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)
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N/A
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Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a % of
the net asset value)
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N/A
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Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
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0.20%
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Other Expenses
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0.04%
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Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses
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0.24%
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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
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3 Years
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5 Years
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10 Years
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$25
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$77
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$135
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$306
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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.