497K 1 d897934d497k.htm THRIVENT MUNICIPAL BOND FUND - CLASS A Thrivent Municipal Bond Fund - Class A
FEBRUARY 28, 2020 (AS SUPPLEMENTED MARCH 31, 2020)
CLASS A SHARES
AAMBX
Thrivent Municipal Bond Fund
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS
This Summary Prospectus is designed to provide investors with key information about the Fund in a clear and concise format. Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s complete prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus, reports to shareholders, and other information about the Fund online at ThriventFunds.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 800-847-4836 or by sending an email request to ContactUs@ThriventFunds.com. If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the prospectus and other information will also be available from your financial intermediary. The Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, both dated February 28, 2020 are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website, phone number or email address noted above.
Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Funds’ annual and semi-annual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the reports will be made available on the Funds’ website (ThriventFunds.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website address to access the report.
If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you do not need to take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications from a Fund electronically by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) where you purchased shares or, if you purchased shares through Thrivent Financial, by enrolling at Thrivent.com/gopaperless or, if you purchased directly online, by enrolling at ThriventFunds.com.
You may elect to receive all future shareholder reports in paper free of charge. If you invest directly with a Fund, you can call 800-847-4836 to let us know you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive shareholder reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account. If you invest through a financial intermediary, you can contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports.

 

Thrivent Municipal Bond Fund
AAMBX

Investment Objective
Thrivent Municipal Bond Fund (the "Fund") seeks a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes, consistent with capital preservation.
Fees and Expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Class A shares of a fund or funds of Thrivent Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the “Class A Shares” section on pages 97 through 98 of the Fund’s prospectus and the “Sales Charges” section under the heading “Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Shares” of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.
SHAREHOLDER FEES
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed On Purchases (as a % of offering price) 4.50%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lower of the original purchase price or current net asset value)1 1.00%
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of
the value of your investment)
Management Fees 0.40%
Distribution and Shareholder Service (12b-1) Fees 0.25%
Other Expenses 0.10%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.75%
1 When you invest $1,000,000 or more, a deferred sales charge of 1% will apply to shares redeemed within one year.
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 and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual cost may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your cost would be:
1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
$523 $679 $848 $1,338
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund 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 and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 31% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Strategies
Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in municipal bonds, the income of which is exempt from federal income taxation. The Fund may count securities that generate income subject to the alternative minimum tax toward the 80% investment requirement.
The Fund’s Adviser uses fundamental, quantitative, and technical investment research techniques to determine what municipal bonds to buy and sell. Fundamental techniques assess a security’s value based on an issuer’s financial profile, management, and business prospects while quantitative and technical techniques involve a more data-oriented analysis of financial information, market trends and price movements. At the time of purchase, the Adviser generally buys investment-grade municipal bonds or unrated bonds it determines to be of comparable quality. The Fund may also invest in debt securities that, at the time of purchase, are rated within or below the “BBB” major rating category by S&P or Fitch, or the “Baa” major rating category by Moody’s, or are unrated but considered to be of comparable quality by the Adviser. The Fund uses an interest rate management technique that includes the purchase and sale of U.S. Treasury futures contracts for the purpose of managing the duration, or interest rate risk, of the Fund.
Principal Risks
The Fund is subject to the following principal investment risks, which you should review carefully and in entirety. The Fund may not achieve its investment objective and you could lose money by investing in the Fund.
Municipal Bond Risk. The Fund’s performance may be affected by political and economic conditions at the state, regional or federal level. These may include budgetary problems, decline in the tax base and other factors that may cause rating agencies to downgrade the credit ratings on certain issues. Bonds may also exhibit price fluctuations due to changes in interest rate or bond yield levels. Some municipal bonds may be repaid prior to maturity if interest rates decrease. As a result, the value of the Fund’s shares may fluctuate significantly in the short term.
 
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Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk is the risk that prices of debt securities decline in value when interest rates rise for debt securities that pay a fixed rate of interest. Debt securities with longer durations (a measure of price sensitivity of a bond or bond fund to changes in interest rates) or maturities (i.e., the amount of time until a bond’s issuer must pay its principal or face value) tend to be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than debt securities with shorter durations or maturities. Changes by the Federal Reserve to monetary policies could affect interest rates and the value of some securities. In addition, the phase out of LIBOR (the offered rate for short-term Eurodollar deposits between major international banks) by the end of 2021 could lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in certain markets that currently rely on LIBOR to determine interest rates.
Tax Risk. Changes in federal income tax laws or rates may affect both the net asset value of the Fund and the taxable equivalent interest generated from securities in the Fund. Since the Fund may invest in municipal securities subject to the federal alternative minimum tax without limitation, the Fund may not be suitable for investors who already are or could be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax.
Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a debt security to which the Fund is exposed may no longer be able or willing to pay its debt. As a result of such an event, the debt security may decline in price and affect the value of the Fund.
Futures Contract Risk. The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem with the value of the underlying instrument. The price of futures can be highly volatile; using them could lower total return, and the potential loss from futures can exceed the Fund’s initial investment in such contracts. In addition, the value of the futures contract may not accurately track the value of the underlying instrument.
Market Risk. Over time, securities markets generally tend to move in cycles with periods when security prices rise and periods when security prices decline. The value of the Fund’s investments may move with these cycles and, in some instances, increase or decrease more than the applicable market(s) as measured by the Fund’s benchmark index(es). The securities markets may also decline because of factors that affect a particular industry.
High Yield Risk. High yield securities – commonly known as “junk bonds” – to which the Fund is exposed are considered predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s continuing ability to make principal and interest payments. If the issuer of the security is in default with respect to interest or principal payments, the value of the Fund may be negatively affected. High yield securities generally have a less liquid resale market.
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity is the ability to sell a security relatively quickly for a price that most closely reflects the actual value of the security. Brokers and dealers have decreased their inventories of municipal bonds in recent years. This could limit the Adviser’s ability to buy or sell these bonds and increase price volatility and trading costs, particularly during periods of economic or market stress. In addition, recent federal banking regulations may cause certain dealers to reduce their inventories of municipal bonds,
which may further decrease the Adviser’s ability to buy or sell bonds. As a result, the Adviser may be forced to accept a lower price to sell a security, to sell other securities to raise cash, or to give up an investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on performance.
Investment Adviser Risk. The Fund is actively managed and the success of its investment strategy depends significantly on the skills of the Adviser in assessing the potential of the investments in which the Fund invests. This assessment of investments may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance, even in rising markets. There is also no guarantee that the Adviser will be able to effectively implement the Fund’s investment objective.
Health Crisis Risk. The global pandemic outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has resulted in substantial market volatility and global business disruption. The duration and full effects of the outbreak are uncertain and may result in trading suspensions and market closures, limit liquidity and the ability of the Fund to process shareholder redemptions, and negatively impact Fund performance. The COVID-19 outbreak and future pandemics could affect the global economy in ways that cannot be foreseen and may exacerbate other types of risks, negatively impacting the value of the Fund.
Performance
The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for one-, five- and ten-year periods compared to a broad-based securities market index. The index is the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index, which is a market-value-weighted index of investment-grade municipal bonds with maturities of one year or more. Call 800-847-4836 or visit ThriventFunds.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.
The bar chart includes the effects of Fund expenses, but not sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower than those shown. The table includes the effects of Fund expenses and maximum sales charges and assumes that you sold your shares at the end of the period. The 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 an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Returns after taxes on distributions and redemptions may be higher than before tax returns and/or after taxes on distributions shown because they reflect the tax benefit of capital losses realized in the redemption of Fund shares.
How the Fund has performed in the past (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how it will perform in the future. Performance information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance over time.
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YEAR-BY-YEAR TOTAL RETURN
Best Quarter: Q3 '11 +4.04%
Worst Quarter: Q4 '10 (4.57)%
    
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS
(PERIODS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2019)
Thrivent Municipal Bond Fund 1 Year 5 Years 10 Years
Class A (before taxes) 2.29% 1.98% 3.46%
(after taxes on distributions) 2.28% 1.97% 3.45%
(after taxes on distributions and redemptions) 2.63% 2.26% 3.49%
Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
7.54% 3.53% 4.34%
Management
Investment Adviser(s)
The Fund is managed by Thrivent Asset Management, LLC (“Thrivent Asset Mgt.” or the “Adviser”).
Portfolio Manager(s)
Janet I. Grangaard, CFA is primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund. Ms. Grangaard has served
as portfolio manager of the Fund since April 2002. She has been with Thrivent Financial since 1988 and has served as a portfolio manager since 1994.
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
You may purchase, redeem or exchange shares of the Fund through certain broker-dealers.
The minimum initial investment requirement for this Fund is $2,000 and the minimum subsequent investment requirement is $50 for taxable accounts. For IRA or tax-deferred accounts, the minimum initial investment requirement for this Fund is $1,000 and the minimum subsequent investment requirement is $50. These investment requirements may be different, however, for investors investing in the Fund through an automatic investment plan.
You may purchase or redeem Fund shares on days that the New York Stock Exchange is open. You may conduct such transactions by mail, telephone 800-847-4836, the Internet (Thrivent.com), by wire/ACH transfer or through an automatic investment plan (for purchases) or a systematic withdrawal plan (for redemptions), subject to certain limitations.
Tax Information
The Fund generally intends to distribute tax-exempt income, although it may also make distributions that are taxed as ordinary income or capital gains. Investing in the Fund through a retirement plan could have different tax consequences.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries
If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as an insurance company), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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The principal underwriter for Thrivent Mutual Funds is Thrivent Distributors, LLC, a registered broker/dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC and a subsidiary of Thrivent Financial, the marketing name for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this Summary Prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. Shares of Thrivent Mutual Funds are not deposits or other obligations of Thrivent Trust Company or any bank, or insured or otherwise protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other federal agency. Shares of Thrivent Mutual Funds are subject to investment risk, including possible loss of the principal amount invested.
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