Nationwide Mutual Funds

09/18/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/18/2025 08:58

Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497)

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL FUNDS
Nationwide Strategic Income Fund (formerly, Nationwide Amundi Strategic Income Fund)
Nationwide Bailard International Equities Fund
Nationwide Global Sustainable Equity Fund
Nationwide International Small Cap Fund
Nationwide Janus Henderson Overseas Fund

Supplement dated September 18, 2025
to the Prospectus dated February 28, 2025

Capitalized terms and certain other terms used in this supplement, unless otherwise defined in this supplement, have the meanings assigned to them in the Prospectus.

Effective immediately, the Prospectus is amended as follows:


1.
The first paragraph under the heading "Investing with Nationwide Funds - Share Classes - Class R6 Shares" that begins on page 58 of the prospectus is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

Class R6 shares are sold without a sales charge, and are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees or administrative services fees. Therefore, no administrative services fees, sub-transfer agency payments or other service payments are paid to broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries either from Fund assets or the Distributor's or an affiliate's resources with respect to sales of or investments in Class R6 shares, although such payments may be made by the Distributor or its affiliate from its own resources pursuant to (i) written contracts entered into by the Distributor or its affiliate prior to April 1, 2014, and (ii) solely as it relates to the Nationwide International Small Cap Fund, written contracts entered into since that date by the Distributor or its affiliate with a limited number of selected financial intermediaries.



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