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The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style:italic">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan. </div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0075 0.0075 0 0.0025 0.0012 0.0013 0.0087 0.0113 Example <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes: </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date) </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge </div> </td> </tr> </table><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: </div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 89 89 277 277 481 481 1072 1072 115 115 359 359 622 622 1374 1374 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 23% of the average value of its portfolio. 0.23 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund invests primarily in common stocks of companies the portfolio managers believe are experiencing, or will experience, growth in earnings that exceeds the average rate of earnings growth of the companies which comprise the S&amp;P 500 Index. The fund may invest in the securities of large, well-known companies offering prospects of long-term earnings growth. However, because higher earnings growth rates are often achieved by small to medium capitalization companies, a significant portion of the fund’s assets may be invested in the securities of such companies. The fund may invest up to 25% of its net assets (at the time of investment) in equity securities of foreign issuers. </div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Industry or sector focus risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund may be susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to events that adversely affect the fund’s investments more than the market as a whole, to the extent that the fund may, from time to time, have greater exposure to the securities of a particular issuer or issuers within the same industry or sector. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Information technology sector risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Companies in the rapidly changing field of information technology face special risks. Additionally, companies in this field are dependent upon consumer and business acceptance as new technologies evolve. Information technology companies face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. They are also heavily dependent on intellectual property rights and may be adversely affected by the loss or impairment of, or inability to enforce, those rights. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Foreign investments risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Growth investing risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s growth-oriented investment style may increase the risks of investing in the fund. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. Growth stocks as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors value stocks. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. These illiquid assets may also be difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The value of your investment may decrease if the subadviser’s judgment about the attractiveness or value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the subadviser. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the subadviser and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information. </div> Performance <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style:italic">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style:italic">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan. </div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2025-06-30 0.1869 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.1927 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1332 0.0524 0.0747 0.1310 0.0498 0.0720 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.0866 0.0665 0.1249 <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">No one index is representative of the fund’s portfolio. </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change. </div> Investment objective <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund seeks long-term growth of capital. </div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges.<span style="font-style:italic"> If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown</span>. Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan. </div>  Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment)  Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0075 0.0075 0 0.0025 0.0007 0.0007 0.0082 0.0107 Example <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes: </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date) </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge </div> </td> </tr> </table><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: </div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 84 84 262 262 456 456 1015 1015 109 109 340 340 589 589 1304 1304 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 36% of the average value of its portfolio. 0.36 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, if any, in equity securities, or other investments with similar economic characteristics, of medium capitalization companies. Medium capitalization companies are defined as those companies whose market capitalization values are in the range of the market capitalization values of the constituents of the S&amp;P MidCap 400 Index or the Russell Midcap Index, as determined from time to time. Securities of companies whose market capitalizations no longer meet this definition after purchase by the fund still will be considered to be securities of medium capitalization companies for purposes of the fund’s 80% investment policy. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in equity securities of companies other than medium capitalization companies. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund may invest up to 25% of its net assets (at the time of investment) in foreign securities. </div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance. </div><div style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of mid‑capitalization companies. Mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may offer greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. Historically, the prices of securities of small and medium capitalization companies have generally been more volatile than those of large capitalization companies. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. These illiquid assets may also be difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Foreign investments risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Industry or sector focus risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund may be susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to events that adversely affect the fund’s investments more than the market as a whole, to the extent that the fund may, from time to time, have greater exposure to the securities of a particular issuer or issuers within the same industry or sector. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The value of your investment may decrease if the subadviser’s judgment about the attractiveness or value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the subadviser. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the subadviser and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#47829e">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information. </div> Performance <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style:italic">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style:italic">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan. </div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2020-06-30 0.2155 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.2761  Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.0435 0.0450 0.0750 0.0408 0.0423 0.0724 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.1060 0.0867 0.1101 <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">No one index is representative of the fund’s portfolio. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change. </div> Investment objective <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund seeks long-term growth of capital.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0075 0.0075 0 0.0025 0.0005 0.0005 0.0001 0.0001 0.0081 0.0106 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 83 83 259 259 450 450 1003 1003 108 108 337 337 584 584 1293 1293 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 37% of the average value of its portfolio. 0.37 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies with small market capitalizations and related investments. For the purposes of this 80% policy, small capitalization companies are companies with market capitalization values not exceeding (i) $3 billion or (ii) the highest month-end market capitalization value of any stock in the Russell 2000 Index for the previous 12 months, whichever is greater. Securities of companies whose market capitalizations no longer meet this definition after purchase by the fund are still considered to be securities of small capitalization companies for purposes of the fund’s 80% investment policy. The Russell 2000 Index measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets (at the time of investment) in foreign securities.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers use a growth-oriented investment style that emphasizes small U.S. companies.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over-the-counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies</div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Small capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small capitalization companies. Small capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times or at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Growth investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s growth-oriented investment style may increase the risks of investing in the fund. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. Growth stocks as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors value stocks. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Foreign investments risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. These illiquid assets may also be difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the subadviser’s judgment about the attractiveness or value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the subadviser. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the subadviser and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. Historically, the prices of securities of small and medium capitalization companies have generally been more volatile than those of large capitalization companies. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Industry or sector focus risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund may be susceptible to an increased risk of loss, including losses due to events that adversely affect the fund’s investments more than the market as a whole, to the extent that the fund may, from time to time, have greater exposure to the securities of a particular issuer or issuers within the same industry or sector. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance and an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2020-06-30 0.3894 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.2400 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.0923 -0.0017 0.0938 0.0897 -0.0042 0.0911 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.1301 0.0318 0.0957 <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">No one index is representative of the fund’s portfolio.</div><div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0 0 0 0.0025 0.0014 0.0014 0.0064 0.0064 0.0078 0.0103 Other expenses for Class II shares are estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 80 80 250 250 434 434 967 967 105 105 328 328 569 569 1260 1260 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 25% of the average value of its portfolio.References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Multi-Asset Variable Growth Fund. 0.25 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund is a fund of funds—it invests in other mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) (such mutual funds and ETFs collectively referred to as “underlying funds”). The portfolio is managed as an asset allocation program and allocates its assets among mutual funds and ETFs managed by the manager and its affiliates, including other Franklin Templeton investment managers. The fund may also invest in mutual funds and ETFs managed by unaffiliated investment advisers. When selecting underlying funds to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate to Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds, provided that appropriate products are available.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under normal market conditions, the portfolio managers will allocate between 70% to 100% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 0% to 30% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in fixed income and fixed income-like strategies. The portfolio managers may, however, allocate fund assets to any underlying funds in varying amounts in a manner consistent with the fund’s investment objective. For underlying funds that invest in both equity and fixed income securities, and/or invest in alternative investments, the fund’s portfolio managers will make a reasonable determination to assign such underlying fund, or a percentage of such underlying fund, to the equity or fixed income asset class depending upon the underlying fund’s overall asset class exposures and/or volatility profile. The underlying fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movements.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of the fund’s composite benchmark as defined under “Performance” below.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in U.S., foreign and/or emerging markets, may engage in derivative transactions, and may take both long and short positions in securities. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including growth or value strategies. The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements. The underlying fixed income funds include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The underlying funds may have exposure to non-traditional, alternative investments, including commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets, among other types of alternative asset classes. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over-the-counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non-subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Cybersecurity risk. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non-U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Extension risk. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer).</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non-investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Issuer risk. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Small and mid-capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid-capitalization companies. Small and mid-capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid-capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid-capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 1000 Index, 20% Russell 2000 Index, 20% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 1000 Index, 20% Russell 2000 Index, 20% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 1000 Index, 20% Russell 2000 Index, 20% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2020-06-30 0.1817 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.2236 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1656 0.1101 0.1059 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0201 0.1777 0.0947 0.1085 <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Franklin Multi-Asset Variable Moderate Growth Fund Investment objective <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund seeks long-term growth of capital.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0 0 0 0.0025 0.0031 0.0031 0.0056 0.0056 0.0087 0.0112 -0.0011 -0.0011 0.0076 0.0101 Other expenses for Class II shares are estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. December 31, 2027 Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 78 78 267 267 472 472 1063 1063 103 103 345 345 606 606 1353 1353 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 24% of the average value of its portfolio. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Multi-Asset Variable Moderate Growth Fund.</div> 0.24 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund is a fund of funds—it invests in other mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) (such mutual funds and ETFs collectively referred to as “underlying funds”). The portfolio is managed as an asset allocation program and allocates its assets among mutual funds and ETFs managed by the manager and its affiliates, including other Franklin Templeton investment managers. The fund may also invest in mutual funds and ETFs managed by unaffiliated investment advisers. When selecting underlying funds to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate to Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds, provided that appropriate products are available.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under normal market conditions, the portfolio managers will allocate between 55% to 85% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 15% to 45% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in fixed income and fixed income-like strategies. The portfolio managers may, however, allocate fund assets to any underlying funds in varying amounts in a manner consistent with the fund’s investment objective. For underlying funds that invest in both equity and fixed income securities, and/or invest in alternative investments, the fund’s portfolio managers will make a reasonable determination to assign such underlying fund, or a percentage of such underlying fund, to the equity or fixed income asset class depending upon the underlying fund’s overall asset class exposures and/or volatility profile. The underlying fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movements.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of the fund’s composite benchmark as defined under “Performance” below.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in U.S., foreign and/or emerging markets, may engage in derivative transactions, and may take both long and short positions in securities. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including growth or value strategies. The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements. The underlying fixed income funds include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The underlying funds may have exposure to non-traditional, alternative investments, including commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets, among other types of alternative asset classes. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similarinvestments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over-the-counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non-subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non-U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer).</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non-investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Small and mid-capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid-capitalization companies. Small and mid-capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid-capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid-capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 40% Russell 1000 Index, 15% Russell 2000 Index, 15% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 25% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.<span style="font-style: italic;"> If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 40% Russell 1000 Index, 15% Russell 2000 Index, 15% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 25% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of Class I shares of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 40% Russell 1000 Index, 15% Russell 2000 Index, 15% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 25% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 5% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2020-06-30 0.1562 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.1846 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1486 0.0931 0.0945 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0201 0.1580 0.0796 0.0956 <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Franklin Multi-Asset Variable Conservative Growth Fund Investment objective <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund seeks balance of growth of capital and income.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0 0 0 0.0025 0.0013 0.0013 0.0046 0.0046 0.0059 0.0084 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 60 60 189 189 330 330 739 739 86 86 268 268 466 466 1038 1038 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 19% of the average value of its portfolio. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Multi-Asset Variable Conservative Growth Fund.</div> 0.19 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund is a fund of funds—it invests in other mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) (such mutual funds and ETFs collectively referred to as “underlying funds”). The portfolio is managed as an asset allocation program and allocates its assets among mutual funds and ETFs managed by the manager and its affiliates, including other Franklin Templeton investment managers. The fund may also invest in mutual funds and ETFs managed by unaffiliated investment advisers. When selecting underlying funds to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate to Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds, provided that appropriate products are available.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under normal market conditions, the portfolio managers will allocate between 35% to 65% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 35% to 65% of the fund’s assets to underlying funds that invest in fixed income and fixed income-like strategies. The portfolio managers may, however, allocate fund assets to any underlying funds in varying amounts in a manner consistent with the fund’s investment objective. For underlying funds that invest in both equity and fixed income securities, and/or invest in alternative investments, the fund’s portfolio managers will make a reasonable determination to assign such underlying fund, or a percentage of such underlying fund, to the equity or fixed income asset class depending upon the underlying fund’s overall asset class exposures and/or volatility profile. The underlying fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movements.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of the fund’s composite benchmark as defined under “Performance” below.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in U.S., foreign and/or emerging markets, may engage in derivative transactions, and may take both long and short positions in securities. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including growth or value strategies. The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements. The underlying fixed income funds include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The underlying funds may have exposure to non-traditional, alternative investments, including commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets, among other types of alternative asset classes. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over-the-counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non-subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non-U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer).</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non-investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Small and mid-capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid-capitalization companies. Small and mid-capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid-capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid-capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #47829e;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the fund’s major asset classes, consisting of 28% Russell 1000 Index, 12% Russell 2000 Index, 10% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 43% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 7% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the fund’s major asset classes, consisting of 28% Russell 1000 Index, 12% Russell 2000 Index, 10% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 43% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 7% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, additional indexes with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the fund’s major asset classes, consisting of 28% Russell 1000 Index, 12% Russell 2000 Index, 10% MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East Index, 43% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and 7% Bloomberg U.S. High Yield—2% Issuer Cap Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877-6LM-FUND/656-3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2020-06-30 0.1279 Worst Quarter 2020-03-31 -0.1364 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1276 0.0669 0.0770 0.1250 0.0643 0.0709 2017-06-23 0.1715 0.1315 0.1429 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0201 0.1737 0.1359 0.1459 0.1327 0.0571 0.0761 <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Franklin Templeton Aggressive Model Portfolio Investment objective <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund seeks capital appreciation. </div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style:italic">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan. </div> Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0009 0.0009 0 0.0025 0.0002 0.0002 0.0052 0.0052 0.0063 0.0088 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes: </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date) </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge </div> </td> </tr> </table><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: </div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 64 64 201 201 350 350 786 786 90 90 281 281 488 488 1084 1084 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 and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. 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 33% of the average value of its portfolio.<div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Templeton Aggressive Model Portfolio. </div> 0.33 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund is managed as an asset allocation program. The portfolio managers allocate the fund’s assets among insurance-dedicated mutual funds that have been selected by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (“NYLIAC”) as investment options for use with its variable annuity and variable universal life insurance policies, noninsurance-dedicated mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (the “underlying funds”). The underlying funds include funds managed by investment advisers that are not affiliated with the fund’s manager and funds managed by affiliated investment advisers. When selecting investments to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate primarily to underlying funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers, but may also allocate to affiliated underlying funds. The underlying funds may change from time to time without prior notice to shareholders. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under ordinary circumstances, the portfolio managers expect to construct an aggressive model portfolio by allocating between 80% to 100% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 0% to 20% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in fixed income strategies. The fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movement. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The portfolio managers analyze the underlying funds to determine the factors they believe contribute to the underlying funds’ long-term performance. The portfolio managers will then allocate to the underlying funds based on, among other things, considerations such as the portfolio managers’ views of how these factors may perform in the future, risks associated with the underlying funds, projected correlations among the underlying funds, and how the characteristics of the overall portfolio align with the fund’s benchmark. The portfolio managers use quantitative and qualitative methods to determine how to allocate the fund’s assets among the underlying funds. The portfolio managers may change the fund’s holdings of underlying funds in response to changes in the portfolio managers’ investment outlook, their assessment of the underlying funds or for other reasons. The portfolio managers use the same selection process for all types of underlying funds, but typically allocate to insurance-dedicated underlying funds in preference to noninsurance-dedicated underlying funds with similar characteristics. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund compares its performance to a composite benchmark, consisting of 75% Russell 3000 Index, 15% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of this composite benchmark. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles, objectives and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in foreign and emerging markets and engage in derivative transactions. The underlying equity funds may invest in equity securities of all types, including common stock, preferred stock, right and warrants, and securities convertible into common stock. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including alternative investments (such as commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets). The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements or take both long and short positions in equity securities. Underlying funds investing primarily in real estate securities, listed infrastructure securities, and master limited partnerships will be deemed to be “equity funds” for purposes of the fund’s allocation strategy. The underlying fixed income funds may invest in fixed income securities of all types, including government and government-sponsored securities, </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> corporate bonds and securitized products. The underlying fixed income funds may include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. The underlying fixed income funds may take both long and short positions in fixed income securities. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities and durations of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The investment strategies employed by the underlying funds and the securities in which they invest may change without the knowledge of the fund’s portfolio managers. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history. </div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non‑subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non‑U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span>The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer). </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non‑investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investment in other investment companies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in other investment companies are subject to market and portfolio selection risk, as well as portfolio management risk. If the fund acquires shares of investment companies, including ones affiliated with the fund, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information. </div> Performance <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 75% Russell 3000 Index, 15% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style:italic">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style:italic">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan. </div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 75% Russell 3000 Index, 15% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 75% Russell 3000 Index, 15% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 10% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2023-12-31 0.1143 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.1372 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1730 0.1041 0.1447 2020-04-15 0.1704 0.1014 0.1420 2020-04-15 0.1715 0.1315 0.1849 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0013 0.1834 0.1130 0.1605 <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change. </div> Franklin Templeton Moderately Aggressive Model Portfolio Investment objective <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund seeks capital appreciation. </div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style:italic">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan. </div> Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0009 0.0009 0 0.0025 0.0001 0.0001 0.0047 0.0047 0.0057 0.0082 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes: </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date) </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge </div> </td> </tr> </table><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: </div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 58 58 183 183 318 318 713 713 84 84 262 262 456 456 1015 1015 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 and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. 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 24% of the average value of its portfolio.<div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Templeton Moderately Aggressive Model Portfolio. </div> 0.24 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund is managed as an asset allocation program. The portfolio managers allocate the fund’s assets among insurance-dedicated mutual funds that have been selected by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (“NYLIAC”) as investment options for use with its variable annuity and variable universal life insurance policies, noninsurance-dedicated mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (the “underlying funds”). The underlying funds include funds managed by investment advisers that are not affiliated with the fund’s manager and funds managed by affiliated investment advisers. When selecting investments to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate primarily to underlying funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers, but may also allocate to affiliated underlying funds. The underlying funds may change from time to time without prior notice to shareholders. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under ordinary circumstances, the portfolio managers expect to construct a moderately aggressive model portfolio by allocating between 60% to 70% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 30% to 40% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in fixed income strategies. The fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movement. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The portfolio managers analyze the underlying funds to determine the factors they believe contribute to the underlying funds’ long-term performance. The portfolio managers will then allocate to the underlying funds based on, among other things, considerations such as the portfolio managers’ views of how these factors may perform in the future, risks associated with the underlying funds, projected correlations among the underlying funds, and how the characteristics of the overall portfolio align with the fund’s benchmark. The portfolio managers use quantitative and qualitative methods to determine how to allocate the fund’s assets among the underlying funds. The portfolio managers may change the fund’s holdings of underlying funds in response to changes in the portfolio managers’ investment outlook, their assessment of the underlying funds or for other reasons. The portfolio managers use the same selection process for all types of underlying funds, but typically allocate to insurance-dedicated underlying funds in preference to noninsurance-dedicated underlying funds with similar characteristics. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund compares its performance to a composite benchmark, consisting of 60% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 30% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of this composite benchmark. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles, objectives and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in foreign and emerging markets and engage in derivative transactions. The underlying equity funds may invest in equity securities of all types, including common stock, preferred stock, right and warrants, and securities convertible into common stock. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including alternative investments (such as commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets). The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements or take both long and short positions in equity securities. Underlying funds investing primarily in real estate securities, listed infrastructure securities, and master limited partnerships will be deemed to be “equity funds” for purposes of the fund’s allocation strategy. The underlying fixed income funds may invest in fixed income securities of all types, including government and government-sponsored securities, </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> corporate bonds and securitized products. The underlying fixed income funds may include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. The underlying fixed income funds may take both long and short positions in fixed income securities. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities and durations of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The investment strategies employed by the underlying funds and the securities in which they invest may change without the knowledge of the fund’s portfolio managers. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history. </div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non‑subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non‑U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span>The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer). </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non‑investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investment in other investment companies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in other investment companies are subject to market and portfolio selection risk, as well as portfolio management risk. If the fund acquires shares of investment companies, including ones affiliated with the fund, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information. </div> Performance <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 60% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 30% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style:italic">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style:italic">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan. </div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 60% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 30% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 60% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 30% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2023-12-31 0.1022 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.1199 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1529 0.0812 0.1149 2020-04-15 0.1501 0.0787 0.1122 2020-04-15 0.1715 0.1315 0.1849 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0013 0.1565 0.0876 0.1250 <div style="margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change. </div> Franklin Templeton Moderate Model Portfolio Investment objective <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund seeks capital appreciation.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0009 0.0009 0 0.0025 0.0001 0.0001 0.0047 0.0047 0.0057 0.0082 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 58 58 183 183 318 318 713 713 84 84 262 262 456 456 1015 1015 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 and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. 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 28% of the average value of its portfolio. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Templeton Moderate Model Portfolio.</div> 0.28 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund is managed as an asset allocation program. The portfolio managers allocate the fund’s assets among insurance-dedicated mutual funds that have been selected by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (“NYLIAC”) as investment options for use with its variable annuity and variable universal life insurance policies, noninsurance-dedicated mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (the “underlying funds”). The underlying funds include funds managed by investment advisers that are not affiliated with the fund’s manager and funds managed by affiliated investment advisers. When selecting investments to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate primarily to underlying funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers, but may also allocate to affiliated underlying funds. The underlying funds may change from time to time without prior notice to shareholders.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under ordinary circumstances, the portfolio managers expect to construct a moderate model portfolio by allocating between 45% to 65% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 35% to 55% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in fixed income strategies. The fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movement.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers analyze the underlying funds to determine the factors they believe contribute to the underlying funds’ long-term performance. The portfolio managers will then allocate to the underlying funds based on, among other things, considerations such as the portfolio managers’ views of how these factors may perform in the future, risks associated with the underlying funds, projected correlations among the underlying funds, and how the characteristics of the overall portfolio align with the fund’s benchmark. The portfolio managers use quantitative and qualitative methods to determine how to allocate the fund’s assets among the underlying funds. The portfolio managers may change the fund’s holdings of underlying funds in response to changes in the portfolio managers’ investment outlook, their assessment of the underlying funds or for other reasons. The portfolio managers use the same selection process for all types of underlying funds, but typically allocate to insurance-dedicated underlying funds in preference to noninsurance-dedicated underlying funds with similar characteristics.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund compares its performance to a composite benchmark, consisting of 45% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 45% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of this composite benchmark.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles, objectives and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in foreign and emerging markets and engage in derivative transactions. The underlying equity funds may invest in equity securities of all types, including common stock, preferred stock, right and warrants, and securities convertible into common stock. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including alternative investments (such as commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets). The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements or take both long and short positions in equity securities. Underlying funds investing primarily in real estate securities, listed infrastructure securities, and master limited partnerships will be deemed to be “equity funds” for purposes of the fund’s allocation strategy. The underlying fixed income funds may invest in fixed income securities of all types, including government and government-sponsored securities,</div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">corporate bonds and securitized products. The underlying fixed income funds may include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. The underlying fixed income funds may take both long and short positions in fixed income securities. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities and durations of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The investment strategies employed by the underlying funds and the securities in which they invest may change without the knowledge of the fund’s portfolio managers. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non‑subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non‑U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer).</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non‑investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investment in other investment companies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in other investment companies are subject to market and portfolio selection risk, as well as portfolio management risk. If the fund acquires shares of investment companies, including ones affiliated with the fund, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 45% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.<i> If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</i> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 45% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 45% Russell 3000 Index, 10% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 45% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2023-12-31 0.0946 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.1083 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1356 0.0676 0.0932 2020-04-15 0.1318 0.0649 0.0903 2020-04-15 0.1715 0.1315 0.1849 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0013 0.1415 0.0673 0.0973 <div style="margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Franklin Templeton Moderately Conservative Model Portfolio Investment objective <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund seeks a balance of capital appreciation and income.</div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style: italic;">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan.</div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0009 0.0009 0 0.0025 0.0003 0.0003 0.0045 0.0045 0.0057 0.0082 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes:</div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%;"> <tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 7pt;">•</span></td> <td style="width: 1%; vertical-align: top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge</div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 58 58 183 183 318 318 713 713 84 84 262 262 456 456 1015 1015 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 and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. 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 25% of the average value of its portfolio. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Templeton Moderately Conservative Model Portfolio.</div> 0.25 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund is managed as an asset allocation program. The portfolio managers allocate the fund’s assets among insurance-dedicated mutual funds that have been selected by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (“NYLIAC”) as investment options for use with its variable annuity and variable universal life insurance policies, noninsurance-dedicated mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (the “underlying funds”). The underlying funds include funds managed by investment advisers that are not affiliated with the fund’s manager and funds managed by affiliated investment advisers. When selecting investments to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate primarily to underlying funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers, but may also allocate to affiliated underlying funds. The underlying funds may change from time to time without prior notice to shareholders.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under ordinary circumstances, the portfolio managers expect to construct a moderately conservative model portfolio by allocating between 30% to 50% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 50% to 70% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in fixed income strategies. The fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movement.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The portfolio managers analyze the underlying funds to determine the factors they believe contribute to the underlying funds’ long-term performance. The portfolio managers will then allocate to the underlying funds based on, among other things, considerations such as the portfolio managers’ views of how these factors may perform in the future, risks associated with the underlying funds, projected correlations among the underlying funds, and how the characteristics of the overall portfolio align with the fund’s benchmark. The portfolio managers use quantitative and qualitative methods to determine how to allocate the fund’s assets among the underlying funds. The portfolio managers may change the fund’s holdings of underlying funds in response to changes in the portfolio managers’ investment outlook, their assessment of the underlying funds or for other reasons. The portfolio managers use the same selection process for all types of underlying funds, but typically allocate to insurance-dedicated underlying funds in preference to noninsurance-dedicated underlying funds with similar characteristics.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The fund compares its performance to a composite benchmark, consisting of 35% Russell 3000 Index, 5% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 60% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of this composite benchmark.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles, objectives and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in foreign and emerging markets and engage in derivative transactions. The underlying equity funds may invest in equity securities of all types, including common stock, preferred stock, right and warrants, and securities convertible into common stock. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including alternative investments (such as commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets). The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements or take both long and short positions in equity securities. Underlying funds investing primarily in real estate securities, listed infrastructure securities, and master limited partnerships will be deemed to be “equity funds” for purposes of the fund’s allocation strategy. The underlying fixed income funds may invest in fixed income securities of all types, including government and government-sponsored securities,</div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">corporate bonds and securitized products. The underlying fixed income funds may include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. The underlying fixed income funds may take both long and short positions in fixed income securities. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities and durations of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The investment strategies employed by the underlying funds and the securities in which they invest may change without the knowledge of the fund’s portfolio managers. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history.</div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non‑subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non‑U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer).</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non‑investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Portfolio management risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Investment in other investment companies risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Investments in other investment companies are subject to market and portfolio selection risk, as well as portfolio management risk. If the fund acquires shares of investment companies, including ones affiliated with the fund, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #007dc1;">Valuation risk.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.</div> Performance <div style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 35% Russell 3000 Index, 5% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 60% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863.</div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div> <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.<i> If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</i> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan.</div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 35% Russell 3000 Index, 5% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 60% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 35% Russell 3000 Index, 5% MSCI World Ex U.S.A. Index, and 60% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table.If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2023-12-31 0.0843 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.0908 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.1176 0.0517 0.0733 2020-04-15 0.1151 0.0491 0.0708 2020-04-15 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0013 0.1715 0.1315 0.1849 0.1198 0.0487 0.0716 <div style="margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change.</div> Franklin Templeton Conservative Model Portfolio Investment objective <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund seeks a balance of capital appreciation and income. </div> Fees and expenses of the fund <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. The fee table and expense example do not reflect expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and do not reflect variable annuity or life insurance contract charges. <span style="font-style:italic">If they did, the overall fees and expenses would be higher than those shown.</span> Detailed information about the cost of investing in this fund through a separate account or qualified plan is presented in the contract prospectus through which the fund’s shares are offered to you or in the information provided by your plan. </div> Shareholder fees(fees paid directly from your investment) Annual fund operating expenses (%)(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) 0.0009 0.0009 0 0.0025 0.0006 0.0006 0.0045 0.0045 0.0060 0.0085 Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Example <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">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 does not include expenses incurred from investing through a separate account or qualified plan and does not reflect variable annuity and variable life contract charges. If the example included these expenses, the figures shown would be higher. The example assumes: </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that any applicable fee waiver or expense reimbursement is reflected only through its expiration date) </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%"> <tr style="page-break-inside:avoid"> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:7pt">•</span></td> <td style="width:1%;vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;"> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;text-align:left;">You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge </div> </td> </tr> </table><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: </div> Number of years you own your shares ($) Number of years you own your shares ($) 61 61 192 192 335 335 750 750 87 87 271 271 471 471 1048 1048 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 and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. 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 20% of the average value of its portfolio.<div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">References to the “fund” refer to Franklin Templeton Conservative Model Portfolio. </div> 0.20 Principal investment strategies <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund is managed as an asset allocation program. The portfolio managers allocate the fund’s assets among insurance-dedicated mutual funds that have been selected by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (“NYLIAC”) as investment options for use with its variable annuity and variable universal life insurance policies, noninsurance-dedicated mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (the “underlying funds”). The underlying funds include funds managed by investment advisers that are not affiliated with the fund’s manager and funds managed by affiliated investment advisers. When selecting investments to fulfill a desired asset class exposure, the portfolio managers expect to allocate primarily to underlying funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers, but may also allocate to affiliated underlying funds. The underlying funds may change from time to time without prior notice to shareholders. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund organizes its investments in underlying funds into two main asset classes: the equity class (equity securities of all types) and the fixed income class (fixed income securities of all types). The portfolio managers may invest across all asset classes and strategies. Under ordinary circumstances, the portfolio managers expect to construct a conservative model portfolio by allocating between 10% to 30% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in equity and equity-like strategies and between 70% to 90% of the fund’s assets among underlying funds that invest in fixed income strategies. The fund’s allocation to each class will be measured at the time of purchase and may vary thereafter as a result of market movement. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The portfolio managers analyze the underlying funds to determine the factors they believe contribute to the underlying funds’ long-term performance. The portfolio managers will then allocate to the underlying funds based on, among other things, considerations such as the portfolio managers’ views of how these factors may perform in the future, risks associated with the underlying funds, projected correlations among the underlying funds, and how the characteristics of the overall portfolio align with the fund’s benchmark. The portfolio managers use quantitative and qualitative methods to determine how to allocate the fund’s assets among the underlying funds. The portfolio managers may change the fund’s holdings of underlying funds in response to changes in the portfolio managers’ investment outlook, their assessment of the underlying funds or for other reasons. The portfolio managers use the same selection process for all types of underlying funds, but typically allocate to insurance-dedicated underlying funds in preference to noninsurance-dedicated underlying funds with similar characteristics. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The fund compares its performance to a composite benchmark, consisting of 20% Russell 3000 Index and 80% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The portfolio managers will seek to maintain a level of risk in the fund similar to that of this composite benchmark. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The underlying funds have a range of investment styles, objectives and focuses. The underlying funds may invest in foreign and emerging markets and engage in derivative transactions. The underlying equity funds may invest in equity securities of all types, including common stock, preferred stock, right and warrants, and securities convertible into common stock. The underlying equity funds may include exposure to any market capitalization or investment style, including alternative investments (such as commodities, real estate assets and infrastructure assets). The underlying equity funds may employ strategies similar to those used by hedge funds, which may have a low correlation to broad stock market movements or take both long and short positions in equity securities. Underlying funds investing primarily in real estate securities, listed infrastructure securities, and master limited partnerships will be deemed to be “equity funds” for purposes of the fund’s allocation strategy. The underlying fixed income funds may invest in fixed income securities of all types, including government and government-sponsored securities, </div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> corporate bonds and securitized products. The underlying fixed income funds may include funds investing in any sector, region or style, including foreign fixed income strategies, currency strategies, inflation-indexed securities, structured credit and distressed debt. The underlying fixed income funds may take both long and short positions in fixed income securities. Such funds may also seek to profit from changes in global financial markets and take positions to take advantage of changes in interest rates, exchange rates, liquidity and other macroeconomic factors. The underlying fixed income funds may also invest in securities having maturities and durations of any length and any credit quality, including securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The investment strategies employed by the underlying funds and the securities in which they invest may change without the knowledge of the fund’s portfolio managers. The portfolio managers may invest the fund’s assets in underlying funds that have a limited performance history. </div> You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Market events risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market values of securities or other assets will fluctuate, sometimes sharply and unpredictably, due to factors such as economic events, governmental actions or intervention, actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by trade disputes, labor strikes or other factors, political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions and countermeasures in response to sanctions, major cybersecurity events, the global and domestic effects of widespread or local health, weather or climate events, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, public health events, terrorism, wars, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries or markets directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities have and could continue to have a significant impact on certain fund investments as well as fund performance and liquidity. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian stocks lost all, or nearly all, of their market value. Other securities or markets could be similarly affected by past or future geopolitical or other events or conditions. Furthermore, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non‑performance or other adverse developments that affect one industry, such as the financial services industry, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems, may spread to other industries, and could negatively affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Raising the ceiling on U.S. government debt has become increasingly politicized. Any failure to increase the total amount that the U.S. government is authorized to borrow could lead to a default on U.S. government obligations, with unpredictable consequences for economies and markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. Recently, inflation and interest rates have been volatile and may increase in the future. These circumstances could adversely affect the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments, impair the fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the fund’s performance. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The United States and other countries are periodically involved in disputes over trade and other matters, which may result in tariffs, investment restrictions and adverse impacts on affected companies and securities or the broader U.S. or global economies. For example, the United States has imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on Chinese exports, has restricted sales of certain categories of goods to China, and has established barriers to investments in China. Trade disputes may adversely affect the economies of the United States and its trading partners, as well as companies directly or indirectly affected and financial markets generally. The United States government has prohibited U.S. persons from investing in Chinese companies designated as related to the Chinese military. These and possible future restrictions could limit the fund’s opportunities for investment and require the sale of securities at a loss or make them illiquid. Moreover, the Chinese government is involved in a longstanding dispute with Taiwan that has included threats of invasion. If the political climate between the United States and China does not improve or continues to deteriorate, if China were to attempt unification of Taiwan by force, or if other geopolitical conflicts develop or get worse, economies, markets and individual securities may be severely affected both regionally and globally, and the value of the fund’s assets may go down. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Fixed income securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Fixed income securities are subject to a number of risks, including credit, market and interest rate risks. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or obligor will not make timely payments of principal and interest. Changes in an issuer’s or obligor’s credit rating or the market’s perception of an issuer’s or obligor’s creditworthiness may also affect the value of the fund’s investment in that issuer. The fund is subject to greater levels of credit risk to the extent it holds below investment grade debt securities, or “junk” bonds. Market risk is the risk that the fixed income markets may become volatile and have lower liquidity or behave in unexpected ways, and the market value of an investment may decrease, sometimes quickly or unpredictably. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of a fixed income security will fall when interest rates rise. A rise in interest rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Stock market and equity securities risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The stock markets are volatile and the market prices of equity securities held by the fund may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities may include exchange-traded and over‑the‑counter common stocks, preferred stock, depositary receipts, trust certificates, limited partnership interests, warrants, rights, securities convertible into equity securities, and shares of other investment companies, including exchange-traded funds, and of real estate investment trusts. Equity securities may have greater price volatility than other asset classes, such as fixed income securities. The market price of a security may fluctuate based on overall market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions or trends, tariffs and trade disruptions, inflation, substantial economic downturn or recession, changes in interest rates, or adverse investor sentiment. Changes in market conditions will not typically have the same impact on all types of securities. If the market prices of the equity securities owned by the fund fall, the value of your investment in the fund will decline. If the fund holds equity securities in a company that becomes insolvent, the fund’s interests in the company will be subordinated to the interests of debtholders and general creditors of the company, and the fund may lose its entire investment. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Asset class variation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> An underlying fund that invests principally in securities constituting one or more asset classes (i.e., equity or fixed income) may vary the percentage of its assets in these asset classes (subject to any applicable regulatory requirements). </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Allocation risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation and in selecting the mix of underlying funds. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style, underlying fund or other issuer is incorrect. In addition, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Affiliated funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund’s manager, subadviser or an affiliate serves as manager or subadviser of certain Franklin Templeton affiliated underlying funds (“Affiliated Funds”). As a result, the manager and the subadviser have financial incentives to allocate the fund’s assets to Affiliated Funds that pay fees to the manager, the subadviser or an affiliate. For example, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to select Affiliated Funds that will result in the greatest revenue to the manager and its affiliates, even if that results in increased expenses for the fund. Similarly, the manager and the subadviser have an incentive to delay or decide against the sale of interests held by a fund in Affiliated Funds. This gives rise to a conflict of interest. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Credit risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or its credit is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. The fund could be delayed or hindered in its enforcement of rights against an issuer, guarantor or counterparty. Subordinated securities (meaning securities that rank below other securities with respect to claims on the issuer’s assets) are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non‑subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in ETFs risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value and may experience volatility in certain market conditions. The fund will pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sales of shares of ETFs. In addition, the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of fees and expenses incurred by an ETF in which it invests, including advisory fees. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. Certain ETFs are also subject to portfolio management risk. Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Cybersecurity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Like other funds and business enterprises, the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time. Cybersecurity incidents, whether intentionally caused by third parties or otherwise, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, fund or customer data (including private shareholder information) or proprietary information, cause the fund, the manager, the subadvisers and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub‑custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality, or prevent fund investors from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares, receiving distributions or receiving timely information regarding the fund or their investment in the fund. The fund, the manager, and the subadvisers have limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the fund, the manager, and/or the subadvisers. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may be incurred in order to prevent or mitigate any future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities in which the fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">New ways to carry out cyber attacks continue to develop. There is a chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations on the fund’s ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Derivatives risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains, such as when market prices, interest rates, currencies or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may not be available at the time or price desired, may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying asset, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and non‑U.S. governments have adopted and implemented regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value. When the fund sells credit protection via a credit default swap, credit risk increases since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Extension risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Foreign investments and emerging markets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span>The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk as compared to investments in U.S. securities or issuers with predominantly U.S. exposure, such as less liquid, less transparent, less regulated and more volatile markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support, inadequate accounting standards and auditing and financial recordkeeping requirements, lack of information, political, economic, financial or social instability, terrorism, armed conflicts and other geopolitical events, and the impact of tariffs and other restrictions on trade or economic sanctions. Geopolitical or other events such as nationalization or expropriation could even cause the loss of the fund’s entire investment in one or more countries. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">In addition, there may be significant obstacles to obtaining information necessary for investigations into or litigation against issuers located in or operating in certain foreign markets, particularly emerging market countries, and shareholders may have limited legal remedies. To the extent the fund focuses its investments in a single country or only a few countries in a particular geographic region, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions affecting such country or region may have a greater impact on fund performance relative to a more geographically diversified fund. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic and political conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation. The fund may be unable or may choose not to hedge its foreign currency exposure. </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by local banks, agents and depositories. Settlement of trades in these markets can take longer than in other markets and the fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (possibly several weeks or even longer). </div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Their economies tend to be less diversified than those of more developed countries. They typically have fewer medical and economic resources than more developed countries, and thus they may be less able to control or mitigate the effects of a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investing in a fund of funds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Your cost of investing in the fund, as a fund of funds, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that only invests directly in individual equity and fixed income securities. Because the fund will indirectly bear its pro rata share of the fees and expenses incurred by an underlying fund in which it invests, including advisory fees, an increase in fees and expenses of an underlying fund or a reallocation of the fund’s investments to underlying funds with higher fees or expenses will increase the fund’s total expenses. These expenses are in addition to management fees and other expenses that the fund bears directly in connection with its own operations. An underlying fund may change its investment objective or policies or may be reorganized or liquidated, which could cause the fund to withdraw its investment from such underlying fund at a time that is unfavorable to the fund. In addition, one underlying fund may buy the same securities that another underlying fund sells. Therefore, the fund would indirectly bear the costs of these trades without accomplishing any investment purpose. If underlying funds invest in the same or similar securities, the fund may indirectly bear concentration risk with respect to those investments. If the fund invests in an underlying fund that has recently commenced operations, there can be no assurance that such underlying fund will grow to or maintain an economically viable size, in which case the underlying fund’s board or adviser may determine to liquidate the underlying fund or the fund may indirectly bear higher expenses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Growth and value investing risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Growth or value securities as a group may be out of favor and underperform the overall equity market while the market favors other types of securities. Growth securities typically are very sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect future expectations. When it appears those expectations will not be met, the prices of growth securities typically fall. Growth securities may also be more volatile than other investments because they often do not pay dividends. The values of growth securities tend to go down when interest </span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"> rates rise because the rise in interest rates reduces the current value of future cash flows. The value approach to investing involves the risk that stocks may remain undervalued, undervaluation may become more severe, or perceived undervaluation may actually represent intrinsic value. A value stock may not increase in price as anticipated by the subadviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value and bid up the price or the factors that the subadviser believes will increase the price of the security do not occur or do not have the anticipated effect. </div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Hedge fund strategies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund, through the underlying funds, may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. The fund may invest in underlying funds employing proprietary investment strategies that are not fully disclosed, which may involve risks that are not anticipated. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and thus are exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">High yield (“junk”) bonds risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, typically have lower liquidity and are more difficult to value than higher grade bonds. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Illiquidity risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Some assets held by the fund may be or become impossible or difficult to sell and some assets that the fund wants to invest in may be impossible or difficult to purchase, particularly during times of market turmoil or due to adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer. These illiquid assets may also be volatile and difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid quickly. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers have been less willing to make markets in recent years. Federal banking regulations may also cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of certain securities, which may further decrease the fund’s ability to buy or sell such securities. During times of market turmoil, there have been, and may be, no buyers or sellers for securities in entire asset classes. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, or to try to limit losses, the fund may be forced to sell at a substantial loss or may not be able to sell at all. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer). The liquidity of certain assets, particularly of privately-issued and non‑investment grade mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt securities, may be difficult to ascertain and may change over time. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Issuer risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The market price of a security held by the fund can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole due to factors specifically relating to the security’s issuer, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, or major litigation or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Large capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors based on market and economic conditions. In addition, larger companies may not be able to attain the high growth rates of successful smaller companies and may be less capable of responding quickly to competitive challenges and industry changes. As a result, the fund’s value may not rise as much as, or may fall more than, the value of funds that focus on companies with smaller market capitalizations. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Long/short strategy risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> While the fund may invest in long positions and short positions, there is the risk that the investments will not perform as expected. A long/short strategy may result in greater losses than if the fund held only long positions, as losses on one type of position could more than offset gains on the other or a fund could lose money on both positions. A short position could result in unlimited losses if the fund does not own the asset sold short and it is unable to close out of the short sale or short position. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Portfolio management risk. </span><span style="font-family:arial">The value of your investment may decrease if the judgment of the fund’s adviser about the attractiveness, value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security, industry, sector or region, or about market movements, is incorrect or does not produce the desired results, or if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the models, tools and data used by the portfolio managers. Also, the portfolio managers may not succeed in maintaining a level of risk in the fund similar to that of its composite benchmark. In addition, the fund’s investment strategies or policies may change from time to time. Those changes may not lead to the results intended by the portfolio managers and could have an adverse effect on the value or performance of the fund. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Prepayment or call risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund may not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid to purchase the securities. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Real assets risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in royalty trusts, real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as changes and volatility in commodity prices, a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Investment in other investment companies risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Investments in other investment companies are subject to market and portfolio selection risk, as well as portfolio management risk. If the fund acquires shares of investment companies, including ones affiliated with the fund, shareholders bear both their proportionate share of expenses in the fund (including management and advisory fees) and, indirectly, the expenses of the investment companies. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Small and mid‑capitalization company risk.</span><span style="font-family:arial"> The fund will be exposed to additional risks as a result of its investments in the securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies. Small and mid‑capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors; may have limited product lines, operating histories, markets or financial resources; or may be dependent upon a limited management group. The prices of securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies generally are more volatile than those of large capitalization companies and are more likely to be adversely affected than large capitalization companies by changes in earnings results and investor expectations or poor economic or market conditions, including those experienced during a recession. Securities of small and mid‑capitalization companies may underperform large capitalization companies, may be harder to sell at times and at prices the portfolio managers believe appropriate and may have greater potential for losses. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#007dc1">Valuation risk. </span><span style="font-family:arial">The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. These differences may increase significantly and affect fund investments more broadly during periods of market volatility. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers. The valuation of the fund’s investments involves subjective judgment, which may prove to be incorrect. </span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information. </div> Performance <div style="margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 20% Russell 3000 Index and 80% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes certain information, including its current net asset value, available at www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class). Updated performance information can be obtained by calling the fund at 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863. </div><div style="margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style:italic">The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. </span></div><div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. <span style="font-style:italic">If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown.</span> Please refer to the separate account prospectus or information provided by your qualified plan for a description of the expenses associated with the account or plan. </div> The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year of Class I shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 20% Russell 3000 Index and 80% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of a broad measure of market performance, an additional index with characteristics relevant to the fund and a composite benchmark, which is a hypothetical representation of the performance of the portfolio’s major asset classes, consisting of 20% Russell 3000 Index and 80% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. www.franklintempleton.com/prospectus (select fund and share class) 877‑6LM‑FUND/656‑3863 The fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Fees paid by the separate accounts or qualified plans through which shares of the fund are sold are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart and table. If they were, the returns would be lower than those shown. Best Quarter 2023-12-31 0.0750 Worst Quarter 2022-06-30 -0.0737 Average annual total returns (%)(for periods ended December 31, 2025) 0.0939 0.0292 0.0444 2020-04-15 0.0904 0.0265 0.0416 2020-04-15 0.0730 -0.0036 0.0013 0.1715 0.1315 0.1849 0.0932 0.0234 0.0372 <div style="margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;">Important data provider notices and terms are available at www.franklintempletondatasources.com. Such information is subject to change. </div> Other expenses for Class II shares are estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Other expenses for Class II shares are estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. The manager has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse operating expenses (other than interest, brokerage, taxes, extraordinary expenses and acquired fund fees and expenses (fees and expenses of underlying funds)) so that the ratio of total annual fund operating expenses will not exceed 0.20% for Class I shares and 0.45% for Class II shares, subject to recapture as described below. These arrangements cannot be terminated prior to December 31, 2027 without the Board of Trustees’ consent. The manager is permitted to recapture amounts waived and/or reimbursed to a class during the same fiscal year in which the manager earned the fee or incurred the expense if the class’ total annual fund operating expenses have fallen to a level below the limits described above. In no case will the manager recapture any amount that would result, on any particular business day of the fund, in the class’ total annual fund operating expenses exceeding the applicable limits described above or any other lower limit then in effect. Total annual fund operating expenses (after waiving fees and/or reimbursing expenses, as applicable) are higher than the expense cap amounts for Class I and Class II as a result of acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. For Class II shares, for the period from the class’ inception date to December 31, 2025, the average annual total return of the Russell 3000 Index was 14.10%. For Class II shares, for the period from the class’ inception date to December 31, 2025, the average annual total return of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index was 1.71%. For Class II shares, for the period from the class’ inception date to December 31, 2025, the average annual total return of the Russell 1000 Index was 14.49%. For Class II shares, for the period from the class’ inception date to December 31, 2025, the average annual total return of the Composite Benchmark was 7.18%. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses. Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the fund’s financial highlights tables, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses.