Touchstone Funds Group Trust

01/28/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/28/2026 08:36

Summary Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497K)

      
Summary Prospectus 
Touchstone Dividend Equity FundJanuary 28, 2026
Class A Ticker: TQCAX Class C Ticker: TQCCX
Class Y Ticker: TQCYX Institutional Class Ticker: TQCIX Class R6 Ticker: TQCRX
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's prospectus, which contains information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated January 28, 2026, as amended from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Fund's prospectus and other information about the Fund, go to TouchstoneInvestments.com/Resources, call 1.800.543.0407, or ask any financial adviser, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the Fund.
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund Summary
The Fund's Investment Goal
The Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund (the "Fund") seeks current income and capital appreciation.
The Fund's Fees and Expenses
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 tables and examples below. You may qualify for sales charge discounts for Class A shares of Touchstone equity funds and Touchstone fixed income funds if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 or $50,000, respectively, in Touchstone funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional, in the section titled "Choosing a Class of Shares" in the Fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information on pages 96 and 97, respectively, and in Appendix A-Intermediary-Specific Sales Charge Waivers and Discounts to the Fund's prospectus. An investor transacting in Class R6 shares, which do not have any front-end sales charge, contingent deferred sales charge, or other asset-based fee for sales or distribution, may be required to pay a commission to a broker for effecting such transactions on an agency basis. Such commissions are not reflected in the table or in the "Example" below.  
Class A
Class C
Class Y
Institutional
Class
Class R6
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a
percentage of offering price)
5.00%
None
None
None
None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original
purchase price or the amount redeemed, whichever is less)
None
1.00%
None
None
None
Wire Redemption Fee
$15
$15
$15
$15
$15
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management Fees
0.52%
0.52%
0.52%
0.52%
0.52%
Distribution and/or Shareholder Service (12b-1) Fees
0.25%
1.00%
None
None
None
Other Expenses
0.24%
0.26%
0.24%
0.36%
0.26%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
1.01%
1.78%
0.76%
0.88%
0.78%
Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement(1)
(0.02)%
(0.09)%
0.00%
(0.23)%
(0.14)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or
Expense Reimbursement(1)
0.99%
1.69%
0.76%
0.65%(2)
0.64%(2)
(1)
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. (the "Adviser" or "Touchstone Advisors") and Touchstone Funds Group Trust (the "Trust") have entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement whereby Touchstone Advisors will waive a portion of
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its fees or reimburse certain Fund expenses (excluding dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales; interest; taxes; brokerage commissions and other transaction costs; portfolio transaction and investment related expenses, including expenses associated with the Fund's liquidity providers; other expenditures which are capitalized in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; the cost of "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses", if any; and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of business) in order to limit annual Fund operating expenses to 0.99%, 1.69%, 0.77%, 0.65% and 0.64% of average daily net assets for Classes A, C, Y, Institutional Class and Class R6 shares, respectively. This contractual expense limitation is effective through January 28, 2027, but can be terminated by a vote of the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the "Board") if it deems the termination to be beneficial to the Fund's shareholders. The terms of the contractual expense limitation agreement provide that Touchstone Advisors is entitled to recoup, subject to approval by the Board, such amounts waived or reimbursed for a period of up to three years from the date on which the Adviser reduced its compensation or assumed expenses for the Fund. The Fund will make repayments to the Adviser only if such repayment does not cause the annual Fund operating expenses (after the repayment is taken into account) to exceed both (1) the expense cap in place when such amounts were waived or reimbursed and (2) the Fund's current expense limitation.
(2)
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement will differ from the ratio of net expenses to average net assets that is included in the Fund's Form N-CSR filing for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 due to contractual changes in the Fund's expense limitation agreement effective January 29, 2025 and January 28, 2026.
Example. This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then, except as indicated, redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same and that all fee waivers or expense limits for the Fund will expire after one year. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:  
Assuming Redemption at End of Period
Assuming
No Redemption
Class A
Class C
Class Y
Institutional
Class
Class R6
Class C
1 Year
$596
$272
$78
$66
$65
$172
3 Years
$804
$552
$243
$258
$235
$552
5 Years
$1,028
$956
$422
$465
$420
$956
10 Years
$1,673
$2,087
$942
$1,063
$953
$2,087
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as brokerage 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 total 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 12% of the average value of the Fund's portfolio.
The Fund's Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of U.S. large-cap companies that have historically paid dividends. The Fund's 80% policy is a non-fundamental investment policy that can be changed by the Fund upon 60 days' prior notice to shareholders. For the purpose of the Fund's 80% policy, a large capitalization company has a market capitalization within the range represented in the S&P 500 Index (between approximately $5.54 billion and $4.53 trillion as of December 31, 2025) at the time of purchase. These securities may be listed on an exchange or traded over-the-counter.
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In selecting securities for the Fund, the Fund's sub-adviser, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (the "Sub-Adviser"), seeks to invest in companies that:
Have historically paid consistent, growing dividends
Have sustainable competitive advantages that should result in excess profits to support future dividend payments
Trade at reasonable valuations compared to their intrinsic value
The Sub-Adviser believes the unique approach results in a portfolio of high quality companies with sustainable competitive advantages that should pay reliable, growing dividends at reasonable valuations. The Sub-Adviser evaluates a company's competitive advantage by assessing its barriers to entry. The barrier(s) to entry can be created through a cost advantage, economies of scale, high customer loyalty, or a government barrier (e.g., license or subsidy). The Sub-Adviser believes that the strongest barrier to entry is the combination of economies of scale and high customer loyalty.
The Fund will generally hold 65 to 90 companies, with residual cash and equivalents expected to represent less than 10% of the Fund's net assets. The Fund may, at times, hold fewer securities and a higher percentage of cash and equivalents when, among other reasons, the Sub-Adviser cannot find a sufficient number of securities that meets its purchase requirements.
The Fund will generally sell a security if the security does not meet portfolio guidelines, if the security stops paying a dividend and future prospects of paying a dividend are limited, or if better opportunities exist based on the fundamentals and valuation of the business.
The Fund's Principal Risks
The Fund's share price will fluctuate. You could lose money on your investment in the Fund and the Fund could also return less than other investments. Investments in the Fund are not bank guaranteed, are not deposits, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other federal government agency. As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment goal. You can find more information about the Fund's investments and risks under the "Principal Investment Strategies and Risks" section of the Fund's prospectus. The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below.
Equity Securities Risk: The Fund is subject to the risk that stock prices will fall over short or extended periods of time. Individual companies may report poor results or be negatively affected by industry and/or economic trends and developments, or as a result of irregular and/or unexpected trading activity among retail investors. The prices of securities issued by these companies may decline in response to such developments, which could result in a decline in the value of the Fund's shares.
Large-Cap Risk: Large-cap companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and also may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.
Dividend Risk: There is no guarantee that the companies in which the Fund invests will declare dividends in the future or that dividends, if declared, will remain at current levels or increase over time. Securities that pay dividends may be sensitive to changes in interest rates, and as interest rates rise or fall, the prices of such securities may fall.
Management Risk: In managing the Fund's portfolio, the Adviser engages one or more sub-advisers to make investment decisions for a portion of or the entire portfolio. There is a risk that the Adviser may be unable to identify and retain sub-advisers who achieve superior investment returns relative to other similar sub-advisers.
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Economic and Market Events Risk: Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times, and for varying periods of time, result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact the Fund's performance and cause the Fund to experience illiquidity, shareholder redemptions, or other potentially adverse effects. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could negatively affect issuers worldwide. Financial institutions could suffer losses as interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate. In addition, the Fund's service providers are susceptible to operational and information or cyber security risks that could result in losses to a Fund and its shareholders.
Value Investing Risk: Value investing presents the risk that the Fund's security holdings may never reach their full intrinsic value because the market fails to recognize what the portfolio managers consider the true business value or because the portfolio managers have misjudged those values.
Cash and Cash Equivalents Risk: Under certain market conditions, such as during a rising stock market, rising interest rates or rising credit spread markets, the use of cash and/or cash equivalents, including money market instruments, could have a negative effect on the Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective and may negatively impact the Fund's performance.
Cybersecurity Risk: Cyber security breaches are either intentional or unintentional events that allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, customer data, or proprietary information, or cause a Fund or Fund service provider to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality. A cyber security breach could result in the loss or theft of customer data or funds, loss or theft of proprietary information or corporate data, physical damage to a computer or network system, or costs associated with system repairs, any of which could have a substantial impact on the Fund. Such incidents could affect issuers in which a Fund invests, thereby causing the Fund's investments to lose value. The Fund has established risk management systems reasonably designed to seek to reduce the risks associated with cyber-events. However, there is no guarantee that the Fund will be able to prevent or mitigate the impact of any or all cyber-events.
The Fund's Performance
The Fund commenced operations following the completion of the reorganization of each of the AIG Focused Dividend Strategy Fund and AIG Select Dividend Growth Fund, each a series of SunAmerica Series, Inc., into the Fund, which occurred on July 16, 2021 (the "Reorganization"). As a result of the Reorganization, the performance and accounting history of the AIG Focused Dividend Strategy Fund (the "Predecessor Fund"), as well as its assets and liabilities, were assumed by the Fund. Performance information included herein, including information on fees and expenses, prior to July 16, 2021 is that of the Predecessor Fund, which was managed by a different adviser using different investment strategies. The Fund's performance shown below would have differed if the Sub-Adviser had managed the Fund pursuant to its current strategies prior to July 16, 2021. The Predecessor Fund did not offer Institutional Class shares or Class R6 shares.
The bar chart and performance table below illustrate some indication of the risks and volatility of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from calendar year to calendar year and by showing how the Fund's average annual total returns for one year, five years, and ten years compare with the Russell 3000® Index. The Russell 1000® Value Index shows how the Fund's performance compares against the returns of an index with similar investment objectives. The bar chart does not reflect any sales charges, which would reduce your return. The performance table reflects any applicable sales charges. Past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. More recent performance information is available at no cost by visiting TouchstoneInvestments.com or by calling 1.800.543.0407.
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Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund - Class A Shares Total Return as of December 31
  
Best Quarter:
2nd Quarter 2020
14.99
%
Worst Quarter:
1st Quarter 2020
(27.03
)%
After-tax returns are calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on a given distribution reinvestment date and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns may differ from those shown and depend on your tax situation. The after-tax returns do not apply to shares held in an individual retirement account ("IRA"), 401(k), or other tax-advantaged account. The after-tax returns shown in the table are for Class A shares only. The after-tax returns for other classes of shares offered by the Fund will differ from the Class A shares' after-tax returns. The Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares may be greater than other returns for the same period due to a tax benefit of realizing a capital loss on the sale of Fund shares. 
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Average Annual Total Returns
For the periods ended December 31, 2025
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Since
Inception
Inception
Date
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund - Class A
Return Before Taxes
10.51
%
9.03
%
7.88
%
N/A
(2)
6/8/1998
Return After Taxes on Distributions
8.90
%
7.62
%
6.37
%
N/A
(2)
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of
Fund Shares
7.35
%
6.89
%
5.99
%
N/A
(2)
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund - Class C
Return Before Taxes
14.52
%
9.57
%
7.80
%
N/A
(2)
6/8/1998
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund - Class Y
Return Before Taxes
16.59
%
10.59
%
8.76
%
N/A
(2)
5/15/2013
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund -
Institutional Class
Return Before Taxes
16.72
%
N/A
N/A
9.70
%
7/19/2021
Touchstone Dividend Equity Fund - Class
R6
Return Before Taxes(1)
16.71
%
N/A
N/A
9.36
%
8/2/2021
Russell 3000® Index (reflects no deduction
for fees, expenses or taxes)
17.15
%
13.15
%
14.29
%
Russell 1000® Value Index (reflects no
deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
15.91
%
11.33
%
10.53
%
(1)
An investor transacting in Class R6 shares may be required to pay a commission to a broker for effecting such transactions on an agency basis. Such commissions will not be reflected in the table.
(2)
Since Inception returns are not shown for classes with greater than ten years of performance history.
The Fund's Management
Investment Adviser
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. serves as the Fund's investment adviser.  
Sub-Adviser
Portfolio Manager(s)
Investment Experience
with the Fund
Primary Title with
Sub-Adviser
Fort Washington
Investment Advisors,
Inc.
Austin R. Kummer, CFA
Since July 2021
Managing Director,
Senior Portfolio
Manager
James E. Wilhelm, Jr.
Since July 2021
Managing Director,
Senior Portfolio
Manager
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Buying and Selling Fund Shares
Minimum Investment Requirements 
Classes A, C, and Y
Initial
Investment
Additional
Investment
Regular Account
$2,500
$50
Retirement Account or Custodial Account under the Uniform Gifts/Transfers
to Minors Act
$1,000
$50
Investments through the Automatic Investment Plan
$100
$50
Institutional Class
Initial
Investment
Additional
Investment
Regular Account
$500,000
$50
Class R6
Initial
Investment
Additional
Investment
Regular Account
$50,000
$50
Class R6 shares held through Touchstone Securities require a $50,000 minimum initial investment and have a $50 subsequent investment minimum. Touchstone does not impose a minimum investment requirement on accounts held through a financial intermediary for Class R6 shares. However, financial intermediaries may set different minimum initial and additional investment requirements, may impose other restrictions or may charge you fees for their services.
Fund shares may be purchased and sold on days that the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading. Existing Class A, C, R6 and Institutional Class shareholders may purchase shares directly through Touchstone Funds via the transfer agent, BNY Mellon, or through their financial intermediary. Class Y shares are available only through financial intermediaries who have appropriate selling agreements in place with Touchstone Securities. Class R6 shares may be purchased directly through Touchstone Securities or through your financial intermediary. Shares may be purchased or sold by writing to Touchstone Securities at P.O. Box 534467, Pittsburgh, PA 15253-4467, calling 1.800.543.0407, or visiting the Touchstone Funds' website: TouchstoneInvestments.com. You may only sell shares over the telephone or via the Internet if the value of the shares sold is less than or equal to $100,000. If your shares are held by a processing organization or financial intermediary you will need to follow its purchase and redemption procedures. For more information about buying and selling shares, see the "Investing with Touchstone" section of the Fund's prospectus or call 1.800.543.0407.
Tax Information
The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains except when shares are held through a tax-advantaged account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA. Withdrawals from a tax-advantaged account, however, may be taxable.
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Financial Intermediary Compensation
If you purchase shares in the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies 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 financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
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