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As Of Filer Filing For·On·As Docs:Size Issuer Filing Agent 9/23/15 Morgan Stanley Inst’l Fund Trust 497 9/23/15 14:477K Toppan Merrill/FA → Short Duration Income Portfolio ⇒ Class C (MSLDX) |
Document/Exhibit Description Pages Size
1: 497 Definitive Material HTML 12K
11: R1 Document and Entity Information HTML 24K
9: R2 Risk/Return Summary - Limited Duration Portfolio HTML 17K
10: R3 Risk/Return Detail Data - Limited Duration HTML 20K
Portfolio
12: R4 Risk/Return Detail Data HTML 10K
14: XML IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary XML 17K
8: EXCEL IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports XLSX 9K
2: EX-101.INS XBRL Instance -- ck0000741375-20150902 XML 17K
7: EX-101.CAL XBRL Calculations -- ck0000741375-20150902_cal XML 18K
5: EX-101.DEF XBRL Definitions -- ck0000741375-20150902_def XML 245K
4: EX-101.LAB XBRL Labels -- ck0000741375-20150902_lab XML 466K
6: EX-101.PRE XBRL Presentations -- ck0000741375-20150902_pre XML 258K
3: EX-101.SCH XBRL Schema -- ck0000741375-20150902 XSD 17K
13: ZIP XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001104659-15-066648-xbrl Zip 28K
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| <ck0000741375:SupplementTextBlock contextRef="S000004119Member"> <p align="left" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 21pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><strong>Prospectus and Summary Prospectus <br/>Supplement</strong></font></p> <br/><p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt 21pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><b>September 2, 2015</b></font></p> <br/><p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Trust</font></p> <br/><p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">Supplement dated September 2, 2015 to the Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Trust Prospectus and Summary Prospectus, each dated April 30, 2015</font></p> <br/><p align="left" style="margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><b>Limited Duration Portfolio (Class C) (the "Portfolio")</b></font></p> <br/><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Times New Roman PS Std, Times New Roman PS, Times New Roman, Times;">Effective upon the consummation of a reorganization of Morgan Stanley Limited Duration U.S. Government Trust into the Portfolio or, if the reorganization is not consummated, on or about December 7, 2015 (the "Effective Date"), the Board of Trustees of Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Trust, on behalf of the Portfolio, has approved various changes with respect to the Portfolio, including (i) changing the Portfolio's name to Short Duration Income Portfolio; (ii) changing the Portfolio's principal investment policy as detailed below; (iii) changing the Portfolio's primary benchmark index to the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch 1-Year U.S. Treasury Note Index; (iv) reducing the advisory fee to 0.20% of the average daily net assets of the Portfolio; and (v) decreasing the maximum expense ratio with respect to Class C shares of the Portfolio to 1.30%. In determining the actual amount of fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement for the Portfolio, if any, the Adviser to the Portfolio, Morgan Stanley Institutional Management Inc., excludes from total annual operating expenses certain investment related expenses, taxes, interest and other extraordinary expenses (including litigation).</font></p> </ck0000741375:SupplementTextBlock> | |||||||||||||||||||||
| <rr:StrategyNarrativeTextBlock contextRef="S000004119Member"> <p style="margin:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Times New Roman PS Std, Times New Roman PS, Times New Roman, Times;">Currently, in seeking to achieve the Portfolio's investment objective of above-average total return over a market cycle of three to five years, the Portfolio normally invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities, primarily in U.S. government securities, investment grade corporate bonds and mortgage- and asset-backed securities.</font></p> <br/><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Times New Roman PS Std, Times New Roman PS, Times New Roman, Times;">On the Effective Date, the Portfolio's principal investment policy will change such that the Portfolio will, under normal circumstances, seek to achieve its investment objective of above-average total return over a market cycle of three to five years by investing substantially all of its assets in investment grade fixed income securities denominated in US dollars, while seeking to maintain an overall duration of its portfolio of approximately one year or less.</font></p> <br/><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Times New Roman PS Std, Times New Roman PS, Times New Roman, Times;">In addition, on the Effective Date, the Portfolio will no longer invest in stripped mortgage-backed securities or inverse floating rate obligations. Accordingly, all references to those investment types are hereby deleted from the Portfolio's Prospectus as of the Effective Date.</font></p> <br/><p align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 4.5pt 0pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><b>Please retain this supplement for future reference.</b></font></p> </rr:StrategyNarrativeTextBlock> | |||||||||||||||||||||
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