Ivy Funds VIP Core Equity

Summary Prospectus   |   April 30, 2015

Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its risks. You can find the Portfolio’s prospectus and other information about the Portfolio (including the Portfolio’s statement of additional information (SAI)) online at www.waddell.com/prospectus. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 888.WADDELL or by sending an e-mail request to IMCompliance@waddell.com. You can also get this information from your investment provider. The Portfolio’s prospectus dated April 30, 2015, and SAI dated April 30, 2015 (as each may be amended or supplemented) are incorporated herein by reference. This summary prospectus is intended for use in connection with certain life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts offered by certain select insurance companies (Participating Insurance Companies) and is not intended for use by other investors.

Objective

To seek to provide capital growth and appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The table below does not reflect any fees and expenses imposed under the variable life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts (collectively, Policies) through which this Portfolio is offered. See the Policy prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.

Shareholder Fees

(fees paid directly from your investment) N/A

Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management Fees	0.70%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees	0.25%
Other Expenses	0.05%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses	1.00%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the shares of the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other portfolios. This example does not reflect any fees and expenses imposed under the Policies.

The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the shares of the Portfolio for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. The costs are the same for each time period if you continue to hold your shares or if you redeem all your shares at the end of those periods. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

1 Year	3 Years		5 Years		10 Years
$102	$	318	$	552	$	1,225

Portfolio Turnover

The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual portfolio operating expenses or in the example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 57% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Ivy Funds VIP Core Equity seeks to achieve its objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities, primarily in common stocks of large capitalization companies that Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company (WRIMCO), the Portfolio’s investment manager, believes have dominant market positions in their industries. Large capitalization companies typically are companies with market capitalizations of at least $10 billion at the time of acquisition. The Portfolio invests in securities that have the potential for capital appreciation, or that WRIMCO expects to resist market decline. Although the Portfolio typically invests in securities issued by large capitalization companies, it may invest in securities issued by companies of any size. The Portfolio has the ability to invest in securities of companies across the valuation spectrum, including securities issued by growth and value companies.

WRIMCO believes that long-term earnings power relative to market expectations is an important component for stock performance. WRIMCO utilizes a top-down (assess the market environment) and a bottom-up (research individual issuers) analysis in its securities-selection process, and seeks to exploit what it believes to be catalysts for multi-year earnings growth in companies that it believes have strong or strengthening competitive advantages.

From a top-down perspective, WRIMCO seeks to identify current trends or themes which indicate specific industries that have the potential to experience multi-year growth. WRIMCO considers various thematic catalysts in its analysis, including major macro-economic and political forces, cyclical inflections, changes in consumer behavior and technology shifts. Once a trend or theme is identified, WRIMCO seeks to invest for the Portfolio in what it believes are dominant companies that will benefit from these trends or themes; including companies that WRIMCO believes have long-term earnings potential greater than market expectations.

Through its bottom-up stock selection, WRIMCO searches for companies for which it believes market expectations are too low with regard to the company’s ability to grow its business. In selecting securities for the Portfolio, WRIMCO may consider whether a company has new products to introduce, has undergone cost restructuring or a management change, or has improved its execution, among other factors.

The Portfolio typically holds a limited number of stocks (generally 40 to 50).

Many companies have diverse operations, with products or services in foreign markets. Therefore, the Portfolio may have indirect exposure to various foreign markets through investments in these companies.

Generally, in determining whether to sell a security, WRIMCO uses the same type of analysis that it uses in buying securities. Among other factors, WRIMCO considers whether, in its opinion, the security has fully appreciated according to WRIMCO’s forecast, has ceased to offer the prospect of significant growth potential, has had its competitive barriers diminished, has seen its earnings catalyst lose its impact, or has performed below WRIMCO’s expectations regarding the company’s long-term earnings potential. WRIMCO also may sell a security to reduce the Portfolio’s holding in that security if that issuer’s competitive advantage has diminished or if the Portfolio’s portfolio managers lose conviction in a previously identified trend or theme, to take advantage of what it believes are more attractive investment opportunities or to raise cash.

Principal Investment Risks

As with any mutual fund, the value of the Portfolio’s shares will change, and you could lose money on your investment. The Portfolio is not intended as a complete investment program.

A variety of factors can affect the investment performance of the Portfolio and prevent it from achieving its objective. These include:

n Catalyst Risk. Investing in companies in anticipation of a catalyst carries the risk that certain of such catalysts may not happen or the market may react differently than expected to such catalysts, in which case the Portfolio may experience losses.

n Company Risk. A company may be more volatile or perform worse than the overall market due to specific factors, such as adverse changes to its business or investor perceptions about the company.

n Foreign Exposure Risk. The securities of many companies may have significant exposure to foreign markets as a result of the company’s operations, products or services in those foreign markets. As a result, a company’s domicile and/or the markets in which the company’s securities trade may not be fully reflective of its sources of revenue. Such securities would be subject to some of the same risks as an investment in foreign securities, including the risk that political and economic events unique to a country or region will adversely affect those markets in which the company’s products or services are sold.

n Growth Stock Risk. Prices of growth stocks may be more sensitive to changes in current or expected earnings than the prices of other stocks. Growth stocks may be more volatile or not perform as well as value stocks or the stock market in general.

n Holdings Risk. The Portfolio typically holds a limited number of stocks (generally 40 to 50). As a result, the appreciation or depreciation of any one security held by the Portfolio may have a greater impact on the Portfolio’s net asset value (NAV) than it would if the Portfolio invested in a larger number of securities.

n Large Company Risk. Large capitalization companies may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. Large capitalization companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology, and also may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion. Although the securities of larger companies may be less volatile than those of companies with smaller market capitalizations, returns on investments in securities of large capitalization companies could trail the returns on investments in securities of smaller companies.

n Management Risk. Portfolio performance is primarily dependent on WRIMCO’s skill in evaluating and managing the Portfolio’s holdings. There can be no guarantee that its decisions will produce the desired results, and the Portfolio may not perform as well as other similar mutual funds.

n Market Risk. Markets can be volatile, and the Portfolio’s holdings can decline in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments or conditions that may cause a broad market decline. Different parts of the market, including different sectors and different types of securities can react differently to these developments. The financial crisis that started in 2008 continues to affect the U.S. and foreign economies and has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both U.S. and foreign. Global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the possibilities that conditions in one country or region may adversely affect issuers in another country or region, which in turn may adversely affect securities held by the Portfolio. These circumstances have also decreased liquidity in some markets and may continue to do so. In addition, certain events, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, war, and other geopolitical events, have led, and may in the future lead, to increased short-term market volatility and may have adverse long-term effects on world economies and markets generally.

n Theme Risk. Because the Portfolio’s investment strategy incorporates the identification of themes, the Portfolio’s performance may suffer if WRIMCO does not correctly identify such themes or if a theme develops in an unanticipated way.

n Value Stock Risk. Value stocks are stocks of companies that may have experienced adverse business or industry developments or may be subject to special risks that have caused the stocks to be out of favor and, in the opinion of WRIMCO, undervalued. The value of a security believed by WRIMCO to be undervalued may never reach what is believed to be its full value, such security’s value may decrease or such security may be appropriately priced.

Performance

The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio. The chart shows how performance has varied from year to year for the Portfolio. The table shows the average annual total returns for the Portfolio and also compares the performance with those of a broad-based securities market index and a Lipper peer group (a universe of mutual funds with investment objectives similar to that of the Portfolio). The performance results do not reflect any Policy-related fees and expenses, which would reduce the performance results.

Performance results include the effect of expense reduction arrangements for some or all of the periods shown. If those arrangements had not been in place, the performance results for those periods would have been lower.

The Portfolio’s past performance does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Current performance may be lower or higher. Please call 888.WADDELL for the Portfolio’s updated performance.

Chart of Year-by-Year Returns

as of December 31 each year

In the period shown in the chart, the highest quarterly return was 17.59% (the third quarter of 2009) and the lowest quarterly return was -20.48% (the fourth quarter of 2008).

Average Annual Total Returns

as of December 31, 2014	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Shares of Ivy Funds VIP Core Equity		9.68%		16.37%		9.64%
S&P 500 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		13.69%		15.45%		7.67%
Lipper Variable Annuity Large-Cap Core Funds Universe Average (net of fees and expenses)		11.51%		13.87%		7.21%

Investment Adviser

The Portfolio is managed by Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company (WRIMCO).

Portfolio Managers

Erik R. Becker, Senior Vice President of WRIMCO, and Gustaf C. Zinn, Senior Vice President of WRIMCO, have both managed the Portfolio since July 2006.

Purchase and Sale of Portfolio Shares

Shares of the Portfolio are currently sold only to separate accounts of Participating Insurance Companies to fund benefits payable under the Policies.

The Portfolio’s shares are redeemable. Shares are purchased or redeemed at the Portfolio’s NAV per share next calculated after the order is received in proper form on any business day. The Portfolio does not have initial and subsequent investment minimums. Please refer to your Policy prospectus for more information on purchasing and redeeming Portfolio shares.

Tax Information

Because the Portfolio’s only shareholders are separate accounts of Participating Insurance Companies, distributions the Portfolio makes of its net investment income and net realized gains, if any — most or all of which it intends to distribute annually — and redemptions or exchanges of Portfolio shares generally will not be taxable to its shareholders (or to the holders of the underlying Policies). See the prospectus for your Policy for further tax information.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and other Financial Intermediaries

The Portfolio and its related companies may make payments to a Participating Insurance Company (or its affiliates) or other financial intermediary for distribution and/or other services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the Participating Insurance Company or other financial intermediary and your financial advisor to recommend the Portfolio over another investment or by influencing a Participating Insurance Company to include the Portfolio as an underlying investment option in the Policy. The prospectus (or other offering document) for your Policy may contain additional information about these payments.

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