Ivy International Growth Fund

 

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Summary Prospectus   |   December 18, 2012

Share Class (Ticker):     Class R Shares (IYIGX)

 

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s prospectus and other information about the Fund (including the Fund’s SAI) online at www.ivyfunds.com/prospectus . You can also get this information at no cost by calling 800.777.6472 or by sending an e-mail request to IMCompliance@waddell.com . You can also get this information from your investment provider. The Fund’s prospectus and SAI dated December 18, 2012 (as each may be amended or supplemented) are incorporated herein by reference.

Objective

To seek to provide growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees

 

(fees paid directly from your investment)    Class R  

Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a % of offering price)

     None   

Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of lesser of amount invested or redemption value)

     None   

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

 

(expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)    Class R  

Management Fees

     0.85%   

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

     0.50%   

Other Expenses

     0.38% 1  

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

     1.73%   

Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

     0.00%   

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

     1.73%   

 

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The percentage shown for Other Expenses is based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the particular class of shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all 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 costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

 

         1 Year      3 Years      5 Years      10 Years  

Class R Shares

     $ 176       $ 545       $ 939       $ 2,041   

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 49% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Ivy International Growth Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing primarily in common stocks of foreign companies that Ivy Investment Management Company (IICO), the Fund’s investment manager, believes are competitively well-positioned, gaining market share, have the potential for long-term growth and operate in regions or countries that IICO believes possess attractive growth characteristics. The Fund primarily invests in issuers of developed countries, and historically has had a significant investment in issuers or companies located in Continental Europe, the United Kingdom and the Pacific Basin, although the Fund may invest in issuers domiciled in or doing business in any country or region around the globe, including emerging markets. While the Fund primarily invests in securities issued by large cap companies (typically, companies with market capitalizations of at least $10 billion at the time of acquisition), it may invest in securities issued by companies of any size.


IICO utilizes a research-based investment process that blends top-down global economic analysis with bottom-up stock selection. After identifying promising opportunities around the world, IICO seeks strong companies in industries which it believes are growing faster than their underlying economies. IICO may look at a number of factors in selecting securities for the Fund’s portfolio, including: a company’s competitive position and its sustainability; a company’s growth and earnings potential and valuation; a company’s financials, including cash flow and balance sheet; management of the company; strength of the industry; and applicable economic, market and political conditions of the country in which the company is located and/or in which it is doing business.

Generally, in determining whether to sell a security, IICO uses the same type of analysis that it uses in buying securities. For example, IICO may sell a security issued by a company if it believes the company has experienced a fundamental breakdown of its sustainable competitive advantage or no longer offers significant growth potential, if it believes the management of the company has weakened, and/or there exists political or economic instability in the issuer’s country. IICO also may sell a security to reduce the Fund’s holding in that security, to take advantage of more attractive investment opportunities or to raise cash.

Principal Investment Risks

As with any mutual fund, the value of the Fund’s shares will change, and you could lose money on your investment. The Fund is not intended as a complete investment program. A variety of factors can affect the investment performance of the Fund and prevent it from achieving its objective. These include:

 

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

 

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Emerging Market Risk . Investments in countries with emerging economies or securities markets may carry greater risk than investments in more developed countries. Political and economic structures in many such countries may be undergoing significant evolution and rapid development, and such countries may lack the social, political and economic stability characteristic of more developed countries.

 

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Foreign Currency Risk . Foreign securities may be denominated in foreign currencies. The value of the Fund’s investments, as measured in U.S. dollars, may be unfavorably affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates and exchange control regulations.

 

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Foreign Securities Risk . Investing in foreign securities involves a number of economic, financial, legal, and political considerations that may not be associated with the U.S. markets and that could affect the Fund’s performance unfavorably, depending upon the prevailing conditions at any given time. Among these potential risks are: greater price volatility; comparatively weak supervision and regulation of securities exchanges, brokers and issuers; higher brokerage costs; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and related conversion costs; adverse foreign tax consequences; different financial reporting standards; custody; and settlement delays.

 

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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 not perform as well as value stocks or the stock market in general.

 

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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, which may affect share price. Although larger companies tend to be less volatile than 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.

 

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Management Risk . Fund performance is primarily dependent on IICO’s skill in evaluating and managing the Fund’s portfolio and the Fund may not perform as well as other similar mutual funds.

 

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Market Risk . Adverse market conditions, sometimes in response to general economic or industry news, may cause the prices of the Fund’s holdings to fall as part of a broad market decline. The financial crisis in the U.S. and foreign economies over the past several years, including the European sovereign debt crisis, has resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both U.S. and foreign, and in the NAVs of many mutual funds, including to some extent the Fund. 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 may adversely affect securities held by the Fund. These circumstances have also decreased liquidity in some markets and may continue to do so. In addition, certain unanticipated events, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, war, and other geopolitical events, can have a dramatic adverse effect on securities held by the Fund.

Performance

The chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The chart shows how performance has varied from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows the average annual total returns for Class A shares of the Fund 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 Fund).

Because Class R shares do not have any performance history, the annual returns in the bar chart, the best and worst quarter returns and the average annual total return chart are those of the Fund’s Class A shares, which are not offered in this prospectus. The annual returns in the bar chart are for the Fund’s Class A shares without reflecting payment of any front-end sales charge; if they did reflect payment of sales charges,


annual returns would be lower. Performance for Class R shares would be similar because the shares are invested in the same portfolio of securities and have the same portfolio management. Class R shares are not subject to a sales charge, but have a higher distribution fee. Please see the section entitled “Your Account.”

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. 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 (IRAs), or to shares held by non-taxable entities. Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be better than Return Before Taxes due to an assumed tax benefit from losses on a sale of the Fund’s shares at the end of the period. After-tax returns are shown only for the Class A shares; after tax returns for Class R shares of the Fund will vary from those shown.

Performance results may 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 Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future. Current performance may be lower or higher. Please visit www.ivyfunds.com or call 800.777.6472 for the Fund’s updated performance.

Chart of Year-by-Year Returns

as of December 31 each year

 

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   In the period shown in the chart, the highest quarterly return was 20.48% (the second quarter of 2009) and the lowest quarterly return was -23.02% (the third quarter of 2002). The Class A return for the year through September 30, 2012 was 0.27%.

Average Annual Total Returns

 

as of December 31, 2011    1 Year      5 Years      10 Years
 

Class A

        

Return Before Taxes

     -13.06%         -2.62%         3.60%   

Return After Taxes on Distributions

     -13.06%         -2.79%         3.49%   

Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

     -8.49%         -2.24%         3.11%   
        
Indexes    1 Year      5 Years      10 Years
 

MSCI EAFE Growth Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

     -12.11%         -3.16%         4.27%   

Lipper International Large-Cap Growth Funds Universe Average (net of fees and expenses)

     -13.31%         -3.13%         4.37%   

Investment Adviser

The Fund is managed by Ivy Investment Management Company (IICO).

Portfolio Manager

Chace Brundige, Senior Vice President of IICO, has managed the Fund since January 2009.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

The Fund’s shares are redeemable. You may purchase or redeem shares at the Fund’s NAV per share next calculated after your order is received in proper form, subject to any applicable sales charge, on any business day through your dealer or financial adviser or by writing to WI Services Company, P.O. Box 29217, Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66201-9217. If your individual account is not maintained on the Fund’s shareholder servicing system, please contact your selling broker-dealer, plan administrator or third-party record keeper to sell shares of the Fund.

Please check with your selling broker-dealer, plan administrator or third-party record keeper to sell Class R shares of the Fund and for information about minimum investment requirements. The Fund and/or Ivy Funds Distributor, Inc. (IFDI) may reduce or waive the minimums in some cases.

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions are generally taxable to you as ordinary income, long-term capital gain, or a combination of the two, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account.


Payments to Broker-Dealers and other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and/or IICO and/or its affiliates 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 web site for more information.

 

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