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American Beacon S&P 500 Index Fund

Fund information as of September 30, 2008
Fund Overview
Total Fund Assets: $277.4 Million
  Institutional Class   PlanAhead Class®    
           
Inception Date 12/31/96   3/2/98    
Class Assets $262.0 Million   $15.3 Million    
Fund NAV $15.84   $15.62    
CUSIP 02368A711   02368A679    
Trading Symbol AASPX   AAFPX    
Investment Minimum $2 Million   $2,500    
 
Fund Classes
 
Institutional Class shares are for those who make the decisions about where your company's pension funds or corporate cash will be invested or for others with at least $2 million to invest.
PlanAhead Class shares are offered to individual investors, retirement accounts, plan sponsors, discount brokers or other organizations.
 
Investment Sub-Advisor
 
The Fund invests all of its investable assets in the State Street Equity 500 Index Portfolio, which is managed by SSgA Funds Management, Inc., a subsidiary of State Street Corp. and an affiliate of State Street Bank and Trust Company.
 
Expense Ratios
 
  Institutional Class   PlanAhead Class    
           
Gross Expense Ratio 0.13%   0.63%    
 
Investment Objective

A Fund seeking to replicate, as closely as possible before expenses, the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index (the "S&P 500 Index" or "Index").
 
Investment Style

The Fund invests primarily in common stocks of companies that comprise the S&P 500. The Fund is not managed according to traditional methods of "active" investment management, which involve the buying and selling of securities based upon economic, financial and market analyses and investment judgment. Instead, the Fund utilizes a "passive" or "indexing" investment approach that attempts to replicate, before expenses, the performance of the S&P 500.

The Fund intends to invest in all 500 stocks comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. Under certain circumstances, the Fund may purchase a sample of the stocks in the Index in proportions expected by the investment advisor to replicate generally the performance of the Index as a whole.
 
S&P 500 Index Fund Total Returns as of 9/30/2008
                         
 
QTR		  
YTD		  
1 YR		  
3 YR*		  
5 YR*		  
10 YR*		  
                         
Institutional Class -8.38   -19.40   -22.12   0.09   5.02   2.88  
PlanAhead Class -8.50   -19.69   -22.52   -0.39   4.53   2.44  
                         
Lipper Index** -8.40   -19.39   -22.12   0.00   4.92   2.79  
S&P 500 Index *** -8.37   -19.29   -21.98   0.22   5.17   3.06  
 

Performance shown is historical and may not be indicative of future returns. Investment returns and principal value will vary, and shares may be worth more or less at redemption than at original purchase. Performance shown is as of date indicated and current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. To obtain performance as of the most recent month end, click here.
 
Lipper Rankings as of 9/30/2008
 
Category: S&P 500 Index Objective Funds
  1 YR   3 YR   5 YR   10 YR
# of funds in category 180   168   149   79
               
Institutional Class 44   29   26   19
PlanAhead Class 129   113   103   64
 
Lipper Quartile
 
Institutional Class 1st   1st   1st   1st
PlanAhead Class 3rd   3rd   3rd   4th
 
Lipper is an independent rating service that ranks mutual funds in various categories by making comparative calculations using total returns.
 
Sector Weightings
     
Information Technology   16.0
Financials   15.8
Energy   13.3
Health Care   13.1
Consumer Staples   12.2
Industrials   11.1
Consumer Discretionary   8.5
Utilities   3.5
Materials   3.4
Telecommunication Services   3.1
 
 
Asset Allocation
 
   
Equity 97.8
Equitized Cash 2.2
 
Portfolio Statistics
     

Equity
Fund
S&P 500
Price/Earnings Ratio 12.5 11.8
Price/Book Ratio 2.2 3.3
Wtd. Avg. Mkt. Cap ($ bil) 86.7 86.3
   
3-Year Risk Summary  
R2 1.00  
Alpha 0.07  
Beta 1.00  
Sharpe Ratio -1.66  
Standard Deviation 14.79  
 
Top Ten Holdings (%)
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Exxon Mobil Corp. 4.0%
General Electric Co. 2.5%
Procter & Gamble Co. 2.1%
Microsoft Corp. 2.1%
Johnson & Johnson 1.9%
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.7%
Chevron Corp. 1.7%
AT&T, Inc. 1.6%
Bank of America Corp. 1.6%
International Business Machines Corp. 1.6%

You should consider the investment objectives, risks, fees and expenses of any mutual fund carefully before investing. This and other information is available in the Fund's prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.

* Annualized.
** Lipper S&P 500 Index Objective Funds. The Lipper S&P 500 Index Objective Funds Index tracks the results of the 30 largest mutual funds in the Lipper S&P 500 Index Objective Funds category. Lipper is an independent mutual fund research and ranking service.
*** The S&P 500 Index is a market capitalization weighted index of common stocks publicly traded in the United States.

Performance shown prior to the 3/2/98 inception of the PlanAhead Class is that of the Institutional Class. The returns have not been adjusted for any difference between the fees and expenses of the PlanAhead Class and the historical fees and expenses of the Institutional Class. Because the Institutional Class had lower expenses, its performance was better than the PlanAhead Class would have realized during the same period. A portion of the fees charged to the PlanAhead Class of the Fund was waived through 2002. Performance prior to waiving fees was lower than the actual returns shown for periods prior to 2002.
S&P is a trademark of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and has been licensed for use. "Standard and Poor's", "S&P", "Standard & Poor's 500", "S&P 500", and "500" are all trademarks of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and have been licensed for use by State Street Bank and Trust Company. The S&P 500 Index Fund is not sponsored, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor's, and Standard & Poor's makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in this Fund.

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