GMO Trust | GMO International Equity Fund

GMO INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND

(formerly known as GMO International Intrinsic Value Fund)

Investment objective

High total return.

Fees and expenses

The table below describes the fees and expenses that you may pay for each class of shares if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Annual Fund operating expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses GMO Trust GMO International Equity Fund		Class II	Class III	Class IV
Management fee	[1]	0.50%	0.50%	0.50%
Shareholder service fee	[1]	0.22%	0.15%	0.09%
Other expenses		0.04%	0.04%	0.04%
Total annual operating expenses		0.76%	0.69%	0.63%
Expense reimbursement/waiver	[1]	(0.04%)	(0.04%)	(0.04%)
Total annual operating expenses after expense reimbursement/waiver		0.72%	0.65%	0.59%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, regardless of whether or not you redeem your shares at the end of such periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same as those shown in the table. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example GMO Trust GMO International Equity Fund (USD $)	1 Year		3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class II	74	[1]	241	423	949
Class III	66	[1]	219	385	866
Class IV	60	[1]	200	352	794

Expense Example, No Redemption GMO Trust GMO International Equity Fund (USD $)	1 Year		3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class II	74	[1]	241	423	949
Class III	66	[1]	219	385	866
Class IV	60	[1]	200	352	794

Portfolio turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities. A higher portfolio turnover rate may result in higher transaction costs and, when Fund shares are held in a taxable account, higher taxes. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During its fiscal year ended February 28, 2013, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate (excluding short-term investments) was 40% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal investment strategies

The Manager seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment objective by investing the Fund’s portfolio primarily in equity securities that the Manager believes will provide a higher return than the MSCI EAFE Value Index.

The Manager determines which securities the Fund should buy or sell based on its evaluation of companies’ published financial information and corporate behavior, securities’ prices, equity and bond markets, and the overall economy.

In selecting securities for the Fund, the Manager uses a combination of investment methods to identify securities that the Manager believes have positive return potential relative to other securities in the Fund’s investment universe. Some of these methods evaluate individual securities or groups of securities based on the ratio of their price to historical financial information and forecasted financial information, such as book value, cash flow and earnings, and a comparison of these ratios to industry or market averages or to their own history. Other methods focus on patterns of information, such as price movement or volatility of a security or groups of securities relative to the Fund’s investment universe or corporate behavior of an issuer. The Manager also uses multi-year return forecasts for asset classes and other groups of securities as an input to the investment process and may adjust the Fund’s portfolio for factors such as position size, market capitalization, and exposure to factors such as industry, sector, country, or currency. The factors considered and investment methods used by the Manager can change over time. The Manager does not manage the Fund to, or control the Fund’s risk relative to, any securities index or securities benchmark.

As a substitute for direct investments in equity securities, the Fund may use exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). The Fund also may use derivatives and ETFs: (i) in an attempt to reduce investment exposures (which may result in a reduction below zero); (ii) in an attempt to adjust elements of the Fund’s investment exposure; and (iii) as a substitute for securities lending. Derivatives used may include futures, options, forward currency contracts, and swap contracts. In addition, the Fund may lend its portfolio securities.

The Fund typically invests directly and indirectly (e.g., through underlying funds or derivatives) in equity securities of companies tied economically to countries other than the U.S., including both developed and emerging countries. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests directly and indirectly at least 80% of its assets in equity investments (“Name Policies”). The terms “equity securities” and “equity investments” refer to direct and indirect investments in common stocks and other stock-related securities, such as preferred stocks, convertible securities, depositary receipts, and exchange-traded equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) and income trusts.

The Fund also may invest in U.S. Treasury Fund and money market funds that are unaffiliated with GMO.

Principal risks of investing in the Fund

The value of the Fund’s shares changes with the value of the Fund’s investments. Many factors can affect this value, and you may lose money by investing in the Fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. For a more complete discussion of these risks, see “Description of Principal Risks.”

• Market Risk – Equities – The market prices of equities may decline due to factors affecting the issuing companies, their industries, or the economy and equity markets generally. If the Fund purchases equities at a discount from their value as determined by the Manager, the Fund runs the risk that the market prices of these investments will not appreciate or will decline for a variety of reasons, one of which may be the Manager’s overestimation of the value of those investments. The Fund also may purchase equities that typically trade at higher multiples of current earnings than other securities, and the market prices of these investments often are more sensitive to changes in future earnings expectations than the market prices of equities trading at lower multiples. Declines in stock market prices generally are likely to reduce the net asset value of the Fund’s shares.

• Management and Operational Risk – The Fund runs the risk that GMO’s investment techniques will fail to produce desired results. The Fund’s portfolio managers may use quantitative analyses and models, and any imperfections, errors, or limitations in those analyses and models could affect the ability of the portfolio managers to implement the Fund’s strategies. By necessity, these analyses and models make simplifying assumptions that limit their efficacy. Models that appear to explain prior market data can fail to predict future market events. Further, the data used in models may be inaccurate and may not include the most recent information about a company or a security. The Fund also runs the risk that GMO’s assessment of an investment may be wrong or that deficiencies in GMO’s or another service provider’s internal systems or controls will cause losses for the Fund or impair Fund operations.

• Non-U.S. Investment Risk – The market prices of many non-U.S. securities fluctuate more than those of U.S. securities. Many non-U.S. markets are less stable, smaller, less liquid, and less regulated than U.S. markets, and the cost of trading in those markets often is higher than in U.S. markets. Non-U.S. portfolio transactions generally involve higher commission rates, transfer taxes, and custodial costs than similar transactions in the U.S. In addition, the Fund may be subject to non-U.S. taxes, including potentially on a retroactive basis, on (i) capital gains it realizes or dividends or interest it receives on non-U.S. investments, (ii) transactions in those investments, and (iii) the repatriation of proceeds generated from the sale of those investments. Also, many non-U.S. markets require a license for the Fund to invest directly in those markets, and the Fund is subject to the risk that it could not invest if its license were terminated or suspended. In some non-U.S. markets, prevailing custody and trade settlement practices (e.g., the requirement to pay for securities prior to receipt) expose the Fund to credit and other risks with respect to participating brokers, custodians, clearing banks or other clearing agents, escrow agents and issuers. Further, adverse changes in investment regulations, capital requirements or exchange controls could adversely affect the value of the Fund’s investments. These and other risks (e.g., nationalization, expropriation or other confiscation of assets of non-U.S. issuers) tend to be greater for investments in companies tied economically to emerging countries, the economies of which tend to be more volatile than the economies of developed countries.

• Currency Risk – Fluctuations in exchange rates can adversely affect the market value of the Fund’s non-U.S. currency holdings and investments denominated in non-U.S. currencies.

• Derivatives Risk – The use of derivatives involves the risk that their value may not move as expected relative to the value of the underlying assets, rates, or indices. Derivatives also present other risks, including market risk, currency risk, and counterparty risk.

• Counterparty Risk – The Fund runs the risk that the counterparty to a derivatives contract, a clearing member used by the Fund to hold a cleared derivatives contract, or a borrower of the Fund’s securities will be unable or unwilling to make timely settlement payments, return the Fund’s margin or otherwise honor its obligations.

• Leveraging Risk – The use of derivatives and securities lending creates leverage. Leverage increases the Fund’s losses when the value of its investments (including derivatives) declines.

• Smaller Company Risk – Smaller companies may have limited product lines, markets, or financial resources, may lack the competitive strength of larger companies, or may lack managers with experience or depend on a few key employees. The securities of small- and mid-cap companies often are less widely held and trade less frequently and in lesser quantities, and their market prices often fluctuate more, than the securities of companies with larger market capitalizations.

• Focused Investment Risk – Focusing investments in countries, regions, sectors, companies, or industries with high positive correlations to one another creates more risk than if the Fund’s investments were less correlated.

• Market Disruption and Geopolitical Risk – Geopolitical and other events may disrupt securities markets and adversely affect global economies and markets. Those events, as well as other changes in non-U.S. and U.S. economic and political conditions, could adversely affect the value of the Fund’s investments.

• Large Shareholder Risk – To the extent that a large number of shares of the Fund is held by a single shareholder (e.g., an institutional investor or another GMO Fund) or a group of shareholders with a common investment strategy (e.g., GMO asset allocation accounts), the Fund is subject to the risk that a redemption by those shareholders of all or a large portion of their Fund shares will disrupt the Fund’s operations.

Performance

The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s annual total returns from year to year for the periods indicated and by comparing the Fund’s average annual total returns for different calendar periods with those of the Fund’s benchmark and an additional broad-based international stock index selected by the Manager. After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant if you are tax-exempt or if you hold your Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements (such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account). After-tax returns are shown for Class III shares only; after-tax returns for other classes will vary. Past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future performance.

Annual Total Returns/Class III Shares
Years Ending December 31

Highest Quarter: 22.40% (2Q2009)
Lowest Quarter: – 19.13% (3Q2011)
Year-to-Date (as of 3/31/13): 2.15%

Average Annual Total Returns
Periods Ending December 31, 2012

Average Annual Total Returns GMO Trust GMO International Equity Fund	1 Year	5 Years	10 Years	Incept.	Inception Date
Class II	14.31%	(4.39%)	8.46%	6.25%	Sep. 26, 1996
Class II MSCI EAFE Value Index (Fund benchmark) (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.69%	(4.34%)	8.57%	5.28%	Sep. 26, 1996
Class II MSCI EAFE Index (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.32%	(3.69%)	8.21%	4.27%	Sep. 26, 1996
Class III	14.43%	(4.32%)	8.53%	7.87%	Mar. 31, 1987
Class III Return After Taxes on Distributions	14.01%	(4.87%)	7.64%	6.31%	Mar. 31, 1987
Class III Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	10.21%	(3.58%)	7.64%	6.34%	Mar. 31, 1987
Class III MSCI EAFE Value Index (Fund benchmark) (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.69%	(4.34%)	8.57%	6.83%	Mar. 31, 1987
Class III MSCI EAFE Index (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.32%	(3.69%)	8.21%	5.01%	Mar. 31, 1987
Class IV	14.47%	(4.27%)	8.60%	6.69%	Jan. 09, 1998
Class IV MSCI EAFE Value Index (Fund benchmark) (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.69%	(4.34%)	8.57%	5.63%	Jan. 09, 1998
Class IV MSCI EAFE Index (returns reflect no deduction of fees or expenses, but are net of withholding tax on dividend reinvestments)	17.32%	(3.69%)	8.21%	4.57%	Jan. 09, 1998

[1] Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (the "Manager" or "GMO") has contractually agreed to reimburse the Fund for the following expenses: audit expenses, fund accounting expenses, pricing service expenses, expenses of non-investment related tax services, transfer agency expenses, expenses of non-investment related legal services provided to the Fund by or at the direction of the Manager, federal securities law filing expenses, printing expenses, state and federal registration fees and custody expenses. The Manager also has agreed to waive or reduce the Fund's management fees and shareholder service fees to the extent necessary to offset the management fees and shareholder service fees directly or indirectly paid to the Manager as a result of the Fund's direct or indirect investments in other GMO Funds. Management fees and shareholder service fees will not be waived below zero. This reimbursement and waiver will continue through at least June 30, 2014, and may not be terminated prior to this date without the action or consent of the Fund's Board of Trustees.

[1] After reimbursement

[1] After reimbursement