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Investment Options

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  • With both the ORP and TDA, you have access to a variety of investment options from some of the country's leading money managers. Each option is designed to achieve a different investment objective, allowing you to tailor a portfolio to help meet your objectives. From the day you enroll, you have the flexibility to shift and divide your money among the various options. This applies not only to current contributions, but to past deposits as well.

    The chart below shows the investment options available in both plans. By clicking on the fund names listed, you can view a one-page fund fact sheet for each option. The sheets include information on fees and the fund's objective. For complete information about the funding options, please refer to the prospectuses. Read the information completely before you invest or send money.

    To better understand the investment option information provided to you, please carefully review this additional information about types of investment risks and glossary of terms and statistics found on the fund fact sheets. Documentation will also provide instructions about how to obtain any underlying fund prospectuses. Please click here.

    Investment Option

    Fund code

    Global/International  

    EuroPacific Growth Fund®
    Available 5/10/04

    573

    107

    ING Oppenheimer Global Portfolio - Initial Class
    Effective 4/15/05

    432

    104

    ING Julius Baer Foreign Portfolio
    Available 5/10/04

    830

    055

    228

    New Perspective Fund®
    Available 5/10/04

    818

    Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund – Class A
    Available 5/10/04
    Not available for Texas A&M plan participants

    190

    Aggressive Growth  

    AIM V.I. Capital Appreciation Fund +

    076

    Evergreen Special Values Fund
    Available 5/10/04

    191

    073

    ING T. Rowe Price Diversified Mid Cap Growth Portfolio - Initial Class
    Effective 4/15/05

    449

    440

    436

    435

    106

    ING VP Financial Services Portfolio
    Available 5/10/04

    826

    ING VP Global Science and Technology Portfolio
    Effective 2/17/04; formerly ING VP Technology Portfolio

    050

    053

    052

    081

    ING VP Natural Resources Trust
    Available 5/10/04

    103

    ING VP Real Estate Portfolio
    Available 5/10/04

    825

    042

    080

    075

    074

    Wanger Select
    Available 5/10/04

    820

    Wanger U.S. Smaller Companies
    Available 5/10/04

    821

    Growth  

    077

    078

    133

    109

    ING BlackRock Large Cap Growth Portfolio
    Effective 4/30/07; formerly ING American Century Select Portfolio

    783

    260

    100

    264

    111

    ING UBS U.S. Large Cap Equity Portfolio
    Effective 5/1/04; formerly ING MFS Research Equity Portfolio

    105

    040

    041

    The Growth Fund of America®
    Available 5/10/04

    572

    Growth & Income (Stocks)  

    079

    108

    ING Aeltus Enhanced Index Portfolio - Service Class
    Effective 1/15/04; formerly ING DSI Enhanced Index Portfolio – Service Class

    262

    263

    617

    437

    001

    035

    461

    226

    225

    224

    Washington Mutual Investors Fund SM
    Available 5/10/04

    819

    Growth & Income (Stocks & Bonds)  

    101

    ING GET Fund - Series G (closed to new deposits)

    062

    ING GET Fund - Series S (closed to new deposits)

    462

    616

    259

    008

    ING Van Kampen Equity and Income Portfolio – Initial Class
    Effective 4/15/05

    452

    Pax World Balanced Fund
    Available 5/10/04

    193

    Asset Allocation  

    032

    031

    033

    Income  

    439

    004

    ING Oppenheimer Strategic Income Portfolio- Initial Class
    Effective 4/15/05

    422

    PIMCO VIT Real Return Portfolio
    Available 5/10/04

    833

    Pioneer High Yield VCT Portfolio
    Available 5/10/04

    834

    Templeton Global Bond Fund
    Available 5/10/04

    178

    Stability of Principal  
    ING Fixed Account ++ (not available to new participants)

    002

    019

    GAA

    ING VP Money Market Portfolio +++
    An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although effective October 7, 2008, the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, there is no assurance it will be able to do so. While the fund's objective includes the preservation of capital, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund.

    003

    * VIP refers to Variable Insurance Products Fund. Fidelity Investments & Pyramid Design are registered service marks of FMR Corp.

    ** VP refers to Variable Portfolio.

    *** VA refers to Variable Account.

    + V.I. refers to Variable Investment.

    ++ This option is not a variable fund and is not registered with the SEC as an investment company. This option may be registered with the SEC as a security.

    +++ An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund is a money market fund which does not seek to maintain a stable $1.00 net asset value. While the fund's investment objective includes the preservation of capital, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund.

    You should consider the investment objectives, risks and charges, and expenses of the variable product and its underlying fund options carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information. You may obtain a prospectus by contacting your ING representative or the Company at the address listed below. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.

    Variable annuities through a retirement plan are long-term investments designed for retirement purposes. Early withdrawals prior to age 59˝ may be subject to a 10% federal penalty. Money distributed from the annuity will be taxed as ordinary income in the year the money is received. Account values fluctuate with market conditions and when surrendered, the principal may be worth more or less than its original amount invested. Tax deferral is provided by your employer’s plan and the tax deferral of the annuity does not provide any additional benefit. Annuities may be subject to additional fees and expenses to which other tax-qualified plan funding vehicles may not be subject. However, annuities provide features and benefits such as lifetime income payments and death benefits which may be valuable to you.

     

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