Real Estate Securities

(TRRSX)

The fund seeks to obtain a favorable long-term total return through both capital appreciation and current income by investing primarily in equity and fixed-income securities of companies principally engaged in or related to the real estate industry.

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Net asset value as of 07/02/2009: $5.44
Total return year-to-date as of 07/02/2009: -17.69%
Fund's net invested assets as of 06/30/2009: $319.09 million
Gross Expense Ratio: 0.81%
Net Expense Ratio*: 0.81%
Inception date: 10/01/2002
Investment class: Real Estate

Performance Comparison
	Performance Data as of 07/02/2009			Average Annual Total Returns as of 06/30/2009
	Net Asset Value	Net Change	YTD Return	1 Year	3 Year	5 Year	10 Year	Since Inception^¡
Real Estate Securities	$5.44	-5.72%	-17.69%	-44.41%	-19.30%	-4.51%	--	2.88%
FTSE NAREIT Equity Index^†	--	-5.88%	-16.35%	--	--	--	--	--

The performance data quoted represents past performance, and is no guarantee of future results. Your returns and the principal value of your investment will fluctuate so that your shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted above.

The risks that the fund is subject to include special risks including market risk, company risk, real estate investing risk, real estate securities risk, interest rate risk, small-cap risk, credit risk, income volatility risk, prepayment risk, extension risk and foreign investment risks.

*	The net annual expense ratio represents expenses after reimbursement and waivers, while the gross annual expense ratio represents expenses without any reimbursements and waivers. These expense reimbursement arrangements will continue through at least April 30, 2010 for the Index Funds and January 31, 2010 for the other Funds (except for the 0.25% service fee that pays for expenses related to offering Retirement Class shares on a retirement or other distribution platform), and can only be changed with approval of the Board of Trustees. Without these waivers and reimbursements, the Fund expenses would be higher and their performance would have been lower.
¡	From November 30, 2007 on, the since inception performance shown is computed from the inception date of the fund (the date on which the fund became publicly available). Previously, since inception performance for this fund was computed from the net asset value per share on the day prior to the inception date.
†	The NAREIT Index is an unmanaged, market capitalization weighted index of all publicly-traded REITs that invest predominantly in the equity ownership of real estate. The index is designed to reflect the performance of all publicly-traded equity REITs as a whole. You cannot invest directly in this index.

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