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Understanding your fund material


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Fund material designed for you

Track the progress of your investments with account statements that summarize all activity in your mutual fund accounts. Delaware Investments issues two types of statements:

  • Investment updates - sent quarterly.
  • Transaction confirmations - sent each time a transaction is made or action is taken on an account.

Expand your investment knowledge

Delaware Investments provides comprehensive materials on investment, making it easier to measure the funds' performance.

  • Annual and semiannual shareholder reports
    Get commentary from the fund's portfolio manager, an overview of the market's performance, and an update on the fund's activity and performance in a report issued every year. Semiannual reports provide a brief update issued between annual reports.
  • Prospectus
    Read the prospectus to get complete information about the fund's fees, expenses, investment objectives, risks, and performance.

How to read an investment update statement


1. Account services includes financial advisor and Delaware Investments contact information.
2. Portfolio summary lists any reinvested earnings and the change in the investment's market value since the last statement.
3. Personal portfolio rate of return shows how the portfolio has performed year-to-date and since first investing with Delaware Investments.*

4. Asset allocation and portfolio summary includes tables and graphs that illustrate how investments with Delaware Investments are allocated.
5. Investment earnings summary provides year-to-date information about any ordinary income or long-term capital gains.

6. Transactions lists account activity since the last statement. Your Personal Rate of Return shows how each of the portfolio's Delaware Investments funds has performed year-to-date and since first investing with Delaware Investments.*

7. Historical fund performance allows you to compare each fund's total return over 1-, 5-, and 10-year periods and since its inception.

*For accounts established before 1995, January 3, 1995 is used as the inception date.

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