Nationwide Small Cap Index R (Nationwide Small Cap Index Fund) Fonds

The fund employs a "passive" management, or indexing, approach, which seeks to match approximately the performance of the Russell 2000® Index before the deduction of fund expenses. It normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in a statistically selected sampling of securities of companies included in the Russell 2000® Index. The Russell 2000® Index is composed of equity securities of approximately 2,000 small-cap U.S. companies in a wide range of businesses.