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LOGOLOGO

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST

1301 South Harrison Street

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802

[January 29, 2024]

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

Re: LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund[April 5, 2024]

Dear Contract Owners and Shareholders:

Enclosed is a notice and Proxy Statement relating to a Special MeetingYou currently have an investment interest in at least one series mutual fund of Shareholders of LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund (the “Fund”).

The Fund is a series ofthe Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”). The Special MeetingWe are writing to notify you of Shareholdersa special meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) of the Fund is scheduledLVIP funds, which are listed in Exhibit A (the “Funds”). You are being asked to provide instructions on how certain votes should be cast at the Meeting.

The Meeting will be held on [June 14, 2024] at [11:00 a.m. Eastern Time], in the offices of the Trust located at [150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087] on [March 15, 2024] at 11:00 a.m., Eastern time. At the Meeting, the shareholders of the Fund who are entitled to vote at the Meeting will be asked to approve the proposal described below.

You currently have an investment interest in the Fund. In the1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802. The attached Proxy Statement you are being asked to vote ondescribes in detail the change of sub-classification ofproposed agenda items for the Fund. Meeting.

The Fund is part of the Trust, and has been available as an investment option under variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (the “Contracts”) issued by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln Life”) and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (“Lincoln New York”).

On December 6, 2023, the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”), upon the recommendation of Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation (the “Adviser”), the investment adviser of the Fund,following proposals will be considered and approved the change in sub-classification of the Fund from “diversified” to “non-diversified” and the elimination of a related fundamental investment restriction (the “Proposal”) and agreed to submit to shareholders for approval.

The Board recommends that you vote “For” the Proposal as described in the enclosed Proxy Statement. Your vote is important – even if you elect to move to a new investment option before the Proposal.

Please read the Proxy Statement and consider it carefully before casting your voting instruction. We appreciate your participation and prompt response in this matter and thank you for your continued support.

You are cordially invited to attend the Meeting. Since it is important that your vote be represented whether or not you are able to attend, you are urged to consider these matters and to exercise your voting instructions by completing, dating, and signing the enclosed voting instruction card and returning it in the accompanying return envelope at your earliest convenience or by relaying your voting instructions via telephone or the Internet by following the enclosed instructions. For further information on how to provide voting instructions, please see the Contract Owners Voting Instructions included herein. Of course, we hope that you will be able to attend the Meeting, and if you wish, you may provide voting instructions in person, even though you may have already returned a voting instruction card or submitted your voting instructions via telephone or the Internet. Please respond promptly in order to save additional costs of proxy solicitation and in order to make sure you are represented.

If you have any questions about the Meeting, please feel free to call (800) 4LINCOLN (454-6265).


Sincerely,

/s/ Benjamin A. Richer

Benjamin A. Richer
Senior Vice President
Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust


LOGO

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST

Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders

LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund

Scheduled for [March 15, 2024]

Dear Contract Owners and Shareholders:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of Shareholders (“Meeting”) of the LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund (the “Fund”), a series of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”), is scheduled for [March 15, 2024] at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, to be heldacted upon at the offices of the Trust located at [150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087], for the following purposes:Meeting:

 

 (1)1.

To approve changingelect ten trustees to the Fund’s sub-classification from “diversified”Board of Trustees of the Trust;

2.

To authorize the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund to “non-diversified” and approve the eliminationrely on an SEC “Manager of a related fundamental investment restriction;Managers” order; and

 

 (2)3.

To transact such other business, not currently contemplated, that may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournment(s)adjournments or postponement(s) thereof, in the discretion of the proxies or their substitutes.postponements thereof.

Only shareholders of record at the close of business on [January 12, 2024] are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting and any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof. Owners of variable life insurance policies and variable annuity contracts having a beneficial interest in the Fund on the record date are entitled to vote as though they were direct shareholders of the Fund.

The shares of the FundFunds of the Trust are sold directly or indirectly primarily to separate accounts of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln Life”) and, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (“Lincoln New York”), and other unaffiliated insurance companies that support certain variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (the “Accounts”) issued by suchthose insurance companies. For convenience, contractContract owners policy holders, and planpolicy participants are referred to collectively herein as “Contract Owners.” Contract Owners have the right

You are being requested to instruct Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York as the record owners of shares of the Fund that are owned in the Accounts,or other unaffiliated insurance companies how to vote the shares of the FundFunds that are attributable to thoseyour Accounts at the Meeting.

Only shareholders of record who owned Fund shares at the close of business on [March 15, 2024] are entitled to vote at the Meeting and at any adjournments or postponements thereof. A shareholder of record as of the close of business on that date has the right to direct the persons listed on the enclosed proxy card as to how to vote its shares in the Fund(s). Only shareholders of record as of the Record Date in the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund are being asked to vote on Proposal 2.

To assist you, a voting instruction form or proxy card is enclosed. In addition, a Proxy Statement describing the matters to be voted on at the Meeting or any adjournment(s) thereof is attached to this Notice. The enclosed voting instruction form or proxy card is being solicited on behalf of the Board.Board of Trustees of the Trust.


We realize that you may not be able to attend the Meeting to provide voting instructions or vote your proxy in person. However, we do need your voting instructions or your vote. Whether or not you plan to attend the Meeting, please promptly complete, sign, and return theeach voting instruction form or proxy card included with this Proxy Statement in the enclosed postage-paid envelope or provide your voting instructions or proxy by mail, telephone, or through the Internet as explained in the enclosed Proxy Statement. Proxies must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on [March 13, 2024]. If you decide to attend the Meeting, you may revoke your prior voting instructions or proxy and provide voting instructions or your vote in person. The number of shares of theeach Fund attributable to you will be voted in accordance with your voting instruction form or proxy card.

If you have any questions about the Meeting, please feel free to call 1-800-4LINCOLN(454-6265).

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Trust,
/s/ Ronald A. Holinsky
Ronald A. Holinsky
Secretary

[April 5, 2024]

Important notice regarding the availability of proxy materials for the shareholder Meeting to be held on [June 14, 2024]: this Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders, Proxy Statement and the form of voting instruction and proxy card are available on the Internet at [https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33894].


LOGO

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST

1301 South Harrison Street

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802

PROXY STATEMENT

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

TO BE HELD ON [June 14, 2024]

You currently have an investment interest in at least one series mutual fund of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”). There will be a special meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) of the LVIP funds, which are listed in Exhibit A (the “Funds”). You are being asked to provide instructions on how certain votes should be cast at the Meeting.

The Trust’s Board of Trustees is furnishing this Proxy Statement to you in connection with the solicitation of voting instructions and proxies for the Meeting. The Meeting will be held at the offices of the Trust at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on [June 14, 2024].

The Board is soliciting voting instructions/proxies with respect to the following proposals (each a “Proposal,” collectively the “Proposals”):

Proposal

Who Votes on the Proposal?

1.  To elect ten trustees to the Board of Trustees.

Shareholders of the Trust with shareholders of all Funds voting together

2.  To authorize the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund to rely on an SEC “Manager of Managers” order.

Shareholders of the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund

The shares of the Funds are sold directly or indirectly primarily to separate accounts of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln Life”), Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (“Lincoln New York”), and other unaffiliated insurance companies that support certain variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (the “Accounts”) issued by such companies. Contract owners and policy participants are referred to collectively as “Contract Owners.”

You are being requested to instruct Lincoln Life, Lincoln New York or other unaffiliated insurance companies how to vote the shares of the Funds that are attributable to your Accounts at the Meeting.

Only shareholders of record who owned Fund shares at the close of business on [March 15, 2024] (the “Record Date”) are entitled to vote at the Meeting and at any adjournments or postponements thereof. A shareholder of record on the Record Date has the right to direct the persons listed on the enclosed proxy card as to how to vote its shares in the Fund(s).

To the extent that any shares of a Fund are owned directly by a Fund that operates as a “fund of funds” those shares will be voted directly by the fund of funds in the same proportion as all other votes received from the other holders of the underlying Funds’ shares (so called “echo voting”).

The date of the first mailing of the voting instruction form, proxy card and this Proxy Statement to shareholders and to the corresponding Contract Owners will be on or about [April 5, 2024]. If you have any questions about the Meeting, please feel free to call us toll free at 1-800-4LINCOLN(454-6265).

It is important for you to provide voting instructions or vote on the proposalProposals described in this Proxy Statement. We recommend that you read this Proxy Statement in its entirety as the explanations will help you to decide how to vote on the proposal.Proposals.


The date of the first mailing of the proxy card and this Proxy Statement to shareholders and to the corresponding Contract Owners will be on or about [January 29, 2024]. If you have any questions about the Meeting, please feel free to call us toll free at (800) 4LINCOLN (454-6265).

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Trust
/s/ Samuel K. Goldstein
Samuel K. Goldstein, Esq.
Assistant Secretary
[January 29, 2024]

Important notice regarding the availability of proxy materials for the shareholder Meeting to be held on [March 15, 2024]: this Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders, Proxy Statement and the form of voting instruction and proxy card are available on the Internet at [https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33715].


PROXY STATEMENT

[January 29, 2024]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTIONFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

   2 

BACKGROUNDVOTING PROCEDURES

   23 

SUMMARYPROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF THE PROPOSAL

2

THE PROPOSALTRUSTEES

   4 

Who are the nominees for Trustee?

4

What are the business backgrounds and other qualifications of the nominees?

6

What are the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees?

8

How are nominees for Trustee selected?

9

Do the Trustee Nominees have an ownership interest in the Funds?

9

How often does the Board meet and how are the Independent Trustees compensated?

10

Who are the officers of the Trust?

11

What is the Board recommending?

11

What is the required vote to approve the Proposal?

11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUTPROPOSAL 2: APPROVAL TO AUTHORIZE THE PROPOSALLVIP BLACKROCK GLOBAL ALLOCATION FUND TO RELY ON THE MANAGER OF MANAGERS ORDER

   611

Manager of Managers Order

11 

SHAREHOLDER AND VOTING INFORMATION

   612

Share Ownership

12

Voting Information

13

Revocation of Voting Instructions and Proxies.

13

Quorum

13

Votes Necessary to Approve Proposal

14

Effect of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

14

Adjournment

14

Other Business

14

Information About the Adviser

15

Contract Owner and Shareholder Proposals

15

Communications to the Board

15 

OTHER INFORMATION

   815

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

15

Householding

16

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports

16

EXHIBIT A – LVIP Funds

A-1

EXHIBIT B – Trust Nominating and Governance Committee Charter

B-1

EXHIBIT C – Officers of the Trust

C-1

EXHIBIT D – Outstanding Shares as of the Record Date

D-1

EXHIBIT E – Shareholders Owning 5% or More of a Fund as of the Record Date

E-1 

 

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PROXY STATEMENT

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF THE

LVIP T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND

TO BE HELD ON [MARCH 15, 2024]

Relating to the Reclassification of the LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund

INTRODUCTIONFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

This proxy statement (“Proxy Statement”) relates to a Special Meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) of the LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund (the “Fund”), a series of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”), to be held on [March 15, 2024]. As more fully described in this Proxy Statement, the purpose of the Meeting is for shareholders to consider and to vote on the proposed change of sub-classification of the Fund from “diversified” to “non-diversified” and the elimination of a fundamental investment restriction that requires the Fund to be diversified (the “Proposal”).

In connection with this Proxy Statement, please note the following:

 

·Q:

TheWhat Proposal will not affect the value of a Contract Owner’s investments.

·

The Proposal will not be a taxable transactionam I being asked to vote for Contract Owners.

·

The Adviser will bear all expenses associated within this Proxy Statement and the Proposal.

·

Every vote counts.

BACKGROUND

The Fund is available as an investment option under variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (the “Contracts”) issued or administered by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln Life”), an Indiana insurance company located at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802, and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, a New York insurance company located at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1860, Syracuse, NY 13202 (“Lincoln New York” and, together, “Lincoln”). Contract owners who selected the Fund for investment through a Lincoln Contract (the “Contract Owners”) have a beneficial interest in the Fund, but do not directly hold shares of the Fund. Lincoln, which uses the Fund as a funding vehicle, is the shareholder of record of the Fund and, as the legal owner of the Fund’s shares, has sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares, but passes through any voting rights to Contract Owners. Accordingly, for ease of reference throughout this Proxy Statement, Contract Owners also may be referred to as “shareholders.”

Upon the recommendation of Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation, the Fund’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”), the Trust’s Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, considered and approved the Proposal and authorized sending a proxy statement to shareholders and Contract Owners of the Fund to solicit approval of the Proposal.

The Board recommends that Contract Owners of the Fund approve the Proposal.

SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSAL

The Proposal provides for the reclassification of the Fund from diversified to non-diversified on or about [April 5, 2024] (the “Reclassification Date”). We recommend that you read the enclosed Proxy Statement. In addition to the detailed information in the Proxy Statement, the following questions and answers provide an overview of key information about the Reorganization.

2


Q.

Why are we sending you the Proxy Statement?

 

A.A:

WeProposal 1: Election of Trustees. At meetings on June 6, 2023 and March 5, 2024, the Board, including the Independent Trustees (as defined below), and the Nominating and Governance Committee, nominated and/or recommended ten individuals for election or re-election to the Board. Shareholders are asking youasked to approveelect the Trustee Nominees (as defined below) to serve as Trustees. If elected, each Trustee will serve until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her resignation, death or retirement. It has been five years since a changemeeting of shareholders was last held to elect members of the Board, and changes since that time in the Fund’s diversification status. On December 6, 2023,composition of the Board approvednow necessitate a meeting to elect the change in sub-classification of the Fund from “diversified” to “non-diversified” and the elimination of a related fundamental investment restriction and agreed to submit to shareholders for approval. You are receiving the enclosed Proxy Statement in connection with a special shareholder meeting of the Fund. At the special meeting, shareholders of the Fund will be asked to vote on the approval of the Proposal.

Q.

Why has the Board approved the Proposal?

A.

The Fund is sub-classified as a diversified fund. A diversified fund must limit all investments greater than 5% of its assets in any one issuer to no more than, in the aggregate, 25% of the fund’s assets. However, for the past several years, the Fund and its benchmark index have had a high concentration of investments that are greater than 5% of the Fund’s assets in any one issuer, which, at times, has impacted the Fund’s ability to execute its investment strategy. As a non-diversified fund, the Fund could invest a greater portion of its assets in any one issuer and invest overall in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund. The Fund’s portfolio managers believe that the proposed change will allow the Fund to better implement its investment strategy in accordance withTrustee Nominees. Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended (the “1940 Act”). at least two-thirds of the Trustees must be elected by shareholders.

Proposal 2: Approval To Authorize the LVIP Blackrock Global Allocation Fund To Rely On The Manager Of Managers Order. At a meeting on March 5, 2024, the Board, including the Independent Trustees (as defined below), approved the preparation and filing of this proxy statement to shareholders of the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund. Shareholders are being asked to authorize this Fund’s reliance on an SEC “Manager of Managers” order that would permit Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation (“LFI”), the Fund’s manager, or any other entity under common control with LFI that serves as an adviser to the Fund (together, the “Manager”) subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, to appoint subadvisers, and enter into, and materially amend, subadvisory agreements for the Fund without further shareholder approval (the “Manager of Managers Order”). Because the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund was a replacement fund in a recent “substitution,” the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company SEC “substitution” order (the “Substitution Order”)1 requires fund shareholders to re-approve the Manager of Managers Order before LFI can rely on the Manager of Managers Order for this fund.

 

Q.

What will happen if the Proposal is approved?

A.

Shareholders of the Fund are being asked to approve changing the Fund’s sub-classification from a diversified fund to a non-diversified fund, as defined under the 1940 Act. The changes will give the Fund the ability to invest a greater percentage of its assets in the obligations or securities of a smaller number of issuers or any one issuer than a diversified fund. Shareholders should note that if the changes in the Fund’s sub-classifications to “non-diversified” are approved, the Fund’s risk profile may increase (for additional information, see “Proposal” below).

Q.

Will the Reclassification impact my interest in the Fund if the Proposal is approved?

A.

The Proposal is not expected to affect the value of your interest in the Fund.

Q.

Will I have to pay federal income taxes as a result of the Reclassification?

A.

The Reclassification will not result in a taxable event for Contract Owners.

Q.

Who will pay the costs of the Proposal?

A.

The Fund will bear the expenses of the Proposal, including preparation of this Proxy Statement, printing and distributing the proxy materials, the costs of soliciting and tallying voting instructions, regulatory filings, legal fees, and expenses of holding shareholders’ meetings. The Adviser estimates the expenses of the Proposal will total approximately [$50,000].

Q.

What will happen if shareholders of the Fund do not approve the Proposal?

A.

If the Proposal is not approved, the Fund will continue to operate as a diversified fund, as defined under the 1940 Act, and the Fund’s related fundamental investment restriction on diversification will remain in effect.

Q.

When will the Reclassification occur?

A.

The Reclassification is expected to be completed on or about [April 5, 2024].

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Q.Q:

How doesdo the BoardTrustees recommend that I vote?

 

A.A:

The Board unanimouslyof Trustees recommends that you provide voting instructions or vote in favorto approve both of the Proposal.Proposals.

 

Q.Q:

How cando I attend the Special Meeting?provide voting instructions or vote my interest in Fund shares?

 

A.A:

The Special MeetingYou may provide voting instructions or vote your interest in Fund shares by the Internet, by mail or by telephone.

Q:

Who will pay for the costs of the preparation, printing and mailing of this Proxy Statement?

A:

All mailing, printing, legal, proxy solicitation and tabulation expenses associated with the expense of the Proposals will be an in-person meeting of shareholders, which will be held on [ March 15, 2024] at 11:00 am EST atborne by the offices of the Trust located at [150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087]. You are entitled to participate in the Special Meeting only if you were a shareholder of the Fund as of the close of business on the Record Date. No physical meeting will be held.Trust.

You will

1

See SEC Notice (Rel. No. IC-30468, April 18, 2013) and SEC Order (Rel. No. IC-30517, May 14, 2013).

2


VOTING PROCEDURES

[Contract Owners and Shareholders are urged to designate their choices on each of the matters to be ableacted upon by using one of the following three methods:

BY INTERNET

Read the Proxy Statement.

Go to attend the Specialvoting link found on your voting instruction form or proxy card, or scan the QR code found on the proxy card.

Follow the instructions using your voting instruction form or proxy card as a guide.

Do not mail the voting instruction form or proxy card if you provide voting instructions or vote by Internet.

BY MAIL

Read the Proxy Statement.

Date, sign, and return the enclosed voting instruction form or proxy card in the envelope provided, which requires no postage if mailed in the United States.

BY TELEPHONE

Read the Proxy Statement.

Call the toll-free number found on your voting instruction form or proxy card.

Follow the recorded instructions using your voting instruction form or proxy card as a guide.

Do not mail the voting instruction form or proxy card if you provide voting instructions by telephone.

If you have any questions about the Meeting or anything in this Proxy Statement, please feel free to call us toll free at in-person1-800-4LINCOLN at(454-6265).]

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PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF TRUSTEES

(All Funds)

Shareholders of each of the time and location noted aboveFunds are being asked to elect ten Trustees to serve on the Trust’s Board of Trustees.

THE PROPOSALWho are the nominees for Trustee?

ReasonsThe nominees are: Jayson R. Bronchetti, Steve A. Cobb, Peter Finnerty, Ken C. Joseph, Barbara L. Lamb, Thomas A. Leonard, Pamela L. Salaway, Manisha A. Thakor, Brian W. Wixted, and Nancy B. Wolcott (the “Trustee Nominees”). Six current members of the Board of Trustees, Messrs. Cobb, Leonard, and Wixted and Mmes. Lamb, Salaway, and Wolcott, are standing for re-election by shareholders. Three current members of the Board of Trustees, Messrs. Bronchetti and Joseph and Ms. Thakor, were previously elected by the Board and will stand for election by shareholders as Trustees for the Proposal

The Fundfirst time. Mr. Finnerty is not currently sub-classifieda member of the Board of Trustees. Among the Trustee Nominees, Mr. Bronchetti is an “interested person” of the Trust as “diversified” for purposes of Section 5(b)(1) ofthat term is defined in the 1940 Act. AsMr. Bronchetti is an interested person of the Trust because he is a diversified fund,Director and President of the Fund is limited asTrust’s investment adviser, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation, and a Chief Investment Officer of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, the parent company of the Trust’s investment adviser. The remaining Trustee Nominees would be deemed to be “Independent Trustees” (i.e., Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the amount itTrust). Please refer to “How are nominees for Trustee selected?” for further detail on the nomination process.

Under the 1940 Act, generally, no person may invest in any single issuer. Specifically, for 75% of its total assets, the Fund currently may not invest in a security if,serve as a resultmember of such investment, more than 5%a mutual fund board of its total assets (calculated attrustees unless that person was elected as a trustee by the time of purchase) would be invested inoutstanding voting securities of any one issuer. In addition, for 75%the fund. However, a new trustee may be appointed by the existing board members if immediately after such appointment at least two-thirds of its total assets, the Fund may not hold more than 10%trustees then holding office have been elected to such office by the holders of the outstanding voting securities at an annual or special meeting of shareholders.

If elected, each Trustee Nominee will serve as Trustee until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified for office or until his or her earlier resignation, death or retirement. Trustees shall retire no later than the end of the calendar year in which the Trustee turns 75 years old. Thus, Mr. Leonard is scheduled to retire at the end of 2024. Each Trustee Nominee is currently available and has consented to be named in this Proxy Statement and to serve if elected.

The table below provides certain background information for each Trustee Nominee, including the number of Funds that the Trustee Nominee oversees.

INFORMATION ON THE TRUSTEE NOMINEES

Interested Trustee

Name, Address and
Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held With
the Funds

Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served

Principal
Occupation(s)
during Past
Five Years

Number of
Funds in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Trustee

Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
during Past Five
Years

Jayson R. Bronchetti*
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1979
Chairman and
Trustee
Since June 2021

Director and President, Lincoln Financial

Investments Corporation; Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company;

Formerly: Director, Senior Vice President, and Head of Funds Management.

123

Lincoln Financial

Investments Corporation; CITRS, Inc.

4


Independent Trustees

Name, Address and
Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held With
the Funds

Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served

Principal
Occupation(s)
during Past
Five Years

Number of
Funds in
Fund
Complex
Overseen by
Trustee

Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
during Past Five Years

Steve A. Cobb
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1971
TrusteeSince January 2013Managing Director, CID Capital (private equity firm)123None
Peter Finnerty**NomineeProposed for ElectionUS Mutual Fund Leader, Global Asset, Wealth Management Leader, and Partner of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (accounting firm)N/ANone
Ken C. Joseph
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1962
TrusteeSince January 2022

Managing Director & Head of Financial Services

Compliance and Regulatory Consulting in the Americas, Kroll LLC

123

Board of Directors of

University Settlement; Board of Directors of

Harvard Kennedy School NY/NJ/CT Alumni Network (President)Board of

Directors of the University of North Carolina, School of Law Alumni Association

Barbara L. Lamb
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1954
TrusteeSince February 2019

Retired; Formerly:

Managing Director for Finance and

Administration, WH

Trading, LLC (derivatives trading firm) (2016-2022)

123South Suburban Humane Society
Thomas A. Leonard
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1949
TrusteeSince December 2013Retired123Copeland Capital Trust since 2010 (3 portfolios)
Pamela L. Salaway
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1957
TrusteeSince December 2013Retired123None
Manisha A. Thakor
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1970
TrusteeSince January 2022Independent Consultant of MoneyZen LLC; Formerly: Vice President, Brighton Jones123Board Member at The National Endowment for Financial Education since 2017
Brian W. Wixted
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1959
TrusteeSince February 2019

Managing Member, Brian Wixted, LLC; Formerly: Senior Consultant, CKC Consulting and an Advisory Partner, AI Capital; Formerly: Senior Vice President, Finance, and Fund Treasurer,

Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. (mutual fund complex)

123Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust since 2020 (1 portfolio)
Nancy B. Wolcott
1301 S. Harrison Street,
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1954
TrusteeSince October 2017Retired123FundVantage Trust since 2011 (32 portfolios); Third Avenue Trust since 2019 (4 portfolios); Third Avenue Variable Series Trust since 2019 (1 portfolio); Polen Credit Opportunities Fund since 2023 (1 portfolio)

**

Peter Finnerty is a nominee for Trustee and is not currently serving as a Trustee.

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What are the business backgrounds and other qualifications of the nominees?

The following is a brief description of the experience and attributes of each Trustee that led the Board to conclude that each Trustee (including each Trustee Nominee) is qualified to serve on the Board of the Trust. The information may assist in your decision on whether to vote in favor of a Trustee’s election. References to the experience and attributes of Trustees are pursuant to requirements of the SEC and are not holding out the Board or any one issuer.Trustee as having any special expertise and shall not impose any greater responsibility or liability on any Trustee or the Board.

Jayson R. Bronchetti. Mr. Bronchetti has served as Director and President of Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation since August 2016. Mr. Bronchetti also serves as an officer of The restrictionsLincoln National Life Insurance Company. Mr. Bronchetti joined Lincoln Financial Group in Section 5(b)(1) do not apply2013. Mr. Bronchetti previously served as Executive Director of Debt Capital Markets for J.P. Morgan. He has also held positions in private equity, fixed income asset management, credit research, and trading with Macquarie Investments and Bank of America. He is a founding Chapter Executive of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) Society of Philadelphia and has served as a board member on several private equity owned companies and charitable foundations. Mr. Bronchetti received a bachelor’s degree in finance, with a minor in economics, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also a graduate of the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Bronchetti is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia, and holds Series 7, Series 79, and Series 63 securities licenses.

Steve A. Cobb. Mr. Cobb has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2013. He is currently a Managing Partner of CID Capital (CID), a private equity firm he joined in 2001. Mr. Cobb often serves as a director of portfolio companies in which CID invests. He has previously served as a director of multiple other companies. Mr. Cobb is a founder and past Director of the Indiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. He is a past director of several community non-profit organizations. Prior to investmentsjoining CID, Mr. Cobb was a finance manager with Procter & Gamble where he held a variety of operational and financial roles, including financial analysis, accounting, and internal controls. Through his experience, Mr. Cobb provides the Board with over twenty years of financial, accounting and business management insight.

Peter Finnerty. Mr, Finnerty isa Trustee Nominee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust. He is currently a partner of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP where he currently serves as US Mutual Fund Leader and Global Asset & Wealth Management Leader. Mr. Finnerty joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC (“PwC”) in 1985 and has served as a partner since 1996 to the firm’s domestic and international investment management clients. Mr. Finnerty is scheduled to retire from PwC on June 30, 2024. Mr. Finnerty holds a Certified Public Accountant designation and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Through his experience, Mr. Finnerty provides the Board with accounting, auditing and financial services industry experience.

Ken C. Joseph. Mr. Joseph has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2022. He is currently a Managing Director & Head of Financial Services Compliance and Regulatory Consulting in the Americas for Kroll LLC (formerly Duff & Phelps, LLC). Mr. Joseph previously served for over 20 years at the U.S. governmentSecurities & Exchange Commission, including as Associate Director/Senior Officer in the Division of Examinations (formerly known as the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations), and as an Assistant Director in the Division of Enforcement. He previously served as an Associate Dean of St. John’s University, NY. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Kennedy School NY/NJ/CT Alumni Network (President), University Settlement, and the University of North Carolina, School of Law Alumni Association. Mr. Joseph provides the board with compliance, securities securitieslaw and business experience.

Barbara L. Lamb. Ms. Lamb has served as a Trustee of otherLincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2019. She retired from WH Trading LLC in 2022. Ms. Lamb served as a Managing Director of Finance and Administration for WH Trading LLC from 2015-2022. She previously served as a Managing Director of Cheiron Trading LLC from 2012-2015 and a Financial Officer for Valorem Law Group, LLC from 2008-2009. Previously, she served as Chief Development Officer for Market Liquidity, LLC from 1999-2001. Ms. Lamb served as Chief Credit Officer, Senior Vice President, and Director for The Chicago Corporation from 1986-1998 and in several finance and development positions from 1980-1986. Ms. Lamb holds the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and is a member of the CFA Institute of Chicago. Through her experience, Ms. Lamb provides the board with risk management and investing insight.

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Thomas A. Leonard. Mr. Leonard has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2013. Mr. Leonard retired from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP in 2008, where he had served as Financial Services Industry Leader in the firm’s Philadelphia office from 2000-2008 and from 1982-2008 as a Partner providing services to clients predominately in the asset management business with a focus on global fund complexes and insurance company retail and variable funds. Mr. Leonard is currently a board member of Copeland Capital Trust and was previously a board member of AlphaOne Capital and WT Mutual Fund. Since 2012, Mr. Leonard has served as a consultant to the FundVantage Trust. Through his experience, Mr. Leonard provides the Board with accounting, auditing and financial services industry experience.

Pamela L. Salaway. Ms. Salaway has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2013. Ms. Salaway retired from the Bank of Montreal/Harris Financial Corp in 2010 where she most recently had served as Chief Risk Officer of BMO’s U.S. operations from 2007 to 2009 and as the Harris Financial Corp Personal & Commercial Line of Business Chief Credit Officer/Chief Risk Officer from 2007 to 2010. From 2000 to 2006, she served in a variety of Executive Management positions within the Risk Management Group of BMO Harris Bank. During this time, she participated in audit committee meetings of the board and coordinated risk oversight committee meetings of the board. Through her experience, Ms. Salaway provides the Board with risk management and business experience.

Manisha A. Thakor. Ms. Thakor has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2022. Ms. Thakor currently serves at MoneyZen LLC, which she founded in 2009. From 2018-2020, Ms. Thakor served as Vice President at Brighton Jones. From 2015-2017, Ms. Thakor served as Director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham Financial. She is a Board member of The National Endowment for Financial Education. Ms. Thakor is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Ms. Thakor provides the Board with investment management experience and financial services industry insight.

Brian W. Wixted. Mr. Wixted has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2019. Mr. Wixted formerly served as a consultant for CKC Consulting and since 2019, as an Advisory Partner with AI Capital. Mr. Wixted served as the Senior Vice President of Finance and Fund Treasurer of the Oppenheimer Funds from 1999-2016. He served as the Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Bankers Trust Company’s Mutual Funds Group from 1995-1999 and the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for CS First Boston Investment Management Corp from 1991-1995. Mr. Wixted served as Vice President and Accounting Manager with Merrill Lynch Asset Management from 1987-1991. From 1981-1987, he held several accounting positions with brokerage and accounting firms. Mr. Wixted holds a Certified Public Accountant designation and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Through his experience, Mr. Wixted provides mutual fund, investment management and financial services industry insight.

Nancy B. Wolcott. Ms. Wolcott has served as a Trustee of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust since 2017. She was Executive Vice President and Head of GFI Client Service Delivery at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing from 2012 to 2014. Ms. Wolcott served as Executive Vice President and Head of U.S. Funds Services at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing from July 2010 to January 2012. She served as the President of BNY Mellon Distributors Holdings Inc. (formerly, PNC Global Investment Servicing Inc.) from December 2008 to July 2010 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, Ms. Wolcott served as Executive Vice President of the predecessor firm, PFPC Worldwide Inc., from 2006 to 2007. She joined PNC in 1996 and served as its Executive Vice President with PNC Advisors before coming to Global Investment Servicing in 2000. Prior to PNC, she served as the Head of Corporate and Institutional Trust at HarrisBank/Bank of Montreal. Through her experience, Ms. Wolcott provides banking and financial services industry insight.

Each Trustee also has familiarity with the Trust, its investment adviser and distributor, and their operations, as well as the special regulatory requirements governing regulated investment companies (for example,and the special responsibilities of investment company trustees.

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What are the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees?

The primary responsibility of the Board is to represent the interests of the Trust’s shareholders and to provide oversight of the management of the Funds. The Trust’s primary day-to-day operations are managed by the investment adviser and other funds), cashservice providers who have been approved by the Board. The Board is currently comprised of nine Trustees, eight of whom are classified under the 1940 Act as “non-interested” persons of the Trust (Independent Trustees) and cash items.one of whom is classified as an interested person of the Trust (Interested Trustee). The Interested Trustee Nominee, Mr. Bronchetti, serves as the Chairperson of the Board.

As part of its general oversight of the Trust, the Board is involved in the risk oversight of the Trust. The Board/Investment Committee reviews the Funds’ investment performance with the adviser at each of its regularly scheduled quarterly meetings. In addition, the Fund currentlyBoard must approve any material changes to a Fund’s investment policies or restrictions. With respect to compliance matters, the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer provides the annual compliance report required by Rule 38a-1 under the 1940 Act, and meets with the Audit Committee at its quarterly meetings.

The Board considered the number of Funds in the Trust, the Trust’s total assets, and the general nature of the Funds’ investments and determined that its leadership structure is appropriate given the characteristics of the Trust.

The Board has a fundamentalLead Independent Trustee that serves as the primary liaison between the Trust’s management and the Independent Trustees. The Lead Independent Trustee works with management in setting the agenda for Board meetings. The Lead Independent Trustee is selected by the Independent Trustees and serves until a successor is selected. Ms. Wolcott currently serves as the Lead Independent Trustee.

Generally, the Board acts by majority vote of all the Trustees, including a majority vote of the Independent Trustees if required by applicable law. The Board establishes the policies and reviews and approves contracts and their continuance. The Board regularly requests and/or receives reports from the investment restrictionadviser, the Trust’s other service providers and the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer. The Board has established three standing committees and has delegated certain responsibilities to those committees. The Board and its committees meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the Trust’s activities, review the Funds’ expenses, oversee compliance with regulatory requirements and review investment performance. The Independent Trustees are represented by independent legal counsel at Board meetings.

A description of the composition and responsibilities of the Board committees follows:

Audit Committee. The Board has established an Audit Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the Funds’ financial reporting process on diversification,behalf of the Board and for reporting the result of their activities to the Board. The Audit Committee assists and acts as a liaison with the Board in fulfilling the Board’s responsibility to shareholders of the Trust and others relating to oversight of Fund accounting, the Trust’s systems of control, and the quality and integrity of the financial statements, financial reports, and the audit of the Trust. In addition, the Audit Committee oversees the Trust’s accounting policies, financial reporting and internal control systems. The members of the Audit Committee are Independent Trustees: Brian W. Wixted (Chair), Ken C. Joseph, Barbara L. Lamb and Thomas A. Leonard. The Audit Committee met four times during the last fiscal year.

Investment Committee. The Board has established an Investment Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the performance of the Funds and other tasks as requested by the Board. The members of the Investment Committee include Independent Trustees: Steve A. Cobb (Chair), Pamela L. Salaway, Manisha A. Thakor, and Nancy B. Wolcott. The Investment Committee met four times during the last fiscal year.

Nominating and Governance Committee. The Board has established a Nominating and Governance Committee. The Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for, among other things, the identification, evaluation and nomination of potential independent trustee candidates to serve on the Board. The Board has adopted a charter for the Nominating and Governance Committee setting forth such Committee’s responsibilities. A copy of the charter is included as Exhibit B to this Proxy Statement. The members of the Nominating and Governance Committee are Independent Trustees: Manisha A. Thakor (Chair), Steve A. Cobb, Ken C. Joseph, Barbara L. Lamb, Thomas A. Leonard, Pamela L. Salaway, Brian W. Wixted, and Nancy Wolcott. The Nominating and Governance Committee met four times during the last fiscal year.

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How are nominees for Trustees selected?

The Nominating and Governance Committee is responsible for identifying and nominating candidates for Board membership as Independent Trustees through personal and business contacts of the Trustees. In addition, the Committee may only be changed withuse a search firm to identify candidates for the Board, if deemed necessary and appropriate to use such a firm. The Committee’s process for evaluating Independent Trustee candidates generally includes a review of the candidate’s background and experience and other due diligence as the Committee deems appropriate.

The Nominating and Governance Committee independently evaluates independent trustee candidates for Board membership. The Nominating and Governance Committee has not established any specific requirements that a candidate must meet in order to recommend the candidate to the Board to serve as a Trustee. In considering candidates for Board membership, the Committee takes into account a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to: (i) availability and commitment of a candidate to attend meetings and perform his or her responsibilities on the Board; (ii) relevant industry and related experience; (iii) educational background; (iv) financial expertise; (v) an assessment of the candidate’s ability, judgment and expertise; and (iv) the overall diversity of the Board’s composition. While the Nominating and Governance Committee considers overall diversity as a factor in evaluating the composition of the Board, the Committee does not have a formal policy in this regard.

In nominating Mr. Finnerty, Mr. Joseph and Ms. Thakor, the three Trustee Nominees who qualify as Independent Trustees and who were not previously elected by shareholders, the Board considered the factors listed above in addition to the business background and attributes of each such nominee set forth in this Proxy Statement. Mr. Joseph and Ms. Thakor are current Board members having been elected by the Board effective January 1, 2022, considering the same factors described above.

The Nominating and Governance Committee will accept shareholder approval. This fundamentalrecommendations for nomination to the Board. Shareholders who wish to submit recommendations for nominations to the Board must submit their recommendations in writing to the Trust’s Nominating and Governance Committee, c/o The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, P.O. Box 2340, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801. Shareholders should include appropriate information on the background and qualifications of any person recommended to the Nominating and Governance Committee (e.g., a resume), as well as the candidate’s contact information and a written consent from the candidate to serve if nominated and elected.

Do the Trustee Nominees have an ownership interest in the Funds?

As of December 31, 2023, the dollar range of equity securities owned beneficially by each current Trustee and any new nominee for Trustee in the Funds and in any registered investment restrictioncompanies overseen by the Trustees within the same family of investment companies as the Funds is proposed to change as follows:

 

CurrentProposed

[The Fund may not ...,] With respect to 75%Name of its total assets, invest in a security if, as a result of such investment: (a) more than 5% of its total assets would be invested in the securities of any one issuer or (b) the fund would hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer; except that these restrictions do not apply to (i) securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities or (ii) securities of other investment companies.Trustee

  

None.Dollar Range of Equity Securities in the Funds

Aggregate Dollar Range of Equity
Securities in All Registered Investment
Companies Overseen by Trustee in
Family of Investment Companies

Jayson R. BronchettiNoneNone
Steve A. CobbLVIP Baron Growth Opportunities Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP Dimensional U.S. Equity Managed Volatility Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA S&P 500 Index Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
Over $100,000
Ken C. JosephLVIP Vanguard Domestic Equity ETF Fund – $50,001 – $100,000$50,001 – $100,000
Peter FinnertyNoneNone

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Barbara L. LambLVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 1 Fund – $10,001 – $50,000 LVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP Dimensional International Core Equity Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP Vanguard Bond Allocation Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
Over $100,000
Thomas A. LeonardLVIP Structured Moderate Allocation Fund – Over $100,000Over $100,000
Pamela L. SalawayLVIP Baron Growth Opportunities Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP Mondrian International Value Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA S&P 500 Index Fund – Over $100,000
Over $100,000
Manisha A. ThakorLVIP SSGA Small Cap Index Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA Nasdaq-100 Index Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
$50,001 – $100,000
Brian W. WixtedLVIP SSGA S&P 500 Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA Bond Index Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA Short-Term Bond Index Fund – $10,001 – $50,000
LVIP SSGA Mid Cap Index Fund – Under $10,000
LVIP SSGA Small-Cap Index Fund – Under $10,000
$50,001 – $100,000
Nancy B. WolcottLVIP American Balanced Allocation Fund – $50,001 – $100,000$50,001 – $100,000

*

Peter Finnerty is a nominee for Trustee and is not currently serving as Trustee.

As shownThe aggregate dollar amount of securities owned beneficially by management in the Funds is less than 1% of the total assets of any Fund in the Trust.

How often does the Board meet and how are the Independent Trustees compensated?

Frequency of Board Meetings. The following table above, if shareholderssets forth information regarding the number of meetings held by the Board and the committees of the Board for the Trust’s most recently completed fiscal year end, December 31, 2023. Each current Trustee who served on the Board during the entirety of the Trust’s last fiscal year attended at least 75% of the Board meetings and of the meetings of committees on which the Trustee served.

   Board   Audit Committee   Investment Committee   Nominating and Governance
Committee
 

LVIP Trust

   6    4    4    4 

Board Compensation. The following table sets forth the compensation paid to the Independent Trustees by the Trust for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The Trust constitutes the entire fund complex. The Interested Trustee is not compensated by the Trust for his service to the Board. The Trustees receive no pension or retirement benefits accrued as part of the Trust Fund expenses.

Name of Person, Position

  Aggregate
Compensation from
the Trust
 

Steve A. Cobb, Trustee

  $346,500 

Ken C. Joseph, Trustee

  $322,500 

Peter Finnerty, Nominee**

   N/A 

Barbara L. Lamb, Trustee

  $322,500 

Gary D. Lemon, Trustee*

  $322,500 

Thomas A. Leonard, Trustee

  $390,500 

Charles I. Plosser, Trustee*

  $319,000 

Pamela L. Salaway, Trustee

  $322,500 

Manisha A. Thakor, Trustee

  $322,500 

Brian W. Wixted, Trustee

  $346,500 

Nancy B. Wolcott, Trustee

  $332,500 

*

Effective December 31, 2023, Dr. Lemon and Mr. Plosser retired as Independent Trustees of the Trust.

**

Peter Finnerty is a nominee for Trustee and is not currently serving as Trustee.

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Who are the officers of the Trust?

The Board appoints officers each year, and from time to time as necessary. The following individuals are executive officers of the Trust: Matthew L. Arnold, Matthew T. Berger, Jayson R. Bronchetti, Samuel K. Goldstein, Ronald A. Holinsky, James Hoffmayer, Michael C. Hoppe, Yun (Maria) Ma, Jennifer M. Matthews, Colleen E. O’ Leary, Benjamin A. Richer, Jay T. Shearon, John (Jack) A. Weston, Amber Williams, and Yajun (Alex) Zeng. Exhibit C includes biographic information and past business experience of each executive officer.

What is the Board recommending?

The Board is recommending that you provide voting instructions to vote FOR all nominees for Trustee.

What is the required vote to approve changingthe Proposal?

Approval of the Trustee Nominees requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of the shares of the Trust represented at the Meeting, which means that the ten Trustee Nominees who receive the largest number of properly cast votes will be elected as Trustees.

PROPOSAL 2: APPROVAL TO AUTHORIZE THE LVIP BLACKROCK GLOBAL ALLOCATION

FUND TO RELY ON THE MANAGER OF MANAGERS ORDER

(LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund)

Contract Owners with an interest in shares of the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund are being asked to authorize the Fund’s sub-classification from diversified to non-diversified, this fundamental investment restriction will be eliminated.reliance on the Manager of Managers Order.

IfThe Manager of Managers Order would permit the Proposal is approved by shareholders, the Fund will no longer beFund’s Manager, subject to the diversification limitation set forthapproval of the Board of Trustees, to appoint subadvisers, and enter into, and materially amend, subadvisory agreements for the fund without further shareholder approval. Because the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund was a replacement Fund in Section 5(b)(1)a recent substitution, in reliance on the Substitution Order, the shareholders must re-approve the Manager of Managers Order before the Manager can rely on it. Without the Manager of Managers Order, the Fund must call and hold a shareholder meeting, create and distribute proxy materials, and solicit shareholder votes before appointing new subadvisers or materially modifying subadvisory agreements. This process is time-intensive, costly, and slow. By avoiding the delay inherent in holding shareholder meetings, the Fund would be able to more quickly appoint a subadviser or materially amend a subadvisory agreement, when the Board of the Fund believes that such action would benefit the Fund.

If Fund shareholders do not approve the Fund’s reliance on the Manager of Managers Order, decisions regarding a proposed subadviser for the Fund or a material change to a subadvisory agreement with respect to that Fund will continue to require shareholder approval.

The Board recommends that you vote in favor of this Proposal to allow the Manager the flexibility to provide its investment management services to the Fund through one or more subadvisers and provide the Manager with the maximum flexibility to select, supervise and evaluate subadvisers – without incurring the delay or expense of obtaining further shareholder approval – because it will allow the Fund to operate more efficiently.

Manager of Managers Order

Provisions of the 1940 Act require that shareholders of a mutual fund approve any subadvisory agreement and any material amendments to a subadvisory agreement. The SEC, however, has issued the Manager of Managers Order, which permits the Manager to appoint subadvisers for the Fund and to amend subadvisory agreements without first obtaining shareholder approval.

Reliance on the Manager of Managers Order is subject to certain conditions. For example, within ninety days of the hiring of a new subadviser, the Fund is required to furnish shareholders with information that would have been included in a proxy statement regarding the new sub-adviser. In addition, the Manager is not permitted to hire affiliated sub-advisers without shareholder approval. The Manager of Managers Order also requires that the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, must approve any new subadviser and any new or amended

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subadvisory agreement for a Fund. In considering a new or existing subadvisory agreement, the Board is required to evaluate any material conflicts that may be present in a subadvisory arrangement. Further, after being a replacement fund in a substitution, based on the Substitution Order, the fund’s use of the Manager of Managers Order must be approved by shareholders of the Fund.

By relying on the Manager of Managers Order, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, a subadviser selected by the Manager could immediately manage the Fund’s current fundamental investment restrictions on diversification. Althoughassets. The Fund would inform shareholders of the hiring of any new subadviser within 90 days after hiring the subadviser by providing shareholders with an information statement that contains substantially the same information as the Fund would no longer be subjectrequired to send its shareholders in a proxy statement. Approval of the Manager of Managers Order will not affect any of the requirements under the federal securities laws that govern your Fund, the Manager, any proposed subadviser or any proposed subadvisory agreement with a subadviser, other than the requirement to have any future subadvisory agreement or amendment to the 1940 Act diversification restrictions,subadvisory agreement approved at a meeting of the FundFund’s shareholders. The Board, including the Independent Trustees, will continue to be subject to federal tax diversification restrictions of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “IRC”). For purposes of the IRC, the Fund operates as a “regulated investment company.” As such, the Fund must meet certain diversification requirements, including the requirement that, in general, at least 50% of the market value

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of its total assets at the close of each quarter of its taxable year must be invested in cash, cash equivalents, U.S. government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies,evaluate and securities of issuers (including foreign governments) with respect to which the Fund has invested no more than 5% of its total assets in securities of any one issuer and owns no more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any issuer. The Fund also must invest no more than 25% of the value of its total assets in securities (other than U.S. government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers that the Fund controls and is engaged in the same, similar or related trades or businesses or, collectively, in the securities of certain publicly traded partnerships. These limits apply only as of the close of each quarter of each Fund’s taxable year. These federal tax diversification requirements may change in the future without shareholder approval.

The asset classes in which the Fund invests have experienced fundamental changes that have made it difficult for the Fund to pursue their existing investment strategies while maintaining their 1940 Act diversification status. Over the course of the last ten years, the Fund’s asset classes have become increasingly dominated by a relatively small number of large companies and the significant outperformance of some of these companies, which has resulted in a higher level of concentration of these companies in the Fund’s asset class. In other words, these companies now represent a large percentage of the investment universes in which the Fund invests.

Due to these changes to the Fund’s investment universe, the Fund is not able to take positions in these companies as large as the respective portfolio management teams believe to be beneficial for the Fund’s portfolio because the Fund is limited in doing so to maintain its diversified status. (For a diversified fund,approve all investments greater than 5% in any one issuer may not exceed, in the aggregate, 25% of the fund’s assets.) Thus, changing the Fund’s sub-classification to non-diversified would provide the Fund with the flexibility to pursue its investment strategy given that the Adviser believes the high level of concentration in the Fund’s asset class will remain for the foreseeable future.

Shareholders should note that, if the changes in the Fund’s sub-classifications to “non-diversified” are approved, the Fund’s risk profile may increase. This is because the investment return on a non-diversified fund typically is dependent upon the performance of securities of a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund. Consequently, a non-diversified fund is more susceptible to adverse developments affecting the larger holdings in its portfolio than a diversified fund and may be more susceptible to greater losses because of such developments. Accordingly, if the Proposal is approved on behalf of the Fund, the Fund would potentially be subject to greater risk than it currently is.

Approval of the Proposal

The Board considered the recommendations of the Adviser to change the Fund’s sub-classification to non-diversified and to eliminate the Fund’s related fundamental investment restriction. The Board considered all relevant factors, including the potential impact on the Fund and its risk profile and the estimated costs associated with seeking shareholder approval of the proposed change for the Fund. Following its consideration of these matters, the Board unanimously approved the proposed change in the Fund’s sub-classification to “non-diversified” and the elimination of the Fund’s related fundamental investment restriction. It is anticipated that this Proposal, if approved, will be effective on or about [April 5, 2024].

If the Proposal is not approved by shareholders, the Fund will continue to operate as a diversified fund, as defined under the 1940 Act, and the Fund’s related fundamental investment restriction on diversification will remain in effect.

THE BOARD OF THE FUND UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR THE PROPOSAL

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSAL

Transfers out of the Fund

The Proposal will have no effect on transfers into or out of the Fund. Subject to the terms of their Contract, shareholders may transfer out of the Fund into any other investment option available under their Contract at any time prior to or after the effective date of the Proposal.

Failure to Approve the Proposal

If shareholders/Contract Owners of the Fund do not approve the Proposal, the Proposal will not be implemented. The Board then would meet to consider what, if any, steps to takenew subadvisory agreements with respect to the Fund suchbetween the Manager and any subadviser, as holding another votewell as all changes to any subadvisory agreement.

Approval of this Proposal will not affect your Fund’s fees. The Manager of Managers Order will not at any time entail an increase in the investment management fees paid by the Fund. The Fund’s Manager, and not the Fund, pays all subadvisory fees. Shareholder approval would be necessary to increase the investment management fees that are payable by the Fund, which is not contemplated. If the Fund relies on the Manager of Managers Order, the Manager, pursuant to its management agreement with the Fund, will continue, directly or continuingthrough subadvisers, to runprovide the same level of management services to the Fund as diversified.it provides currently.

What is the Board recommending?

The Board is recommending that you provide voting instructions to vote FOR the Fund to rely on the Manager of Managers Order.

What is the required vote to approve the Proposal?

Approval of this Proposal 2 is required to be approved by a “majority of the outstanding voting securities” of the Fund, which, under the 1940 Act, means an affirmative vote of the lesser of (a) 67% or more of the shares of the Fund present at the Meeting or represented by proxy if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.

SHAREHOLDER AND VOTING INFORMATION

Share Ownership

At the closeThe number of business on [January 12, 2024] (the “Record Date”), there were [XXXXXX] outstanding Standard Class shares of the Fund and [XXXXXX]Funds that were outstanding Service Class shares of the Fund. Both Standard Class and Service Class shares of the Fund are offered as investments within Lincoln Contracts. Lincoln Life and Lincoln New York are the record owners of the shares of the Fund underlying the Contracts, but are soliciting voting instructions from Contract Owners having contract value invested in the Fund (a beneficial interest) through their respective separate accounts.

Because the Fund is available as an investment for variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies offered by certain life insurance companies, the insurance companies could be deemed to control the voting securities of the Fund (i.e., by owning more than 25%). As of the Record Date is listed in the table in Exhibit D. Contract Owners that had an Account allocated to a Fund as of the Record Date are entitled to instruct Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York, owned [XXXXXX]or an unaffiliated insurance company, as appropriate, on the manner in which to vote Fund shares attributable to their variable annuity contract or variable life insurance policy at the Meeting. Record Date shareholders will be entitled to one vote for each full share and [XXXXXX] shares of the Fund, respectively, which represents [XX.XX%] and [XX.XX%] of the Fund’s outstanding shares, respectively. a fractional vote for each fractional share that they hold.

To the knowledge of the Trust, as of the Record Date, no currentperson, except as set forth in the table at Exhibit E, owned of record 5% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of any Fund. On the Record Date, no Trustee Nominee or Trustee or executive officer of the Trust owned any separate account units attributable to 1% or more than one percent of the assets of any class of theany Fund.

As of [January 12, 2024], there were no shareholders that held 5% or more of the outstanding shares of any share class of the Fund, except for the insurance company shareholders.

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Solicitation of ProxiesVoting Information

In addition to the solicitation of voting instruction forms and proxy cards by mail, officers and employees of the Trust, without additional compensation, may solicit voting and proxy instructions in person, by telephone, and electronically, including through the Internet. The Trust will also may engage a third-party vendor to solicit proxies from Contract Owners or shareholders. The agreement between GeorgesonComputershare Inc., a Delaware corporation (operating through its Computershare Fund Services division) (“CFS”) and Lincoln Life states that CFS will provide proxy solicitation and tabulation services for aan approximate fee, including out-of-pocket expenses, of approximately [$50,000]1,400,000].

All mailing, printing, legal, proxy solicitation and tabulation expenses incurred in connectionassociated with the preparationexpenses of this Proxy Statement and the solicitation of instructionsProposals will be paidborne by the Fund.Trust.

Voting Information

This Proxy Statement is being furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board. At the Meeting, Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York and any other unaffiliated insurance company will vote theeach Fund’s shares held in the Accounts, in accordance with the instructions received from Contract Owners whose purchase payments were invested, as of the Record Date, in the FundFunds by the Accounts. For all Accounts that support variable annuity contracts, the number of votes which a Contract Owner may cast when instructing an insurance companyInsurance Company how to vote is determined by applying the Contract Owner’s percentage interest in thea Fund to the total number of votes attributable to that Fund. In determining the Fund. Holdersnumber of votes, fractional shares will be recognized. The number of the Fundvotes which a Contract Owner of a variable life insurance policy may cast when instructing Lincoln Life, Lincoln New York or an unaffiliated insurance how to vote is determined as of the Record Date are entitled to one vote for each share held, and$100 of cash value. To the extent that any Fund shares are owned directly by a proportionate fractionFund that operates as a “fund of afunds,” such fund of funds will “echo” vote for each fractionthose shares directly in the same proportion as all other votes received from the other holders of a share held.the underlying Funds’ shares.

Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York and any other unaffiliated insurance companies will vote (i) shares owned by Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York;York or any other affiliated company; and (ii) the

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each Fund’s shares held by the Accounts for which no timely instructions are received, in proportion to the voting instructions which are received with respect to thesuch Fund even if only a relatively small number of Contract Owners provide voting instructions. Therefore, the vote of a small number of shareholders can affect the overall outcome since those fewer votes have a proportional impact. Lincoln Life and Lincoln New York will vote shares of the Fund held by each of their separate accounts in accordance with the proxy voting instructions received from its Contract Owners. If voting instructions are properly executed and received in a timely manner but they contain no voting directions, the votes represented by those instructions will be cast FOR the Proposal and Lincoln Life and Lincoln New York may vote in accordance with their judgment with respect to other matters not now known to the Board that may be presentedProposals considered at the Meeting.

Contract Owners may vote by mail, telephone, or InternetAll properly executed proxy cards received in advance oftime for the meeting. Voting instructions mustMeeting will be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on [March 13, 2024]. If you vote by mail,voted as specified in the voting instruction proxy card must be received at the address shown on the enclosed postage paid envelope. Contract Owners may also vote by attending the Meeting.or, if no specification is made, FOR each Proposal referred to in this Proxy Statement.

Revocation of Voting Instructions and Proxies

Any Contract Owner who provides voting instructions has the power to revoke the instructions by (1) delivering to the Secretary of the Trust (at the address of the Trust provided on the cover page of this proxy statement) written notice of revocation, or (2) submitting superseding voting instructions, in each case at any time prior to the date of the Meeting. Contract Owners may also revoke prior voting instructions by voting in person at the Meeting.

If you are a direct owner of Fund shares, you may revoke your proxy at any time before it is voted by sending a written notice to the Secretary of the Trust (at the address of the Trust provided on the cover page of this Proxy Statement) expressly revoking your proxy, by signing and forwarding to the Fund a later-dated proxy, or by attending the Meeting and voting in person.

Quorum

A quorum of shareholders is necessary to hold a valid meeting and to consider both Proposals at the Proposal in this Proxy Statement. HoldersMeeting. The holders of 3313% of the outstanding shares of the Fund on the Record Date, entitled to vote on a Proposal and present in person or by proxy at the Meeting, shallwill constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum a simple majority of outstanding shares entitled to vote, present in person or by proxy, may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum is present. Shares held by shareholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting (including Lincoln Lifefor that Proposal. Any abstentions and Lincoln New York) will be counted both for the purpose of determining the presence of a quorum and for calculating the votes cast on any proposal before the meeting. Since Lincoln Life and Lincoln New York are the owners of record of all of the outstanding shares of the Fund, a quorum is expected to be present at the Meeting.

Effects of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

Abstentions“broker non-votes” will be counted as present for purposes of establishingdetermining a quorum, butquorum. Shares that are subject to “echo” voting by Lincoln Life, Lincoln New York and any other unaffiliated insurance company also will notbe counted as present for purposes of determining a quorum.

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Votes Necessary to Approve Proposal

Approval of the Proposal 1 (election of Trustees) requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of the shares of the Trust represented at the Meeting, which means that the ten nominees who receive the largest number of properly cast votes will be elected as Trustees.

Approval of Proposal 2 (the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund’s reliance on the Manager of Managers Order) is required to be approved by a “majority of the outstanding voting securities” of the fund, which, under the 1940 Act, means an affirmative vote of the lesser of (a) 67% or more of the shares of the fund present at the Meeting or represented by proxy if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.

Effect of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

Abstentions and “broker non-votes” will count as votes cast. Accordingly,that are not cast at a meeting. A “broker non-vote” generally occurs when (i) a broker holds a beneficial owner’s shares in “street name,” (ii) the broker has not received share voting instructions from the beneficial owner, (iii) the broker does not have discretionary voting power on a proposal, even if it has general discretionary voting powers, because the proposal may “affect substantially” the beneficial owner’s rights or privileges of such shares; and (iv) the broker submits voting instructions on another proposal for which the broker has discretionary voting power. 

Since abstentions and broker non-votes will count as votes that are present and not cast, assuming there is quorum, they will have no effect on a proposal requiring approval by a plurality of votes cast and will have the same effect as an instruction toa vote “AGAINST”“against” a proposal requiring approval by a majority of outstanding voting securities. Proposal 1 (election of Trustees) requires approval by the Proposal. Eachaffirmative vote of Lincoln Lifea plurality of the shares of LVIP voted at the Meeting. Therefore, any abstentions and Lincoln New York will votebroker non-votes would count towards quorum but have no other effect on Proposal 1. Proposal 2 (the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund’s reliance on the Manager of Managers Order) requires approval by a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the LVIP Blackrock Global Allocation Fund, which means the lesser of (a) 67% or more of the shares of the Fund held in each of its separate accounts for which it has not received timely instructions (or for which a voting instruction proxy card is not properly executed) in the same proportion as it votes shares held by that separate account for which it has received instructions. If no instructions are received for a separate account, Lincoln Life and/or Lincoln New York will vote any shares held by such separate account in the same proportion as votes cast by all of its other separate accounts in the aggregate. Shareholders and Contract Owners permitted to give instructions, and the number of shares for which such instruction may be given for purposes of voting at the meeting and any adjournments thereof, will be determined as of the Record Date. As a result of this proportional voting, a small number of Contract Owners may determine the outcome of a vote.

A broker non-vote occurs in connection with a shareholder meeting when the shareholders are asked to consider both “routine” and “non-routine” proposals. In such a case, if a broker-dealer votes on the “routine” proposal, but does not vote on the “non-routine” proposal because (a) the shares entitled to cast the vote are held by the broker-dealer in “street name” for the beneficial owner, (b) the broker-dealer lacks discretionary authority to vote the shares; and (c) the broker- dealer has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner, a broker non-vote is said to occur with respect to the “non-routine” proposal. Because broker-dealers generally will not have discretionary authority to vote the shares held by the beneficial owners on the Proposal and the Proposal is the only item being submitted to shareholders for approvalpresent at the Meeting or represented by proxy if the Trustholders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Fund. Therefore, any abstentions and broker non-votes would count towards quorum and count as a vote against Proposal 2. However, LVIP does not expect there to be anyabstentions and broker non-votes onat the Proposal.Meeting.

Adjournment

In the event that sufficient votes to approve a proposalProposal are not received, the persons named as proxies may propose one

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or more adjournments of the Meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies. Any such adjournment will require an affirmative vote by the holders of a simple majority of the shares present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting. In determining whether to adjourn the Meeting with respect to a proposal,Proposal, the following factors may be considered: the percentage of votes actually cast, the percentage of negative votes actually cast, the nature of any further solicitation and the information to be provided to shareholders with respect to the reasons for the solicitation. Generally, votes cast in favor of a proposalProposal will be voted in favor of adjournment while votes cast against a proposalProposal will be voted against adjournment. The persons named as proxies will vote upon such adjournment after consideration of the best interests of all shareholders. As stated above, abstentions will have no effect on any proposal to adjourn the Meeting. A shareholder vote may be taken with respect to the FundTrust or one or more of the Funds on any (but not all) of the proposals prior to any adjournment as to which sufficient votes have been received for approval.

Other Matters to Come Before the MeetingBusiness

To the knowledge of the Board, there is no other business to be brought before the Meeting. However, if other matters do properly come before the Meeting, Lincoln Life, and Lincoln New York and any other unaffiliated companies intend to vote theeach Fund’s shares in accordance with the judgment of the Board on such matters. The persons named as proxies on the enclosed proxy card will vote their proxies in their discretion on any other items (other than the Proposal)Proposals) that properly come before the Meeting.

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Information About the Adviser

Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation (“LFI”), located at 50 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, PA 19087, serves as investment adviser for each Fund. LFI is a registered investment adviser and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. LFI’s address is 150 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. LFI (or its predecessors) has served as an investment adviser to mutual funds for over 30 years.

Contract Owner and Shareholder Proposals

Under authority granted to the Trustees by the Bylaws of the Trust,By-laws, and pursuant to applicable law, special meetings are called as required. Contract Owners or shareholders desiring to hold their own proxy solicitations in order to submit proposals in years in which the annual meeting is not held may require that a special meeting be called if they can obtain the written request of Contract Owners indirectly or shareholders directly, representing certain stipulated percentages of the outstanding voting securities of the affected Fund. The submission of a proposal does not guarantee its inclusion in the proxy statement and is subject to limitations under the Federalfederal securities laws. The Trust is not required to hold regular meetings of shareholders, and in order to minimize its costs, does not intend to hold meetings of shareholders unless so required by applicable law, regulation, regulatory policy, or unless otherwise deemed advisable by the Board or the Trust’s management. Therefore, it is not practicable to specify a date by which proposals must be received in order to be incorporated in an upcoming proxy statement for a meeting of shareholders. A Contract Owner or shareholder wishing to submit proposals for inclusion in a proxy statement for a subsequent shareholder meeting should send his or her written proposals to the Secretary of the Trust located at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802. Proposals must be received a reasonable time before thea Fund begins to print and mail the proxy materials for the meeting.Meeting. More detailed information on these procedures for Contract Owners or shareholders may be obtained from Lincoln Life, Lincoln New York or the Secretary of the Trust.

Communications to the Board

Shareholders/Contract OwnersShareholders who wish to communicate to the full Board or to any individual Trustee may address correspondence toto: LVIP Board of Trustees, c/o The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company at P.O.P. O. Box 2340, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802. Without opening any such correspondence, the Trust’sTrust management will promptly will forward all such correspondence to the intended recipient(s).

OTHER INFORMATION

Investment AdviserIndependent Registered Public Accounting Firm

At a meeting held on March 1, 2023, the Audit Committee of the Trust recommended the appointment, and the Board, including all of the Independent Trustees, selected Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”), One Commerce Square, Suite 700, 2005 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. In addition to the audits of the Trust’s financial statements, other services provided by E&Y include: review of certain regulatory reports; review the Funds’ federal income tax returns and performs other tax and advisory services when engaged to do so by the Trust; and meetings with the Audit Committee.

The Adviser is locatedAudit Committee must pre-approve all audit, audit related and non-audit services provided by E&Y prior to the commencement of any such engagement. The annual audit services engagement terms and fees are subject to the specific pre-approval of the Audit Committee. In addition to the annual audit services engagement approved by the Audit Committee, the Audit Committee may grant pre-approval to other audit services, which are those services that only the independent auditor reasonably can provide. Furthermore, pre-approval fee levels or budgeted amounts for all services to be provided by E&Y are approved annually by the Audit Committee. Any proposed services exceeding pre-approved levels or amounts require specific pre-approval by the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee monitors the audit services engagements, as necessary, and will also pre-approve any necessary changes in terms, conditions, and fees resulting from changes in audit scope, fee structure, or other items. The Chief Accounting Officer provides information on the annual audit services engagement terms and fees to the Audit Committee at 150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. the first regular meeting of the Audit Committee each year.

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Representatives of E&Y are not expected to be present at the Meeting but will have the opportunity to make a statement if they wish and will be available should any matter arise requiring E&Y’s presence, such as to respond to appropriate questions.

The Adviser is a registered investment adviserfollowing table includes the respective fees incurred by the Trust for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and wholly-owned subsidiary of Lincoln Life. Lincoln Life is an insurance company organized under Indiana law and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation (“LNC”). LNC is a publicly- held insurance holding company organized under Indiana law. Through its subsidiaries, LNC provides nationwide insurance and financial services. As of December 31, 2022 in connection with the Adviser had approximately $100.3 billion in assets under management.

Investment Subadviser

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Currently, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”) serves as subadviserservices provided by E&Y with respect to the Fund. T. Rowe Price, 100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, is a registered investment adviseroperations and Maryland corporation. T. Rowe Price was founded in 1937. T. Rowe Price and its affiliates provide investment advisory services to individual and institutional investor accounts and managed approximately $1.27 trillion as of December 31, 2022. T. Rowe Price is a wholly-owned subsidiary of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., a publicly traded financial services holding company.

Effective on or about [April 5, 2024], AllianceBernstein L.P. (“AllianceBernstein”) will replace T. Rowe Price as primary subadviser to the Fund. AllianceBernstein is a registered investment adviser with the SEC. AllianceBernstein is a Delaware limited partnership, the majority limited partnership units in which are held, directly and indirectly, by its parent company AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded holding company for a diverse group of financial services companies. The principal address of AllianceBernstein is 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105. AllianceBernstein and its affiliates had assets under management of approximately $2.3 trillion as of December 31, 2022.

T. Rowe Price will remain a sub-adviser to the Fund after April 5, 2024, for the sleeve of private securities owned by the Fund.

Principal Underwriter and Distributor

Lincoln Financial Distributors, Inc. (“LFD”), is located at 130 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087 and is an affiliate of the Adviser.

Administrator

Lincoln Life is located at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 and is an affiliate of the Adviser. Lincoln Life provides various administrative services necessary for the operationreporting of the Trust. None of the fees billed are attributable to non-audit services rendered by E&Y pursuant to a waiver of pre-approval by the Trust’s Audit Committee.

   Fees Billed for
Services Rendered to
the Trust for the
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, 2023
   Percentage of Fees
Billed Applicable to
Non-Audit Services
Provided for Fiscal
Year Ended
December 31, 2023,
Pursuant to Waiver
of Pre-Approval
Request
   Fees Billed for
Services Rendered
to the Trust for the
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, 2022
   Percentage of Fees
Billed Applicable to
Non-Audit Services
Provided for Fiscal
Year Ended
December 31, 2022,
Pursuant to Waiver
of Pre-Approval
Request
 

Audit Fees1

  $3,463,760    0   $3,276,795    0 

Audit-Related Fees2

  $31,855    0   $139,565    0 

Tax Fees3

  $349,077    0   $609,044    0 

All Other Fees

  $0    0   $0    0 

Aggregate Non- Audit Fees4

  $1,426,647    0   $1,794,324    0 

Totals

  $4,922,262    0   $5,819,728    0 

1

Audit fees include fees associated with the annual audit and filings of the Trust’s Form N-1A and Form N-CSR.

2

Audit-related services were comprised of a review of the Trust’s semi-annual reports to shareholders and consents for Form N-14.

3

Aggregate fees for tax services include, tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. These tax services were comprised of U.S. and international tax compliance services and tax advisory services related to tax reclaims and investment security analysis.

4

Aggregate non-audit fees billed by the Trust’s accountant for services rendered to the Trust, the Trust’s investment adviser, or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the Trust.

Householding

Only one copy of this Proxy Statement is mailed to households, even if more than one person in a household is a Fund shareholder of record, unless thea Fund has received instructions to the contrary. If you need additional copies of this Proxy Statement, or if you do not want the mailing of a Proxy Statement to be combined with those for other members of your household in the future, or if you are receiving multiple copies and would rather receive just one copy for the household, please contact the Trust by calling 1-800-454-6265 or if using regular mail, by writing to theLVIP Trust at P.O. Box 2340, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801 or if using express mail, by writing to theLVIP Trust at 1301 SouthS. Harrison Street,St., Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802. Thethe Trust will promptly deliver, upon request, a separate copy of this Proxy Statement to any shareholder residing at an address to which only one copy was mailed.

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports

Shareholders can obtain a copy of the most recent Annual Report and anythe Semi-Annual Report of each Fund of the FundTrust without charge, by calling the Trust at 1-800-454-6265 or if using regular mail, by writing to theLVIP Trust at P.O. Box 2340, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801 (by USPS) or if using express mail, by writing to theLVIP Trust at 1301 SouthS. Harrison Street,St., Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802.46802 (via express mail). You can also access the most recent Annual ReportsReport and Semi-Annual ReportsReport for each Fund at www.lfg.com/lvip.

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EXHIBIT A

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST

LIST OF FUNDS

Lincoln Hedged Nasdaq-100 Fund

Lincoln Hedged Nasdaq-100 Fund 2

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative Fund 2

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative Fund 3

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative Fund 4

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund 2

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund 3

Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund 4

Lincoln Nasdaq-100 Buffer Fund Jun

Lincoln Nasdaq-100 Buffer Fund Mar

Lincoln Opportunistic Hedged Equity Fund

Lincoln S&P 500 Buffer Fund May

Lincoln S&P 500 Ultra Buffer Fund May

LVIP American Balanced Allocation Fund

LVIP American Century Balanced Fund

LVIP American Century Capital Appreciation Fund

LVIP American Century Disciplined Core Value Fund

LVIP American Century Inflation Protection Fund

LVIP American Century International Fund

LVIP American Century Large Company Value Fund

LVIP American Century Mid Cap Value Fund

LVIP American Century Select Mid Cap Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP American Century Ultra® Fund

LVIP American Century Value Fund

LVIP American Global Balanced Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP American Global Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP American Global Growth Fund

LVIP American Global Small Capitalization Fund

LVIP American Growth Allocation Fund

LVIP American Growth Fund

LVIP American Growth-Income Fund

LVIP American Income Allocation Fund

LVIP American International Fund

LVIP American Preservation Fund

LVIP Baron Growth Opportunities Fund

LVIP BlackRock Dividend Value Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund

LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP BlackRock Global Growth ETF Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond Fund

LVIP BlackRock Real Estate Fund

LVIP BlackRock U.S. Growth ETF Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Blended Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Blended Mid Cap Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Channing Small Cap Value Fund

LVIP ClearBridge Franklin Select Large Cap Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Delaware Bond Fund

LVIP Delaware Diversified Floating Rate Fund

LVIP Delaware Diversified Income Fund

LVIP Delaware High Yield Fund

LVIP Delaware Limited-Term Diversified Income Fund

LVIP Delaware Mid Cap Value Fund

LVIP Delaware SMID Cap Core Fund

LVIP Delaware Social Awareness Fund

LVIP Delaware U.S. Growth Fund

LVIP Delaware U.S. REIT Fund

LVIP Delaware Value Fund

LVIP Delaware Wealth Builder Fund

LVIP Dimensional International Core Equity Fund

LVIP Dimensional International Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 1 Fund

LVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 Fund

LVIP Dimensional U.S. Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Fidelity Institutional AM® Select Core Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Franklin Templeton Global Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor Emerging Markets Equity Fund

LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor International Equity Fund

LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor Large Cap Equity Fund

LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor SMID Cap Equity Fund

LVIP Global Aggressive Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Global Conservative Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Global Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Global Moderate Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Government Money Market Fund

LVIP Invesco Select Equity Income Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP JPMorgan Core Bond Fund

LVIP JPMorgan High Yield Fund

LVIP JPMorgan Mid Cap Value Fund

LVIP JPMorgan Retirement Income Fund

LVIP JPMorgan Select Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP JPMorgan Small Cap Core Fund

LVIP JPMorgan U.S. Equity Fund

LVIP Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund

LVIP MFS International Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP MFS International Growth Fund

LVIP MFS Value Fund

LVIP Mondrian Global Income Fund

LVIP Mondrian International Value Fund

LVIP Multi-Manager Global Equity Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP PIMCO Low Duration Bond Fund

LVIP SSGA Bond Index Fund

LVIP SSGA Conservative Index Allocation Fund

LVIP Structured Conservative Allocation Fund

LVIP SSGA Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund

LVIP SSGA Global Tactical Allocation Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP SSGA International Index Fund

LVIP SSGA International Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP SSGA Large Cap Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP SSGA Mid-Cap Index Fund

LVIP SSGA Moderate Index Allocation Fund

LVIP Structured Moderate Allocation Fund

LVIP SSGA Moderately Aggressive Index Allocation Fund

LVIP Structured Moderately Aggressive Allocation Fund

LVIP SSGA Nasdaq-100 Fund

LVIP SSGA S&P 500 Index Fund

LVIP SSGA Short-Term Bond Index Fund

LVIP SSGA Small-Cap Index Fund

LVIP SSGA SMID Cap Managed Volatility Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price 2020 Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price 2030 Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price 2040 Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price 2050 Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price 2060 Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund

LVIP T. Rowe Price Structured Mid-Cap Growth Fund

LVIP U.S. Aggressive Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP U.S. Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund

LVIP Vanguard Bond Allocation Fund

LVIP Vanguard Domestic Equity ETF Fund

LVIP Vanguard International Equity ETF Fund

LVIP Wellington Capital Growth Fund

LVIP Wellington SMID Cap Value Fund

LVIP Western Asset Core Bond Fund

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EXHIBIT B

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST

Nominating and Governance Committee Charter

I.

Membership

The Nominating and Governance Committee of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (such Trust, the “Trust” and such Committee, the “Committee”) shall be composed entirely of independent trustees. The members of the Committee shall be elected by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board”) annually. The Chair of the Committee shall be elected by the Board to serve a two-year term.

II.

Meetings

The Committee shall meet on a regular basis and will hold special meetings as necessary. Special meetings (including telephone meetings) may be called by the Chair or a majority of the members of the Committee upon reasonable notice to the other members of the Committee.

A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Committee. The action of a majority of the members of the Committee present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the Committee.

III.

Nominating Functions

 

 Ø1.

PROMPTLY EXECUTE AND RETURN THE ENCLOSED VOTING INSTRUCTION PROXY CARD. A SELF-ADDRESSED, POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE IS ENCLOSED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.The Committee shall identify and nominate individuals to serve as independent trustees on the Board. The nomination of independent trustees shall be by vote of a majority of the Committee and the nomination of interested trustees shall be by vote of a majority of the Board.

OR

 

 Ø2.

VOTE TELEPHONICALLY BY CALLING [(800) 337-3503].The Committee will independently evaluate candidates for Board membership. Suggestions for candidates may be submitted in writing to the Committee, although the Committee, at its discretion, may or may not choose to consider such candidate(s) for Board membership. The Committee may consider shareholder recommendations for nomination to the Board. Shareholders who wish to submit recommendations for nominations to the Board must submit their recommendations in writing to the Committee. Shareholders should include appropriate information on the background and qualifications of any person recommended to the Committee (e.g., a resume), as well as the candidate’s contact information and a written consent from the candidate to serve if nominated and elected.

OR

3.

The Committee shall periodically review the composition of the Board to determine whether it may be appropriate to add individuals with different backgrounds or skill sets from those already on the Board.

IV.

Governance Functions

1.

The Committee shall make nominations for membership on all committees, committee chairs, and make recommendations to the independent trustees for lead independent trustee or independent chair. The Committee shall review all committee membership assignments at least annually and committee chair assignments biannually. The Committee shall make recommendations for any such action to the Board.

2.

The Committee shall periodically review the Board Governance Guidelines and Procedures and shall recommend any appropriate changes to the Board.

3.

The Committee shall review and recommend any appropriate changes in compensation for independent trustees, lead independent trustee or independent chair, and all committee chairs to the Board.

 

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 Ø4.

VOTE ON THE INTERNET BY LOGGING ONTO WWW.PROXY-DIRECT.COMAND FOLLOWING THE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS.The Committee shall review as necessary the responsibilities of any committees of the Board, whether there is a continuing need for the committee, whether there is a need for additional committees of the Board, and whether committees should be combined or reorganized.

VOTING INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME ON [MARCH 13, 2024]. VOTES CAST BY MAIL NEED TO BE RECEIVED AT THE ADDRESS SHOWN ON THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE PAID ENVELOPE.

OR
V.

Other Responsibilities

 

 Ø1.

The Committee shall monitor the performance of legal counsel employed by the independent trustees.

2.

The Committee shall have the resources and authority appropriate to discharge its responsibilities, including authority to retain special counsel and other experts or consultants at the expense of the appropriate fund(s).

3.

The Committee shall review this Charter at least annually and recommend any changes to the Board.

4.

The Committee is responsible for managing the annual Board assessment process and any peer reviews.

5.

The Committee shall maintain minutes of Committee meetings, report its significant activities to the Board, and make such recommendations to the Board as the Committee deems necessary or appropriate.

Last Amended by the Board: December 7, 2022

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EXHIBIT C

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE TRUST

Name, Address and
Year of Birth

  

VOTE AT THE IN-PERSON SHAREHOLDER MEETING Position(s)
Held With
the Funds
ON [MARCH 15, 2024] AT 11:00 A.M. EASTERN TIME.

Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served

Principal
Occupation(s)
during Past
Five Years

Matthew L. Arnold

150 N. Radnor-Chester Road Radnor, PA 19087

YOB: 1967

Vice PresidentSince December 2023Vice President, Lincoln National Corporation
Matthew T. Berger
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1982
Vice PresidentSince June 2022; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since June 2019Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Formerly: Assistant Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company.
Jayson R. Bronchetti
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1979
PresidentSince April 2016; Formerly: Vice President since August 2015Director and President, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Formerly: Director, Senior Vice President and Head of Funds Management.
Samuel K. Goldstein
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1976
Vice President and Assistant SecretarySince June 2019; Formerly: Assistant Vice President and Assistant Secretary
since December 2013
Vice President and Assistant Secretary, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Vice President, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York; Vice President, Lincoln National Corporation.

James Hoffmayer
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087

YOB: 1973

Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Accounting OfficerSince February 2024; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since November 2021Vice President and Treasurer, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Vice President and Director of Separate Account Operations and Mutual Fund Administration, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Formerly: Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Financial Investments; Managing Director, SEI; Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, SEI Family of Mutual Funds.
Ronald A. Holinsky
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1970

Senior Vice President,

Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer

Since August 2018; Formerly: Vice President since October 2016Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Investment Management, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Senior Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Formerly: Vice President and Chief Counsel – Funds Management, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel, Lincoln National Corporation; Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Legal Officer, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation.

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Name, Address and
Year of Birth

Position(s)
Held With
the Funds

Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served

Principal
Occupation(s)
during Past
Five Years

Michael C. Hoppe
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1988
Vice PresidentSince June 2022; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since August 2018

Vice President, Lincoln Financial

Investments Corporation; Formerly:

Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation.

Yun (Maria) Ma
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1978
Vice PresidentSince June 2022; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since August 2015

Vice President, Lincoln Financial

Investments Corporation; Formerly:

Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation.

Jennifer M. Matthews
1301 S. Harrison Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1976
Vice PresidentSince April 2018

Vice President, Lincoln Financial

Investments Corporation; Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance

Company.

Colleen E. O’ Leary
1301 S. Harrison Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
YOB: 1984
Vice PresidentSince June 2022; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since June 2018Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Formerly: Assistant Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company.
Benjamin A. Richer
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1984
Senior Vice PresidentSince March 2022; Formerly: Vice President since April 2018

Senior Vice President and Head of Funds Management, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Senior Vice President, Lincoln National Corporation; Senior Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance

Company; Senior Vice President, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York; Formerly: Director of Asset Strategies, Nationwide Fund Advisors.

Jay Shearon

150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1972

Vice PresidentSince March 2024; Formerly: Assistant Vice President since December 2015Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Formerly: Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust.
John (Jack) A. Weston
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1959

Vice President and Chief

Compliance Officer

Since May 2007Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company.
Amber Williams
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1979
Senior Vice PresidentSince March 2022; Formerly, Vice President since May 2019

Senior Vice President and Head of Client Investment Strategies, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Senior Vice President, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York; Senior Vice President, Lincoln National Corporation; Senior Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance

Company; Formerly, Head of Product Management, Nationwide Investment Management Group.

Yajun (Alex) Zeng
150 N. Radnor-Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
YOB: 1982
Vice PresidentSince April 2018Vice President and Managing Director, Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation; Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company.

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EXHIBIT D

OUTSTANDING SHARES AS OF THE RECORD DATE [MARCH 15, 2024]

Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust

Fund

Total Number of Shares Outstanding

[To come]

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EXHIBIT E

SHAREHOLDERS OWNING 5% OR MORE OF A CLASS AS OF THE RECORD DATE

Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust

Because the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (LVIP) funds are available as investments for variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (Variable Contracts) offered by certain life insurance companies, the insurance companies could be deemed to control the voting securities of each Fund (i.e., by owning more than 25%). However, an insurance company would exercise voting rights attributable to any shares of each Fund that it owns (directly or indirectly) in accordance, and in proportion to, voting instructions received by owners of the Variable Contracts. A small number of Contract Holders could therefore determine whether the Proposals are approved.

As of the Record Date, the Trust was aware that the following persons or entities owned of record 25% or more of the outstanding shares of a share class of a Fund.

Fund

Shareholder
Name and Address *

Ownership %

[To come]

*

The address of each LVIP Fund that is listed as a Shareholder is the following: 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802-3506

For these Funds, the insurance companies include, without limitation, (1) Lincoln Life, an Indiana insurance company, at 1301 South on Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802; (2) Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (Lincoln New York), a New York insurance company, at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1860, Syracuse, NY 13202-2802; and (3) other third party insurance companies.

As of [March 15, 2024] (“Record Date”), there were no shareholders of the Funds that held 5% or more (or 25% or more) of a fund’s outstanding shares, except for the insurance company shareholders. Any fund of funds would exercise voting rights attributable to ownership of shares of the LVIP Funds in accordance with the proxy voting policies established by the fund of funds. The fund of funds generally will vote their shares of underlying funds in the same proportion as the vote of all of the other holders of the underlying fund’s shares, a technique known as “echo voting.”

As of the Record Date, the Trust was aware that the following persons or entities owned of record 5% or more of the outstanding shares of each share class of a Fund.

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Fund

Shareholder
Name and Address *

Ownership %

[To come]

*

The address of each LVIP Fund that is listed as a Shareholder is the following: 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802-3506

 

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 PO Box 43131

 Providence, RI 02940-3131

  EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT
  EASY VOTING OPTIONS:
  LOGOLOGO 

VOTE ON THE INTERNET

Log on to:

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or scan the QR code

Follow the on-screen instructions

available 24 hours

  LOGO 

VOTE BY TELEPHONE

Call 1-800-337-3503

Follow the recorded instructions

available 24 hours

  LOGO 

VOTE BY MAIL

Vote, sign and date your

Proxy Card and return it in the

postage-paid envelope

 

 Please detach at perforation before mailing. 

LOGO

 LVIP T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUNDLINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST PROXY
LOGO

(a series of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust)

1301 S. HARRISON STREET, FORT WAYNE, IN 46802

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON MARCH 15, 2024[JUNE 14, 2024]

 

THIS PROXY IS BEING SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST.

The undersigned, revoking previous proxies with respect to the shares in the name of the undersigned, hereby appoint(s) Jayson R. Bronchetti, Samuel K. Goldstein, and James Hoffmayer, or any of them as Proxies of the undersigned with full power of substitution, to vote and act with respect to all share classesshares of the LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund,fund(s) listed on the reverse side (each, individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), each a series of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (“LVIP”), with respect to which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held at the offices of the Trust located at 150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 190871301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 on March 15, 2024,[June 14, 2024], at 11[11:00 a.m. Eastern TimeTime] and at any adjournments or postponements thereof.

I acknowledge receipt of the Notice of the Special Meeting of the Shareholders and accompanying Proxy Statement dated on or about January 29,[•], 2024.

 

1. 

VOTE VIA THE INTERNET: www.proxy-direct.com

VOTE VIA THE TELEPHONE: 1-800-337-3503

   

VOTE VIA THE INTERNET: www.proxy-direct.com

VOTE VIA THE TELEPHONE:  1 - 800 - 337 - 3503

  
2.        

LIN_33715_010224LIN_33894_031324

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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock FundLincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust

Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 15,[June 14], 2024.

The Proxy Statement for this meeting is available at: https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33715lin-33894

 

FUNDS

FUNDS

Lincoln Hedged Nasdaq-100 FundLincoln Hedged Nasdaq-100 Fund 2
Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative FundLincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative Fund 2
Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Conservative Fund 3Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund
Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund 2Lincoln Hedged S&P 500 Fund 3
Lincoln Nasdaq-100 Buffer Fund JunLincoln Nasdaq-100 Buffer Fund Mar
Lincoln Opportunistic Hedged Equity FundLincoln S&P 500 Buffer Fund May
Lincoln S&P 500 Ultra Buffer Fund MayLVIP American Balanced Allocation Fund
LVIP American Century Select Mid Cap Managed Volatility FundLVIP American Global Balanced Allocation Managed Risk Fund
LVIP American Global Growth Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP American Global Growth Fund
LVIP American Global Small Capitalization FundLVIP American Growth Allocation Fund
LVIP American Growth FundLVIP American Growth-Income Fund
LVIP American Income Allocation FundLVIP American International Fund
LVIP American Preservation FundLVIP Baron Growth Opportunities Fund
LVIP BlackRock Dividend Value Managed Volatility FundLVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund
LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP BlackRock Global Growth ETF Allocation Managed Risk Fund
LVIP BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond FundLVIP BlackRock Real Estate Fund
LVIP BlackRock U.S. Growth ETF Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP Blended Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP Blended Mid Cap Managed Volatility FundLVIP Channing Small Cap Value Fund
LVIP ClearBridge Franklin Select Large Cap Managed Volatility FundLVIP Delaware Bond Fund

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

This proxy will be voted as instructed.If no specification is made for the Proposal,Proposals, the proxy will be voted “FOR” the Proposal. Proposals. The Proxies are authorized in their discretion to vote upon such other matters as may come before the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.thereof.

 

TO VOTE MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN IN THIS EXAMPLE: LOGOX  

 

 A Proposals  The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the Proposals.

1. To elect ten trustees to the Board of Trustees.  

FOR

ALL

  

WITHHOLD

ALL

  

FOR ALL

EXCEPT

                 
   01.  Jayson R. Bronchetti  02.  Steve A. Cobb    03. Peter Finnerty  04.  Ken C. Joseph      
   05.  Barbara L. Lamb  06.  Thomas A. Leonard  07.  Pamela L. Salaway    08.  Manisha A. Thakor
   09.  Brian W. Wixted  10.  Nancy B. Wolcott              
   
   INSTRUCTIONS: To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark the box “FOR ALL EXCEPT”
   and write the nominee’s number on the line provided.                            
   
2. To authorize the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund to rely on an SEC “Manager of Managers” order.
   
 A Proposal        The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” Proposal 1.
  FOR  AGAINST  ABSTAIN  
 1.To approve changing the Fund’s sub-classification from “diversified” to “non-diversified” and approve the elimination of a related fundamental investment restriction.LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund        

3.           To transact such other business, not currently contemplated, that may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

 B Authorized Signatures — This section must be completed for your vote to be counted. — Sign and Date Below

 Note: Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on this proxy card, and date it. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, officer of corporation or other entity or in another representative capacity, please give the full title under the signature.

Date (mm/dd/yyyy) — Please print date below

Signature 1 — Please keep signature within the box

Signature 2 — Please keep signature within the box

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 Providence, RI 02940-3131

 To transact such other business that may properly come before the Meeting, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, in the discretion of the proxies or their substitutes.EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT
EASY VOTING OPTIONS:
VOTE ON THE INTERNET
   LOGOLog on to:

www.proxy-direct.com

or scan the QR code

Follow the on-screen instructions
available 24 hours
LOGO
VOTE BY TELEPHONE
Call 1-800-337-3503
Follow the recorded instructions
available 24 hours
VOTE BY MAIL
LOGOVote, sign and date your
Proxy Card and return it in the
postage-paid envelope

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

LOGOLINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUSTPROXY
1301 S. HARRISON STREET, FORT WAYNE, IN 46802
SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON [JUNE 14, 2024]

THIS PROXY IS BEING SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST.

The undersigned, revoking previous proxies with respect to the shares in the name of the undersigned, hereby appoint(s) Jayson R. Bronchetti, Samuel K. Goldstein, and James Hoffmayer, or any of them as Proxies of the undersigned with full power of substitution, to vote and act with respect to all shares of the fund(s) listed on the reverse side (each, individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), each a series of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (“LVIP”), with respect to which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held at the offices of the Trust located at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 on [June 14, 2024], at [11:00 a.m. Eastern Time] and at any adjournments or postponements thereof.

I acknowledge receipt of the Notice of the Special Meeting of the Shareholders and accompanying Proxy Statement dated on or about [•], 2024.

VOTE VIA THE INTERNET: www.proxy-direct.com

VOTE VIA THE TELEPHONE: 1-800-337-3503

LIN_33894_031324

PLEASE VOTE, SIGN AND DATE ON THE REVERSE SIDE AND RETURN THE PROXY PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

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EVERY SHAREHOLDER’S VOTE IS IMPORTANT!

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust

Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held on [June 14], 2024.

The Proxy Statement for this meeting is available at: https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33894

FUNDS

FUNDS

LVIP Delaware Diversified Floating Rate FundLVIP Delaware Diversified Income Fund
LVIP Delaware High Yield FundLVIP Delaware Limited-Term Diversified Income Fund
LVIP Delaware Mid Cap Value FundLVIP Delaware SMID Cap Core Fund
LVIP Delaware Social Awareness FundLVIP Delaware U.S. Growth Fund
LVIP Delaware U.S. REIT FundLVIP Delaware Value Fund
LVIP Delaware Wealth Builder FundLVIP Dimensional International Core Equity Fund
LVIP Dimensional International Equity Managed Volatility FundLVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 1 Fund
LVIP Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 FundLVIP Dimensional U.S. Equity Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP Fidelity Institutional AM Select Core Equity Managed Volatility FundLVIP Franklin Templeton Global Equity Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor Emerging Markets Equity FundLVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor International Equity Fund
LVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor Large Cap Equity FundLVIP Franklin Templeton Multi-Factor SMID Cap Equity Fund
LVIP Global Aggressive Growth Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP Global Conservative Allocation Managed Risk Fund
LVIP Global Growth Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP Global Moderate Allocation Managed Risk Fund
LVIP Government Money Market FundLVIP Invesco Select Equity Income Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP JPMorgan Core Bond FundLVIP JPMorgan High Yield Fund
LVIP JPMorgan Mid Cap Value FundLVIP JPMorgan Retirement Income Fund
LVIP JPMorgan Select Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility FundLVIP JPMorgan Small Cap Core Fund
LVIP JPMorgan U.S. Equity FundLVIP Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund
LVIP MFS International Equity Managed Volatility FundLVIP MFS International Growth Fund
LVIP MFS Value FundLVIP Mondrian Global Income Fund

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

This proxy will be voted as instructed.If no specification is made for the Proposals, the proxy will be voted “FOR” the Proposals. The Proxies are authorized in their discretion to vote upon such other matters as may come before the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

TO VOTE MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN IN THIS EXAMPLE:X 

 A Proposals  The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the Proposals.

1. To elect ten trustees to the Board of Trustees.  FOR  WITHHOLD  FOR ALL
                   ALL  ALL  EXCEPT
   01.  Jayson R. Bronchetti  02.  Steve A. Cobb    03. Peter Finnerty  04.  Ken C. Joseph      
   05.  Barbara L. Lamb  06.  Thomas A. Leonard  07.  Pamela L. Salaway    08.  Manisha A. Thakor
   09.  Brian W. Wixted  10.  Nancy B. Wolcott              
   INSTRUCTIONS: To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark the box “FOR ALL EXCEPT”
   and write the nominee’s number on the line provided.                            
     
   
2. To authorize the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund to rely on an SEC “Manager of Managers” order.
   
Not applicable to your fund(s)
   
        3.         To transact such other business, not currently contemplated, that may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

 B Authorized Signatures — This section must be completed for your vote to be counted. — Sign and Date Below

Note:  Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on this proxy card, and date it. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, officer of corporation or other entity or in another representative capacity, please give the full title under the signature.

Date (mm/dd/yyyy) — Please print date below

Signature 1 — Please keep signature within the boxSignature 2 — Please keep signature within the box
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 PO Box 43131

 Providence, RI 02940-3131

EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT
EASY VOTING OPTIONS:
LOGO

VOTE ON THE INTERNET

Log on to:

www.proxy-direct.com

or scan the QR code

Follow the on-screen instructions

available 24 hours

LOGO

VOTE BY TELEPHONE

Call 1-800-337-3503

Follow the recorded instructions

available 24 hours

LOGO

VOTE BY MAIL

Vote, sign and date your

Proxy Card and return it in the

postage-paid envelope

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

LOGO

LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUSTPROXY

1301 S. HARRISON STREET, FORT WAYNE, IN 46802

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON [JUNE 14, 2024]

THIS PROXY IS BEING SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST.

The undersigned, revoking previous proxies with respect to the shares in the name of the undersigned, hereby appoint(s) Jayson R. Bronchetti, Samuel K. Goldstein, and James Hoffmayer, or any of them as Proxies of the undersigned with full power of substitution, to vote and act with respect to all shares of the fund(s) listed on the reverse side (each, individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), each a series of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust (“LVIP”), with respect to which the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held at the offices of the Trust located at 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 on [June 14, 2024], at [11:00 a.m. Eastern Time] and at any adjournments or postponements thereof.

I acknowledge receipt of the Notice of the Special Meeting of the Shareholders and accompanying Proxy Statement dated on or about [•], 2024.

VOTE VIA THE INTERNET: www.proxy-direct.com

VOTE VIA THE TELEPHONE: 1-800-337-3503

LIN_33894_031324

PLEASE VOTE, SIGN AND DATE ON THE REVERSE SIDE AND RETURN THE PROXY PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

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EVERY SHAREHOLDER’S VOTE IS IMPORTANT!

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust

Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held on [June 14], 2024.

The Proxy Statement for this meeting is available at: https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33894

FUNDS

FUNDS

LVIP Mondrian International Value FundLVIP Multi-Manager Global Equity Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP PIMCO Low Duration Bond FundLVIP SSGA Bond Index Fund
LVIP SSGA Conservative Index Allocation FundLVIP SSGA Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund
LVIP SSGA Global Tactical Allocation Managed Volatility FundLVIP SSGA International Index Fund
LVIP SSGA International Managed Volatility FundLVIP SSGA Large Cap Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP SSGA Mid-Cap Index FundLVIP SSGA Moderate Index Allocation Fund
LVIP SSGA Moderately Aggressive Index Allocation FundLVIP SSGA NASDAQ-100 Index Fund
LVIP SSGA S&P 500 Index FundLVIP SSGA Short-Term Bond Index Fund
LVIP SSGA Small-Cap Index FundLVIP SSGA SMID Cap Managed Volatility Fund
LVIP Structured Conservative Allocation FundLVIP Structured Moderate Allocation Fund
LVIP Structured Moderately Aggressive Allocation FundLVIP T. Rowe Price 2020 Fund
LVIP T. Rowe Price 2030 FundLVIP T. Rowe Price 2040 Fund
LVIP T. Rowe Price 2050 FundLVIP T. Rowe Price 2060 Fund
LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock FundLVIP T. Rowe Price Structured Mid-Cap Growth Fund
LVIP U.S. Aggressive Growth Allocation Managed Risk FundLVIP U.S. Growth Allocation Managed Risk Fund
LVIP Vanguard Bond Allocation FundLVIP Vanguard Domestic Equity ETF Fund
LVIP Vanguard International Equity ETF FundLVIP Wellington Capital Growth Fund
LVIP Wellington SMID Cap Value FundLVIP Western Asset Core Bond Fund

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

This proxy will be voted as instructed.If no specification is made for the Proposals, the proxy will be voted “FOR” the Proposals. The Proxies are authorized in their discretion to vote upon such other matters as may come before the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

TO VOTE MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN IN THIS EXAMPLE:X 

 A Proposals  The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the Proposals.

1. To elect ten trustees to the Board of Trustees.  

FOR

ALL

  

WITHHOLD

ALL

  

FOR ALL

EXCEPT

                 
   01.  Jayson R. Bronchetti  02.  Steve A. Cobb    03. Peter Finnerty  04.  Ken C. Joseph      
   05.  Barbara L. Lamb  06.  Thomas A. Leonard  07.  Pamela L. Salaway    08.  Manisha A. Thakor
   09.  Brian W. Wixted  10.  Nancy B. Wolcott              
     
   INSTRUCTIONS: To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark the box “FOR ALL EXCEPT”
   and write the nominee’s number on the line provided.                            
   
2. To authorize the LVIP BlackRock Global Allocation Fund to rely on an SEC “Manager of Managers” order.
   
Not applicable to your fund(s)
   
   

3.            To transact such other business, not currently contemplated, that may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

 

 B  Authorized Signatures — This section must be completed for your vote to be counted. — Sign and Date Below

 Note: Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on this proxy card, and date it. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, officer of corporation or other entity or in another representative capacity, please give the full title under the signature.

 

Date (mm/dd/yyyy) — Please print date below 

Signature 1 — Please keep signature within the box

 

Signature 2 — Please keep signature within the box

   
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Providence, RI 02940-3131

EVERY VOTE IS IMPORTANT
EASY VOTING OPTIONS:
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LOGOLVIP T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUNDVOTING INSTRUCTION CARD

(a series of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust)

1301 S. HARRISON STREET, FORT WAYNE, IN 46802

SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON MARCH 15, 2024

THIS VOTING INSTRUCTION CARD IS BEING SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LINCOLN VARIABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS TRUST.

[INSURANCE COMPANY DROP-IN]

Revoking any prior instructions, the undersigned instructs the above referenced insurance company (the “Company”) to vote and act with respect to all shares of the LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, a series of the Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust, that are attributable to his or her contract or interest therein and held in the Company separate account, at the Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held at the offices of the Trust located at 150 North Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087 on March 15, 2024, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time and at any adjournments or postponements thereof.

If you sign on the reverse side but do not mark instructions, the Company will vote all shares of the Fund attributable to your account value FOR the proposal. If you do not return this Voting Instruction Card, the Company will vote all shares attributable to your account value in proportion to the timely voting instructions actually received from contract owners in the separate account.

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PLEASE VOTE, SIGN AND DATE ON THE REVERSE SIDE AND RETURN THE VOTING INSTRUCTION CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

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EVERY CONTRACT OWNER’S VOTE IS IMPORTANT!

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

LVIP T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund

Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 15, 2024.

The Proxy Statement for this meeting is available at: https://www.proxy-direct.com/lin-33715

Please detach at perforation before mailing.

This Voting Instruction Card will be voted as instructed. If no specification is made for the Proposal, the Voting Instruction Card will be voted “FOR” the Proposal. The Proxies are authorized in their discretion to vote upon such other matters as may come before the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.

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 TO VOTE MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN IN THIS EXAMPLE:

AProposal         The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” Proposal 1.

FORAGAINST

ABSTAIN    

 1.To approve changing the Fund’s sub-classification from “diversified” to “non-diversified” and approve the elimination of a related fundamental investment restriction.
 2.To transact such other business that may properly come before the Meeting, or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, in the discretion of the proxies or their substitutes.

BAuthorized Signatures — This section must be completed for your vote to be counted. — Sign and Date Below

Note: Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) on this voting instruction card, and date it. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, officer of corporation or other entity or in another representative capacity, please give the full title under the signature.

 Date (mm/dd/yyyy) – Please print date below

Signature 1 – Please keep signature within the box

Signature 2 – Please keep signature within the box

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