The Portfolio seeks to provide total return.

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Portfolio. The table and the example do not include any fees or sales charges imposed by your variable annuity or variable life insurance contract. If they were included, your costs would be higher. Please refer to your variable contract prospectus for information on the separate account fees and expenses associated with your contract.

(1)  The "Other Expenses" for Class III shares are based on estimated amounts.

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. You would pay the same expenses if you did not redeem your shares. However, each variable contract and separate account involves fees and expenses that are not included in the Example. If these fees and expenses were included in the Example, your overall expenses would be higher. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio's operating expenses remain the same (except that the Example reflects any applicable contractual fee waivers/expense reimbursement arrangements for only the first year). Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or instruments (or "turns over" its portfolio). These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio's performance. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. During the most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the Portfolio's portfolio turnover rate was 76% of the average value of its portfolio.

Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio seeks to invest at least 80% of its assets in high yield bonds and investments linked to high yield bonds. The high yield securities (commonly called "junk bonds") acquired by the Portfolio will generally be in the lower rating categories of the major rating agencies (BB or lower by Standard & Poor's or Fitch Ratings, Inc. or Ba or lower by Moody's Investor Services) or will be determined by the Portfolio's sub-adviser, BlackRock Investment Management, LLC ("BlackRock" or the "Sub-Adviser"), to be of similar quality. Split rated bonds will be considered to have the median credit rating received if a credit rating is received from three rating agencies or, if a credit rating is received from two rating agencies, the lower credit rating of the two ratings received. The Portfolio will consist primarily of fixed income securities of companies with similar capitalizations of the companies included in the ICE BofA BB-B U.S. High Yield Constrained Index. However, the Portfolio may invest in securities outside the ICE BofA BB-B U.S. High Yield Constrained Index capitalization range. The Portfolio may also invest in convertible and preferred securities. Convertible debt securities will be counted toward the Portfolio's 80% policy to the extent they have characteristics similar to the securities included within that policy.

To add additional diversification, the Sub-Adviser can invest in a wide range of securities including corporate bonds and mezzanine investments. The Portfolio may invest in securities of any rating, and may invest up to 10% of its assets (measured at the time of investment) in distressed securities that are in default or the issuers of which are in bankruptcy.

The Portfolio may engage in frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its principal investment strategies.

The Portfolio may also invest in securities and derivative contracts, including options, swap agreements, futures, and U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents, including, without limitation, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, and time deposits, as determined by the Sub-Adviser.

The Sub-Adviser utilizes a proprietary quantitative model that systematically tracks and ranks the characteristics of bonds of high yield issuers located in the United States based on an analysis of a wide range of factors, such as relative value, market sentiment, and fundamental insights.

The bar chart and performance table below show the variability of the Portfolio's returns, which is some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio. The bar chart shows performance of the Portfolio's Class I shares for each full calendar year since the Portfolio's inception and the table shows how the average annual total returns of the Portfolio's Class I shares compared with the returns of two indexes. The ICE BofA BB-B U.S. High Yield Constrained Index serves as the Portfolio's performance index because the Adviser believes it is more representative of the Portfolio's investment strategy. The Bloomberg US Universal Bond Index serves as the Portfolio's regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The performance in the bar chart and the table does not include the effect of variable contract charges. If variable contract charges had been included, performance would have been lower. Because all of the Portfolio's shares are invested in the same portfolio of securities, returns for the Portfolio's Class II shares differ only to the extent that the classes do not have the same expenses. You should be aware that the Portfolio's past performance may not be an indication of how the Portfolio will perform in the future.