Thrivent Series Fund Inc.

04/30/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/30/2024 04:01

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company - Form 497K

Thrivent Small Cap Index Portfolio
Variable Portfolios
April 30, 2024
Thrivent Small Cap Index Portfolio
Summary Prospectus
This Summary Prospectus is designed to provide investors with key portfolio information in a clear and concise format. Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio's complete prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its risks.
•  If you purchase shares through Thrivent:
You can find the Portfolio's prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Portfolio online at thriventportfolios.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 800-847-4839 or by sending an email request to [email protected].
•  If you purchase shares from a firm other than Thrivent:
You can find the Portfolio's prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Portfolio online at thriventportfolios.com/prospectus. You can also get this information by calling or emailing your financial professional.
The Portfolio's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated Apr. 30, 2024, as revised or supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or email address noted above.
Shares of the Portfolio are sold only to insurance company separate accounts or to other investment companies funded by insurance company separate accounts. This Summary Prospectus is not intended for use by other investors.
Thrivent Small Cap Index Portfolio 
Investment Objective
Thrivent Small Cap Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio") seeks capital growth that tracks the performance of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.
Fees and Expenses
The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and/or sell shares of the Portfolio. If you own a variable annuity contract or variable life insurance contract, you will have additional fees and expenses. Please refer to the prospectus for your variable contract for additional information about fees and expenses associated with your contract.
Shareholder Fees 
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed On
Purchases (as a % of offering price)
N/A
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a % of
the net asset value)
N/A
Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.20%
Other Expenses
0.04%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
0.24%
Example
The example below is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Portfolio is an investment option for variable contracts, and the example does not include charges imposed by variable contracts. If variable contract charges were included, your expenses would be higher than those shown. 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, and that the Portfolio's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual cost may be higher or lower, based on the foregoing assumptions, your cost would be:
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
$25
$77
$135
$306
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 and may result in higher taxes when Portfolio shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio's portfolio turnover rate was 32% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Strategies
Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests substantially all of its assets (more than 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in small company common stocks included in the S&P SmallCap 600® Index in the proportions in which they are represented in the Index. This is a passively managed Portfolio, which means that the Adviser does not choose the securities that make up the Portfolio. The S&P SmallCap 600 Index is a capitalization-weighted index comprised of 600 domestic small capitalization stocks chosen for market size, liquidity, and industry representation. Accordingly, the Portfolio invests in stocks of smaller companies from a broad range of industries. The S&P SmallCap 600 Index is adjusted quarterly, and when changes to the index occur, the Adviser will attempt to replicate these changes within the Portfolio. However, any such changes may result in slight variations from time to time. The Portfolio may buy and sell equity index futures for investment exposure. For liquidity reasons, the Portfolio may invest to some degree in money market instruments.
Principal Risks
The Portfolio is subject to the following principal investment risks, which you should review carefully and in entirety. The Portfolio may not achieve its investment objective and you could lose money by investing in the Portfolio.
Small Cap Risk. Smaller, less seasoned companies often have greater price volatility, lower trading volume, and less liquidity than larger, more established companies. These companies tend to have small revenues, narrower product lines, less management depth and experience, small shares of their product or service markets, fewer financial resources, and less competitive strength than larger companies. Such companies seldom pay significant dividends that could soften the impact of a falling market on returns.
Market Risk. Over time, securities markets generally tend to move in cycles with periods when security prices rise and periods when security prices decline. The value of the Portfolio's investments may move with these cycles and, in some instances, increase or decrease more than the applicable market(s) as measured by the Portfolio's benchmark index(es). The securities markets may also decline because of factors that affect a particular industry or market sector, or due to impacts from domestic or global events, including regulatory events, economic downturn, government shutdowns, the spread of infectious illness such as the outbreak of COVID-19, public health crises, war, terrorism, social unrest, recessions, natural disasters or similar events.
Equity Security Risk. Equity securities held by the Portfolio may decline significantly in price, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, over short or extended periods of time, and such declines may occur because of declines in the equity market as a whole, or because of declines in only a particular country, geographic region, company, industry, or sector of the market. From time to time, the Portfolio may invest a significant portion of its assets in companies in one particular country or geographic region or one or more related sectors or industries, which would make the Portfolio more vulnerable to adverse developments affecting such countries, geographic regions, sectors or industries. Equity securities are generally more volatile than most debt securities.
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Futures Contract Risk. The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem with the value of the underlying instrument. The price of futures can be highly volatile; using them could lower total return, and the potential loss from futures can exceed the Portfolio's initial investment in such contracts. In addition, the value of the futures contract may not accurately track the value of the underlying instrument.
Indexing Strategy/Index Tracking Risk. The Portfolio is managed with an indexing investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an unmanaged index of securities, regardless of the current or projected performance of the Index or of the actual securities comprising the Index. The structure and composition of the Index will affect the performance, volatility, and risk of the Index and, consequently, the performance, volatility, and risk of the Portfolio. While the Adviser seeks to track the performance of the Index (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with the Index), the Portfolio's return may not match the return of the Index. The Portfolio incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to the Index and incurs costs in buying and selling securities. In addition, the Portfolio may not be fully invested at times, generally as a result of cash flows into or out of the Portfolio or reserves of cash held by the Portfolio to meet redemptions. The Adviser may attempt to replicate the Index return by investing in fewer than all of the securities in the Index, or in some securities not included in the Index, potentially increasing the risk of divergence between the Portfolio's return and that of the Index.
Issuer Risk. Issuer risk is the possibility that factors specific to an issuer to which the Portfolio is exposed will affect the market prices of the issuer's securities and therefore the value of the Portfolio.
Redemption Risk. The Portfolio may need to sell portfolio securities to meet redemption requests. The Portfolio could experience a loss when selling portfolio securities to meet redemption requests if there is (i) significant redemption activity by shareholders, including, for example, when a single investor or few large investors make a significant redemption of Portfolio shares, (ii) a disruption in the normal operation of the markets in which the Portfolio buys and sells portfolio securities or (iii) the inability of the Portfolio to sell portfolio securities because such securities are illiquid. In such events, the Portfolio could be forced to sell portfolio securities at unfavorable prices in an effort to generate sufficient cash to pay redeeming shareholders.
Performance
The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio's performance from year to year and by showing how the Portfolio's average annual returns for one-, five- and ten-year periods compared to a broad-based securities market index. The index description appears in the "Index Descriptions" section of the prospectus. Call 800-847-4836 or visit thrivent.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.
The bar chart and table include the effects of Portfolio expenses, but not charges or deductions against your variable contract, and assume that you sold your investment at the end of the period. Because shares of the Portfolio are offered through variable life insurance and variable annuity contracts, you should carefully review the variable contract prospectus for information on applicable charges and expenses. If the charges and deductions against your variable contract were included, returns would be lower than those shown.
How a Portfolio has performed in the past is not necessarily an indication of how it will perform in the future. Performance
information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio's performance over time.
Year-by-Year Total Return
Best Quarter:
Q4 2020
+31.25%
Worst Quarter:
Q1 2020
(32.69)%
Average Annual Total Returns
(Periods Ending December 31, 2023)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Portfolio (before taxes)
15.79%
10.78%
8.40%
S&P SmallCap 600® Index
(reflects no deduction for
fees, expenses or taxes)
16.05%
11.03%
8.66%
Management
Investment Adviser
The Portfolio is managed by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ("Thrivent" or the "Adviser").
Portfolio Managers
The following individuals are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Portfolio:
Name and Title
Portfolio Manager
of the Portfolio
Since
Brian W. Bomgren, CQF
Senior Portfolio Manager
January 2018
Sharon Wang, CFA, FRM
Senior Portfolio Manager
January 2018
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Purchase and Sale of Shares
Shares of each series of Thrivent Series Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") may be sold, without any minimum initial or subsequent investment requirements, only to:
Separate accounts of Thrivent;
Separate accounts of other insurance companies not affiliated with Thrivent; and
Other Portfolios of the Fund.
Tax Information
For information about certain tax-related aspects of investing in the Portfolio through a variable contract, please see the variable product prospectus.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase your variable contract through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, Thrivent, the other issuing insurance company or their related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of the contract, the selection of the Portfolio and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your financial professional to recommend the Portfolio over another investment. Ask your financial professional or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
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