Summary Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497K)

 

Retirement Class HNLVX

Institutional Class HAVLX

Investor Class HILVX

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks long-term total return.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.

 

 

	Retirement Class	Institutional Class	Investor Class
Management Fees	0.60%	0.60%	0.60%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees	None	None	0.25%
Other Expenses1	0.04%	0.12%	0.21%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	0.64%	0.72%	1.06%
Expense Reimbursement2	(0.03)%	(0.03)%	(0.03)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Expense Reimbursement2	0.61%	0.69%	1.03%

1 Restated to reflect current fees for the Investor Class.

2  The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit the Fund's operating expenses, excluding interest expense (if any), to 0.61%, 0.69%, and 1.03% for the Retirement Class, Institutional Class, and Investor Class, respectively, through February 28, 2027. Only the Fund's Board of Trustees may modify or terminate this agreement.

 

Expense Example

This Expense Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Expense Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The Expense 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, under these assumptions, your costs would be: 

	One Year	Three Years	Five Years	Ten Years
Retirement	$62	$202	$354	$796
Institutional	$70	$227	$398	$892
Investor	$105	$334	$582	$1,291

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 may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when shares of the Fund are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Expense Example, do affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 10%.

Principal Investment Strategy

The Fund invests primarily in equity securities, principally common and preferred stocks of large cap companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of large cap companies.

The Fund defines large cap companies as those with market capitalizations that fall within the range of the Russell 1000® Value Index. As of December 31, 2025, the range of the Index was $1 billion to $3.79 trillion, but it is expected to change frequently.

The Subadvisor employs a fundamental, bottom-up research driven approach to identify approximately 35 to 45 companies for investment by the Fund. The Subadvisor focuses on those companies that it believes are higher quality businesses that are undervalued by the market relative to what the Subadvisor believes to be their fair value.

The Subadvisor seeks to identify higher quality companies by focusing on the following attributes:

The Subadvisor then assesses the attractiveness of the valuations of those higher quality companies by analyzing a variety of valuation metrics, such as cash flow return on enterprise value, price-to-earnings, sales and free cash flow ratios and break-up values, among others.

The Subadvisor looks for potential catalysts for the company's business that could help unlock what the Subadvisor believes is the company's true value, including:

The Subadvisor also considers environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors to be integral components of its analysis

and engages with companies on these topics. The key ESG considerations may vary depending on the industry, sector, geographic region or other factors and the core business of each issuer. ESG criteria represent only one of several factors considered in making investment decisions. Accordingly, ESG factors may not be assessed for every investment, and the Fund may invest in companies with lower ESG ratings when other investment considerations are deemed favorable.

The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in the securities of foreign issuers, including issuers located or doing business in emerging markets.

The Subadvisor may sell a holding if the value potential is realized, if warning signals emerge of fundamental deterioration, or if the valuation is no longer compelling relative to other investment opportunities.

Principal Risks

There is no guarantee that the investment objective of the Fund will be achieved. Stocks fluctuate in price and the value of your investment in the Fund may go down. This means that you could lose money on your investment in the Fund or the Fund may not perform as well as other investment options. Principal risks impacting the Fund (in alphabetical order after the first four risks) include:

Equity Risk: The values of equity or equity-related securities may decline due to general market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular company, such as real or perceived adverse economic conditions, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates or adverse investor sentiment generally. They may also decline due to factors that affect a particular industry or industries, such as labor shortages or increased production costs and competitive conditions within an industry. Equity securities generally have greater price volatility than fixed income securities.

Limited Number of Holdings Risk: The Fund may invest in a limited number of companies. As a result, an adverse event affecting a particular company may hurt the Fund's performance more than if it had invested in a larger number of companies. In addition, the Fund's performance may be more volatile than a fund that invests in a larger number of companies.

Market Risk: Securities markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to adverse market, economic, political, regulatory or other developments, which may lower the value of securities held by the Fund, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Events such as war, military conflict, geopolitical disputes, acts of terrorism, social or political unrest, natural disasters, recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, supply chain disruptions, tariffs and other restrictions on trade, sanctions, the spread of infectious illness or other public health threats, or the threat or potential of one or more such events and developments, could also significantly impact the Fund and its investments.

Value Style Risk: Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. Over time, a value oriented investing style may go in and out of favor, which may cause the Fund to underperform other equity funds that use different investing styles.

Depositary Receipts Risk: Depositary receipts are certificates evidencing ownership of shares of a foreign issuer. These certificates are issued by depository banks and generally trade on an established market in the U.S. or elsewhere. The underlying shares are held in trust by a custodian bank or similar financial institution. The

depository bank may not have physical custody of the underlying securities at all times and may charge fees for various services, including forwarding dividends and interest and corporate actions. Depositary receipts are alternatives to directly purchasing the underlying foreign securities in their national markets and currencies. The issuers of depositary receipts may discontinue issuing new depositary receipts and withdraw existing depositary receipts at any time, which may result in costs and delays in the distribution of the underlying assets to the Fund and may negatively impact the Fund's performance. Depositary receipts are subject to the risks associated with investing directly in foreign securities.

ESG Factors Risk: The consideration of ESG factors by the Subadvisor could cause the Fund to perform differently than other funds. ESG factors are not the only consideration used by the Subadvisor in making investment decisions for the Fund and the Fund may invest in a company that scores poorly on ESG factors if it scores well on other criteria. ESG factors may not be considered for every investment decision.

Foreign Securities Risk: Because the Fund may invest in securities of foreign issuers, an investment in the Fund is subject to special risks in addition to those of U.S. securities. These risks include heightened political and economic risks, greater volatility, currency fluctuations, higher transaction costs, delayed settlement, possible foreign controls on investment, possible sanctions by governmental bodies of other countries and less stringent investor protection and disclosure standards of foreign markets. Foreign securities are sometimes less liquid and harder to value than securities of U.S. issuers. These risks are more significant for issuers in emerging market countries. Global economies and financial markets are becoming increasingly interconnected, and conditions and events in one country, region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market.

Issuer Risk: An adverse event affecting a particular issuer in which the Fund is invested, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of that issuer's securities, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably.

Large Cap Risk: Large cap stocks may fall out of favor relative to small or mid cap stocks, which may cause the Fund to underperform other equity funds that focus on small or mid cap stocks. Large cap companies may be less able than smaller cap companies to adapt to changing market conditions and may be more mature and subject to more limited growth potential than smaller cap companies.

Preferred Stock Risk: Preferred stocks in which the Fund may invest are sensitive to interest rate changes, and are also subject to equity risk, which is the risk that stock prices will fall over short or extended periods of time. The rights of preferred stocks on the distribution of a company's assets in the event of a liquidation are generally subordinate to the rights associated with a company's debt securities.

Selection Risk: The Subadvisor's judgment about the attractiveness, value and growth potential of a particular security may be incorrect, which may cause the Fund to underperform. Additionally, the Subadvisor potentially will be prevented from executing investment decisions at an advantageous time or price as a result of domestic or global market disruptions, particularly disruptions causing heightened market volatility and reduced market liquidity, as well as increased or changing regulations. Thus, investments that a Subadvisor believes represent an attractive opportunity or in which the Fund seeks to obtain exposure may be unavailable entirely or in the specific quantities or prices sought by a Subadvisor and the Fund may need to obtain the exposure through less advantageous or indirect investments or forgo the investment at

Performance

Effective May 25, 2012, Aristotle Capital Management, LLC ("Aristotle") became the Fund's Subadvisor. Performance prior to that date is not attributable to Aristotle.

The following bar chart and tables are intended to help you understand the risks and potential rewards of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Fund's Institutional Class has varied from one calendar year to another over the periods shown. The table shows how the Fund's average annual total returns of the share classes presented compare to a broad measure of market performance and an additional index over time. Please note that the Fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. To obtain updated performance information please visit the Fund's website at harborcapital.com or call 800-422-1050.

 

  

During the time period shown in the bar chart, the Fund's highest and lowest returns for a calendar quarter were: 

	Total Returns	Quarter/Year
Best Quarter	20.89%	Q2 2020
Worst Quarter	-24.01%	Q1 2020

 

	One Year	Annualized			Inception Date
		Five Years	Ten Years	Since Inception
Harbor Large Cap Value Fund
Retirement Class* Before Taxes	11.11%	8.79%	11.72%	10.19%	03-01-2016
Institutional Class Before Taxes	11.07%	8.70%	11.65%	10.17%	12-29-1987
After Taxes on Distributions	6.28%	6.74%	10.24%	N/A
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	9.95%	6.72%	9.46%	N/A
Investor Class Before Taxes	10.71%	8.32%	11.23%	9.39%	11-01-2002
Comparative Indices (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
S&P 500 Index^	17.88%	14.42%	14.82%	11.45%
Russell 1000® Value Index^^	15.91%	11.33%	10.53%	10.52%

^^Since Inception return based on the inception date of the Institutional Class shares. The Advisor considers this index to be representative of the Fund's principal investment strategies and therefore the appropriate benchmark index for the Fund for performance comparison purposes.

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 will depend on a shareholder's individual tax situation and may differ from those shown. The after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt shareholders or shareholders who hold their Fund shares through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account. In some cases, average annual total return "After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares" may exceed the return "Before Taxes" and/or "After Taxes on Distributions" due to an assumed tax benefit for any losses on a sale of Fund shares at the end of the measurement period.After-tax returns are shown for Institutional Class shares only. After-tax returns for each of the Retirement, and Investor Class of shares will vary.

Portfolio Management

Investment Advisor

Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc.

 

Subadvisor

Aristotle Capital Management, LLC ("Aristotle") has subadvised the Fund since 2012.

 

Portfolio Managers

The portfolio managers are jointly and primarily responsible for the day-to-day investment decision making for the Fund. 

Howard Gleicher, CFA Aristotle Capital Management, LLC

Mr. Gleicher is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Aristotle and has managed the Fund since 2012. 

Gregory D. Padilla, CFA Aristotle Capital Management, LLC

Mr. Padilla is a Portfolio Manager and Senior Global Research Analyst of Aristotle and has managed the Fund since 2018.

Buying and Selling Fund Shares

Shareholders may purchase or sell (redeem) Fund shares on any business day (normally any day the New York Stock Exchange is open). You may conduct transactions by mail, by telephone or through our website. 

By Mail	Harbor Funds P.O. Box 804660 Chicago, IL 60680-4108
By Telephone	800-422-1050
By Visiting Our Website	harborcapital.com

Investors who wish to purchase, exchange or redeem shares held through a financial intermediary should contact the financial intermediary directly.

The minimum initial investment amounts are shown below. The minimums may be reduced or waived in some cases. There are no minimums for subsequent investments. 

Type of Account	Retirement Class1	Institutional Class	Investor Class
Regular	$1,000,000	$50,000	$2,500
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)	$1,000,000	$50,000	$1,000
Custodial (UGMA/UTMA)	$1,000,000	$50,000	$1,000

1  There is no minimum investment for (1) employer-sponsored group retirement or benefit plans (with more than one participant) that maintain accounts with Harbor Funds at an omnibus or plan level, including: (i) plans established under Internal Revenue Code Sections 401(a), 403(b) or 457, (ii) profit-sharing plans, cash balance plans and money purchase pension plans, (iii) non-qualified deferred compensation plans, and (iv) retiree health benefit plans; and (2) certain wrap or model-driven asset allocation program accounts for the benefit of clients of financial intermediaries, as approved by the Distributor.

Tax Information

Distributions you receive from the Fund are subject to federal income tax and may also be subject to state and local taxes. These distributions will generally be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account. Investments in tax-deferred accounts may be subject to tax when they are withdrawn.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

The Fund, the Advisor and/or its related companies have in the past and could in the future pay intermediaries, which may include banks, broker-dealers, or financial professionals, for marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, conferences, the development of technology platforms and reporting systems and data or other services related to the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your sales representative to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your sales representative or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.

Retirement Class	Institutional Class	Investor Class
HNLVX	HAVLX	HILVX

 

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