outbreaks of infectious illnesses or other widespread public health issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and related governmental and public responses. Certain events may cause instability across global markets, including reduced liquidity and disruptions in trading markets, while some events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors, and industries more significantly than others. Government intervention in markets may impact interest rates, market volatility, and security pricing. These adverse developments may cause broad declines in market value due to short-term market movements or for significantly longer periods during more prolonged market downturns.
▲Risk of Stock Investing - the risk that stocks generally fluctuate in value more than bonds and may decline significantly over short time periods. There is a chance that stock prices overall will decline because stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising prices and falling prices. The value of a stock in which the Fund invests may decline due to general weakness in the stock market or because of factors that affect a company or a particular industry.
▲Sector Risk - At times, the Fund may have a significant portion of its assets invested in securities of issuers conducting business in a broadly related group of industries within the same economic sector. Issuers in the same economic sector may be similarly affected by economic or market events, making the Fund more vulnerable to unfavorable developments in that economic sector than funds that invest more broadly. Investments in the financials sector are susceptible to adverse developments relating to regulatory changes, interest rate movements, the availability of capital and cost to borrow, and the rate of debt defaults.
▲Foreign Securities Risk - Investments in the securities of non-U.S. issuers may be adversely affected by local, political, social, and economic conditions overseas, greater volatility, reduced liquidity, or decreases in foreign currency values
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relative to the U.S. dollar. The risks of investing outside the U.S. are heightened for any investments in emerging markets, which are susceptible to greater volatility than investments in developed markets.
▲Management Risk - the risk that the Fund's performance is primarily dependent on the investment adviser's or investment sub-adviser's skill in evaluating and managing the Fund's holdings. There can be no guarantee that its decisions will produce the desired results, and the Fund may not perform as well as other similar mutual funds.
▲Active Management Risk - The Fund's overall investment program and holdings selected by the Fund's investment adviser may underperform the broad markets, relevant indices, or other funds with similar objectives and investment strategies.
▲Portfolio Turnover Risk - High portfolio turnover may adversely affect the Fund's performance and increase transaction costs, which could increase the Fund's expenses. High portfolio turnover may also result in the distribution of higher capital gains when compared to a fund with less active trading policies, which could have an adverse tax impact if the Fund's shares are held in a taxable account.
Performance
The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year and how the Fund's average annual returns over time compare to the return of a broad based index. The chart and table do not reflect the charges and other expenses associated with the variable life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts, or qualified plans which invest in the Fund. If such charges and expenses were included, the returns shown below would be lower. The past performance of the Fund does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future .
Calendar Year Total Returns
Best Quarter
4Q '20 | 18.50%
Worst Quarter
1Q '20 | -25.39%
Average Annual Total Return
(for periods ending December 31, 2023)
1 Year
5 Years
Inception
SFT T. Rowe Price Value Fund
(inception 5/1/14)
11.75
%
12.09
%
8.62
%
Russell 1000 Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees,
expenses or taxes)
11.46
%
10.91
%
8.26
%
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Management
The Fund is advised by Securian Asset Management, Inc. and sub-advised by T. Rowe Price. The following individual serves as the Fund's primary portfolio manager:
Name and Title
Primary Manager Since
Ryan S. Hedrick, CFA
Vice President and Portfolio Manager,
T. Rowe Price
January 1, 2023
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Fund shares are sold only to participating life insurance company separate accounts and qualified plans (financial intermediaries) and are not offered directly to the public. Purchases and sales of Fund shares may be effected only through a participating life insurance company or qualified plan. Please refer to the appropriate separate account prospectus or plan documents for detail.
Taxes
For information concerning the tax consequences to purchasers of variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies issued by Minnesota Life Insurance Company (Minnesota Life) or other participating life insurance companies, please see the appropriate prospectus for those contracts.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
When you purchase Fund shares through a life insurance company in connection with its variable annuity contracts or variable life insurance policies, or through another financial intermediary such as a broker-dealer that sells variable annuity contracts or variable life insurance policies, the Fund or 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 life insurance company or broker-dealer to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's web site for more information.
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