Income Generation with Shorter Durations

All data as of March 31, 2013 unless otherwise noted. The composition of the Fund’s holdings is subject to change.

Data shown is historical performance for each share class and reflects reinvested distributions. Investment return and principal value will vary so that you may have a gain or loss when you sell shares. Public Offering Price (POP) performance data for Class A shares includes the maximum 1% sales charge. Class S shares do not impose a sales charge, but are subject to higher distribution fees. Please see the prospectus. Past performance does not guarantee future results; current performance may be higher or lower than data quoted. For performance current to the most recent month-end, click here.

The Fund may use derivatives, which are financial contracts whose value depends upon or is derived from the value of an underlying asset, reference rate, or index. The Fund may use derivatives as part of a strategy designed to reduce exposure to certain risks, such as risks associated with changes in interest rates, or currency or credit risk ("hedging"). The use of derivatives may reduce the Fund's return and increase the volatility in movements in the Fund's net asset value. For additional information regarding the use of derivatives, please see the Fund's current prospectus.

The Fund is subject to interest rate risk. Bond values will generally decrease when interest rates rise and will generally increase when interest rates fall.

Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are subject to pre-payment risk.

Fund shares are not insured or guaranteed by the US government or its agencies.

The following are total annual operating expense ratios for Sentinel Short Maturity Government Fund Class A & S shares; A - 0.86%, S - 1.25%. All expense ratio data is sourced from the prospectus dated March 30, 2013.

Effective duration is a measure of the sensititivity of a bond's price to changes in interest rates which incorporates embedded option features such as call/put provisions. Bonds with longer durations generally experience greater price volatility than bonds with shorter durations.

Effective maturity is an average time to maturity of all the securities held in the portfolio, weighted by each security's percentage of net assets.

SEC annualized yields are computed by dividing net investment income by the product of the average daily number of shares outstanding that were eligible to receive dividends and the maximum offering price per share on the last day for the 30-day or one month period ending on the date for which other performance data is shown above.

The Barclays 1-3 Year US Government Bond Index is an unmanaged index comprising US government and government agency securities with maturities between one and three years. An investment cannot be made directly in an index.

The Barclays US Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) Index is an unmanaged index of agency mortgage-backed pass-through securities issued by Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC). An investment cannot be made directly in an index.

Sources: BondEdge, Lipper, Morningstar

The Morningstar Style Box^TM reveals a fund's investment style as of the date noted on this report. For fixed-income funds, the vertical axis shows the credit quality of the bonds owned and the horizontal axis shows interest rate sensitivity as measured by a bond's effective duration.

Morningstar seeks credit rating information from fund companies on a periodic basis (e.g., quarterly). In compiling credit rating information, Morningstar instructs fund companies to only use ratings that have been assigned by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO). If two NRSROs have rated a security, fund companies are to report the lowest rating; if three or more NRSROs have rated the same security differently, fund companies are to report the rating that is in the middle. For example, if NRSRO X rates a security AA-, NRSRO Y rates the same security an A and NRSRO Z rates it a BBB+, the fund company should use the credit rating of 'A' in its reporting to Morningstar. PLEASE NOTE: Morningstar, Inc. is not itself an NRSRO nor does it issue a credit rating on the fund. An NRSRO rating on a fixed-income security can change from time-to-time.

For credit quality, Morningstar combines the credit rating information provided by the fund companies with an average default rate calculation to come up with a weighted-average credit quality. The weighted-average credit quality is currently a letter that roughly corresponds to the scale used by a leading NRSRO. Bond funds are assigned a style box placement of "low", "medium", or "high" based on their average credit quality. Funds with a low credit quality are those whose weighted-average credit quality is determined to be less than "BBB-"; medium are those less than "AA-", but greater or equal to "BBB-"; and high are those with a weighted-average credit quality of "AA-" or higher. When classifying a bond portfolio, Morningstar first maps the NRSRO credit ratings of the underlying holdings to their respective default rates (as determined by Morningstar's analysis of actual historical default rates). Morningstar then averages these default rates to determine the average default rate for the entire bond fund. Finally, Morningstar maps this average default rate to its corresponding credit rating along a convex curve.

For interest-rate sensitivity, Morningstar obtains from fund companies the average effective duration. Generally, Morningstar classifies a fixed-income fund's interest-rate sensitivity based on the effective duration of the Morningstar Core Bond Index (MCBI), which is currently three years. The classification of Limited will be assigned to those funds whose average effective duration is between 25% to 75% of MCBI's average effective duration; funds whose average effective duration is between 75% to 125% of the MCBI will be classified as Moderate; and those that are at 125% or greater of the average effective duration of the MCBI will be classified as Extensive.