How the Fund invests

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in a diversified portfolio of U.S. and foreign bonds or other debt securities of varying maturities and other instruments that provide investment exposure to such debt securities, including forwards or derivatives such as options, futures contracts or swap agreements.

Investment process

Combination of Top-Down and Bottom-Up

The top holdings listed exclude cash and cash equivalents. Holdings are subject to change. The holdings listed should not be considered recommendations to purchase or sell a particular security. The top holdings may include derivatives held to manage certain portfolio exposures, so notional weightings may exceed 100% of total net assets.

¹quarter holdings are based on the fiscal year

Performance

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Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. Current performance data may be higher or lower than actual data quoted. For the most current month-end performance data please call (855) 379-9186.

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Returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

¹Fund inception date of July 6, 2015.

²Maximum Offering Price (MOP) for Class A shares includes the Fund's maximum sales charge of 4.50%. Performance shown at NAV does not include these sales charges and would have been lower had it been taken into account.

³Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index covers the U.S. dollar denominated investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable bond market of securities. The index includes bonds from the Treasury, government-related and corporate securities, agency fixed rate and hybrid adjustable mortgage pass through securities, asset-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities.

As of 6/15/2018, the 1290 Diversified Bond Fund was restructured, which included, among other things, the Fund adopting a new broad-based benchmark that is reflective of its universe of holdings. The previous benchmark, the ICE BofAML USD 3-Month Deposit Offered Rate Constant Maturity Index was the comparable benchmark under the previous manager and strategy, effective from inception on 7/6/2015 thru 6/15/2018.

⁴Pursuant to a contract, Equitable Investment Management, LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to make payments or waive its and its affiliates' management, administrative and other fees to limit the expenses of the Fund through April 30, 2026 (unless the Board of Trustees consents to an earlier revision or termination of this arrangement) (“Expense Limitation Arrangement”) so that the annual operating expenses of the Fund (exclusive of taxes, interest, brokerage commissions, capitalized expenses (other than offering costs), fees and expenses of other investment companies in which the Fund invests, 12b-1 fees, dividend and interest expenses on securities sold short, and extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business) do not exceed an annual rate of average daily net assets of 0.50% for Class A shares, Class T shares, Class I shares, and Class R shares of the Fund. The Expense Limitation Arrangement may be terminated by the Adviser at any time after April 30, 2026. The Adviser may be reimbursed the amount of any such payments or waivers in the future provided that the payments or waivers are reimbursed within three years of the payments or waivers being recorded and the Fund’s expense ratio, after the reimbursement is taken into account, does not exceed the Fund’s expense cap at the time of the waiver or the Fund’s expense cap at the time of the reimbursement, whichever is lower. The total annual fund operating expense ratios after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement for Class A shares, Class T shares, and Class R shares, as shown in the table, are higher than the Fund’s expense cap because these ratios include 12b-1 fees and certain other expenses, as noted above, that are excluded from the Expense Limitation Arrangement.

Fund resources

• Fact Sheet
• Quarterly Commentary
• Q&A
• Fund Profile

• Information Statement
• Prospectus
• Annual Report
• Semi-Annual Report

Risks: Market. The Fund is subject to the risk that the securities markets will move down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, based on overall economic conditions and other factors, which may negatively affect Fund performance. The value of a security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the market as a whole. Any issuer of securities may perform poorly, causing the value of its securities to decline. Poor performance may be caused by a variety of factors. Credit. The Fund is subject to credit risk, the risk that the issuer or guarantor of a fixed income security is unable or unwilling to make timely interest or principal payments. Interest Rate. Changes in interest rates may affect the yield, liquidity and value of investments in income producing or debt securities. Non-Investment Grade Securities. Bonds rated below BBB by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings or Fitch Ratings, Ltd., or below Baa by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (or, if unrated, determined by the investment manager to be of comparable quality) are speculative in nature and are subject to additional risk factors such as increased possibility of default, illiquidity of the security, and changes in value based on changes in interest rates. Non-investment grade bonds, sometimes referred to as “junk bonds,” are usually issued by companies without long track records of sales and earnings, or by those companies with questionable credit strength. Derivatives. The Fund’s investments in derivatives may rise or fall in value more rapidly than other investments and may reduce the Fund’s returns and increase the volatility of the Fund’s net asset value. Foreign Securities. Investments in foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign markets may be less liquid, more volatile and subject to less government supervision and regulation than U.S. markets. Liquidity. From time to time, there may be little or no active trading market for a particular investment in which the Fund may invest or is invested. In such a market, the value of such an investment and the Fund’s share price may fall dramatically. Portfolio Management. The Fund is subject to the risk that strategies used by an investment manager and its securities selections fail to produce the intended results.