Touchstone Funds Group Trust

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Summary Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497K)

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Summary Prospectus
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Fund
January 28, 2022

Class Y Ticker: TYBAX Institutional Class Ticker: TIABX

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated January 28, 2022, as amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Fund's prospectus and other information about the Fund, go to TouchstoneInvestments.com/Resources, call 1.800.543.0407, or ask any financial advisor, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the Fund.

TOUCHSTONE ANTI-BENCHMARK® INTERNATIONAL CORE EQUITY FUND SUMMARY
The Fund's Investment Goal
The Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Fund (the "Fund") seeks capital appreciation.
The Fund's Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. More information is available from your financial professional and in the section titled "Choosing a Class of Shares" in the Fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") on pages 102 and 108, respectively.
Class Y Institutional
Class
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Wire Redemption Fee Up to $15 Up to $15
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.45% 0.45%
Other Expenses 2.95% 0.52%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
3.40% 0.97%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(1)
(2.71)% (0.38)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(1)
0.69% 0.59%
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(1)Touchstone Advisors, Inc. (the "Advisor" or "Touchstone Advisors") and Touchstone Funds Group Trust (the "Trust") have entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement whereby Touchstone Advisors will waive a portion of its fees or reimburse certain Fund expenses (excluding dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales; interest; taxes; brokerage commissions and other transaction costs; portfolio transaction and investment related expenses, including expenses associated with the Fund's liquidity providers; other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; the cost of "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses," if any; and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business) in order to limit annual Fund operating expenses to 0.69% and 0.59% of average daily net assets for Class Y and Institutional Class shares, respectively. This contractual expense limitation is effective through January 29, 2023, but can be terminated by a vote of the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board") if it deems the termination to be beneficial to the Fund's shareholders. The terms of the contractual expense limitation agreement provide that Touchstone Advisors is entitled to recoup, subject to approval by the Board, such amounts waived or reimbursed for a period of up to three years from the date on which Touchstone Advisors reduced its compensation or assumed expenses for the Fund. The Fund will make repayments to the Advisor only if such repayment does not cause the annual fund operating expenses (after the repayment is taken into account) to exceed both (1) the expense cap in place when such amounts were waived or reimbursed and (2) the Fund's current expense limitation.


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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 that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then, except as indicated, 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 Fund's operating expenses remain the same and that all fee waivers or expense limits for the Fund will expire after one year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Class Y Institutional Class
1 Year $ 70 $ 60
3 Years $ 791 $ 271
5 Years $ 1,535 $ 499
10 Years $ 3,502 $ 1,155

Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as brokerage 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 total 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 62% of the average value of its portfolio.
The Fund's Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of non-U.S. issuers. The Fund's 80% policy is a non-fundamental investment policy that can be changed by the Fund upon 60 days' prior notice to shareholders. The Fund pursues its objective by seeking to track the net total return, before fees and expenses, of the TOBAM Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Index (the "Index"). The Index is a proprietary rules-based index created by the Fund's sub-advisor, TOBAM S.A.S. ("TOBAM"), which is designed to create a more diversified portfolio of equity securities of non-U.S. issuers relative to traditional market capitalization weighted benchmarks. The Fund intends to fully replicate the Index to achieve its investment objective, meaning the Fund will generally invest in all of the component securities of the Index in the same approximate proportions as the Index.

The equity securities that comprise the Index primarily include common and preferred stock of non-U.S. companies that trade on foreign exchanges. TOBAM may replace the common or preferred stock of a foreign issuer with a depositary receipt when it deems the depositary receipt to be more liquid than the corresponding stock. In determining whether a company is foreign, TOBAM primarily looks to both the country of incorporation and the main listing country. If both of these countries are non-U.S., the company is considered non-U.S. for purposes of inclusion in the Index. The Index is comprised of securities of issuers located in developed markets. TOBAM considers the following countries to be developed markets for these purposes: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The Index is based on TOBAM's proprietary quantitative model, which selects and weights companies to maximize diversification. TOBAM quantitatively selects securities, subject to certain constraints, that maximize the portfolio's patented Diversification Ratio®, a proprietary mathematical metric based on the volatility of each Index constituent and its correlation to the other Index constituents. Such constraints include a minimum and maximum weight for any given stock, as well as geographic and country constraints.
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TOBAM's Anti-Benchmark® strategy seeks to avoid the concentration risk that exists in traditional market capitalization-weighted indices through its quantitative approach to diversification.

The Index typically is reconstituted (i.e., Index constituents are added or deleted and weights are reset) monthly. The Fund is rebalanced following the same schedule as the Index. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading as part of its principal investment strategies.
The Fund's Principal Risks
The Fund's share price will fluctuate. You could lose money on your investment in the Fund and the Fund could also return less than other investments. As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment goal. You can find more information about the Fund's investments and risks under the "Principal Investment Strategies and Risks" section of the Fund's prospectus. The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below.
Equity Securities Risk:The Fund is subject to the risk that stock prices will fall over short or extended periods of time. Individual companies may report poor results or be negatively affected by industry and/or economic trends and developments, or as a result of irregular and/or unexpected trading activity among retail investors. The prices of securities issued by these companies may decline in response to such developments, which could result in a decline in the value of the Fund's shares.

•Preferred Stock Risk: In the event an issuer is liquidated or declares bankruptcy, the claims of owners of bonds take precedence over the claims of those who own preferred and common stock. If interest rates rise, the fixed dividend on preferred stocks may be less attractive, causing the price of preferred stocks to decline.

Foreign Securities Risk: Investing in foreign securities poses additional risks since political and economic events unique in a country or region will affect those markets and their issuers, while such events may not necessarily affect the U.S. economy or issuers located in the United States. In addition, investments in foreign securities are generally denominated in foreign currency. As a result, changes in the value of those currencies compared to the U.S. dollar may affect (positively or negatively) the value of the Fund's investments. There are also risks associated with foreign accounting standards, government regulation, market information, and clearance and settlement procedures. Foreign markets may be less liquid and more volatile than U.S. markets and offer less protection to investors.

•Depositary Receipts Risk: Foreign receipts, which include American Depositary Receipts, Global Depositary Receipts, and European Depositary Receipts, are securities that evidence ownership interests in a security or a pool of securities issued by a foreign issuer. The risks of depositary receipts include many risks associated with investing directly in foreign securities.

Management Risk:In managing the Fund's portfolio, the Advisor engages one or more sub-advisors to make investment decisions for a portion of or the entire portfolio. There is a risk that the Advisor may be unable to identify and retain sub-advisors who achieve superior investment returns relative to other similar sub-advisors.

Economic and Market Events Risk: Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times, and for varying periods of time, result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact the Fund's performance and cause the Fund to experience illiquidity, shareholder redemptions, or other potentially adverse effects. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could negatively affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses if interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate.
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Passive Investment Risk: As the Fund is intended to track the Index, portfolio managers do not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including during declining markets. As a result, the Fund's performance may be adversely affected by a general decline in the market segments relating to its Index.

Quantitative Strategy Risk: TOBAM uses proprietary statistical analyses and models to construct the Index, which the Fund seeks to track. A securities portfolio selected using TOBAM's proprietary models can perform differently than the market as a whole as a result of the correlation factors used in the analysis to construct the models, the weight placed on each factor, and changes in the factors' historical trends. As a result, the Fund may be more or less exposed to a risk factor than its individual holdings. Quantitative models are subject to technical issues including programming and data inaccuracies, are based on assumptions, and rely on data that is subject to limitations (e.g., inaccuracies, staleness), any of which could adversely affect their effectiveness or predictive value.

Tracking Error Risk: As with all index funds, the performance of the Fund and its Index may differ from each other for a variety of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs operating expenses and portfolio transaction costs not incurred by the Index.

Portfolio Turnover Risk: Frequent and active trading may result in greater expenses to the Fund, which may lower the Fund's performance and may result in the realization of substantial capital gains, including net short-term capital gains. As a result, high portfolio turnover may reduce the Fund's returns.
The Fund's Performance
The bar chart and performance table below illustrate some indication of the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from calendar year to calendar year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns for one year and since inception compare with the MSCI EAFE Index. Past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. More recent performance information is available at no cost by visiting TouchstoneInvestments.com or by calling 1.800.543.0407.

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Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Fund - Class Y Shares Total Returns as of December 31

Best Quarter: Second Quarter 2020 15.41% Worst Quarter: First Quarter 2020 (16.84)%

After-tax returns are calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on a given distribution reinvestment date and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns may differ from those shown and depend on your tax situation. The after-tax returns do not apply to shares held in an individual retirement account ("IRA"), 401(k), or other tax-advantaged account. The after-tax returns shown in the table are for Class Y shares only. The after-tax returns for other classes of shares offered by the Fund will differ from the Class Y shares' after-tax returns. The Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be greater than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss on the sale of fund shares.

Average Annual Total Returns
For the periods ended December 31, 2021
1 Year Since Inception (11-18-2018)
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Fund - Class Y
Return Before Taxes (5.39)% 4.96%
Return After Taxes on Distributions (8.18)% 3.71%
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares (1.55)% 3.82%
Touchstone Anti-Benchmark® International Core Equity Fund - Institutional Class
Return Before Taxes (5.18)% 5.13%
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes)
11.26% 11.16%
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The Fund's Management
Investment Advisor
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. serves as the Fund's investment advisor.
Sub-Advisor Portfolio
Managers
Investment Experience
with the Fund
Primary Title with Sub-Advisor
TOBAM S.A.S. Tarik Allouache Managing the Fund since October 2019 Portfolio Manager
Ayaaz Allymun Managing the Fund since its inception in November 2018 Portfolio Manager
Mara Maccagnan Managing the Fund since its inception in November 2018 Portfolio Manager
Guillaume Toison Managing the Fund since its inception in November 2018 Portfolio Manager
Buying and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Investment Requirements
Class Y
Initial
Investment
Additional
Investment
Regular Account $ 2,500 $ 50
Retirement Account or Custodial Account under the Uniform Gifts/Transfers to Minors Act $ 1,000 $ 50
Investments through the Automatic Investment Plan $ 100 $ 50
Institutional Class
Initial
Investment
Additional
Investment
Regular Account $ 500,000 $ 50
Fund shares may be purchased and sold on days that the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading. Class Y shares are available only through financial intermediaries who have appropriate selling agreements in place with Touchstone Securities. Institutional Class shares are available through Touchstone Securities or your financial intermediary. Shares may be purchased or sold by writing to Touchstone Securities at P.O. Box 9878, Providence, Rhode Island 02940, calling 1.800.543.0407, or visiting the Touchstone Funds' website: TouchstoneInvestments.com. You may only sell shares over the telephone or via the Internet if the value of the shares sold is less than or equal to $100,000. Shares held in IRAs and qualified retirement plans cannot be sold via the Internet. If your shares are held by a processing organization or financial intermediary you will need to follow its purchase and redemption procedures. For more information about buying and selling shares, see the "Investing with Touchstone" section of the Fund's prospectus or call 1.800.543.0407.
Tax Information
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains except when shares are held through a tax-advantaged account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Withdrawals from a tax-advantaged account, however, may be taxable.
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Financial Intermediary Compensation
If you purchase shares in the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and 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 broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
































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