Diversified Emerging Markets Category: Diversified emerging markets portfolios tend to divide their assets among 20 or more nations, although they tend to focus on the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America rather than on those of the Middle East, Africa, or Europe. These portfolios invest predominantly in emerging market equities, but some funds also invest in both equities and fixed income investments from emerging markets.

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The MSCI Emerging Markets Index (net) is a free float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets. The index is calculated on a total return basis with net dividends reinvested. The index is unmanaged, its returns do not reflect any fees, expenses, or sales charges, and is not available for direct investment.

Important Risk Considerations

Virtus Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund^1,2,3,4,5,10, Virtus KAR Developing Markets Fund^1,3,4,6,10, Virtus KAR Emerging Markets Small-Cap Fund^1,3,4,6,8,10, Virtus NFJ Emerging Markets Value Fund^1,2,3,4,10, Virtus SGA Emerging Markets Growth Fund^1,3,4,7,9,10, Virtus Vontobel Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund^1,3,4,7,10

¹Market Volatility: The value of the securities in the portfolio may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be short- or long-term. Local, regional, or global events such as war (e.g., Russia's invasion of Ukraine), acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic) or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the portfolio and its investments, including hampering the ability of the portfolio's manager(s) to invest the portfolio's assets as intended. ²Issuer Risk: The portfolio will be affected by factors specific to the issuers of securities and other instruments in which the portfolio invests, including actual or perceived changes in the financial condition or business prospects of such issuers. ³Equity Securities: The market price of equity securities may be adversely affected by financial market, industry, or issuer-specific events. Focus on a particular style or on small or medium-sized companies may enhance that risk. ⁴Foreign & Emerging Markets: Investing in foreign securities, especially in emerging markets, subjects the portfolio to additional risks such as increased volatility, currency fluctuations, less liquidity, and political, regulatory, economic, and market risk. ⁵Focused Investments: To the extent the portfolio focuses its investments on a limited number of issuers, sectors, industries or geographic regions, it may be subject to increased risk and volatility. ⁶Non-Diversified: The portfolio is not diversified and may be more susceptible to factors negatively impacting its holdings to the extent the portfolio invests more of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than would a diversified portfolio. ⁷Geographic Concentration: A portfolio that focuses its investments in a particular geographic location will be sensitive to financial, economic, political, and other events negatively affecting that location. ⁸Industrial Concentration: Because the portfolio is presently heavily weighted in the industrial sector, it will be impacted by that sector's performance more than a portfolio with broader sector diversification. ⁹Sector Focused Investing: Events negatively affecting a particular industry or market sector in which the portfolio focuses its investments may cause the value of the portfolio to decrease. ¹⁰Prospectus: For additional information on risks, please see the fund’s prospectus.

Investment Terms

Weighted average market capitalization: The total dollar market value of a company’s outstanding shares, weighted in proportion to position size within the fund. Active share: The percentage of holdings in a fund or portfolio that differs from a benchmark index. An active share of 0 would indicate that a fund holds the same securities in the same proportion as its index, while an active share of 100 would indicate no overlapping holdings. Standard deviation: Measures the variability of returns around the average return for an investment portfolio. Sharpe ratio: Measures the efficiency, or excess return per unit of risk, of a manager’s returns. The greater the Sharpe ratio, the better the portfolio’s risk adjusted return. 

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