Nationwide Funds^®

Nationwide International Index Fund

Investment objective

The Fund seeks to match the performance of the Europe, Australasia and Far East Index (the MSCI EAFE® Index) as closely as possible before the deduction of Fund expenses.

Investment strategy

The Fund employs a "passive" management, or indexing, approach designed to match approximately the performance of the MSCI EAFE Index before the deduction of Fund expenses. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in a statistically selected sampling of equity securities of companies included in the MSCI EAFE Index and in derivative instruments linked to the MSCI EAFE Index, primarily futures contracts.

Portfolio management

BlackRock Investment Management, LLC, Subadviser

Christopher Bliss, Edward Corallo, Jennifer Hsui, and Creighton Jue are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund, including selection of the Fund's investments.

Nationwide Fund Distributors LLC is not an affiliate of BlackRock Investment Management, LLC.

Fund documents

You can find more detailed information about the Fund in the summary prospectus, prospectus and other fund documents. You should carefully read the documents before investing.

Product literature/support materials

Fact Sheet

NFW-3170AO.1

Holdings

Important Disclosures
The Fund is indexed to an MSCI index. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by MSCI, and MSCI bears no liability with respect to any such funds or securities or any index on which such funds or securities are based. The Prospectus contains a more detailed description of the limited relationship MSCI has with Nationwide and the Nationwide Funds.

Principal Risks
International investing involves additional risks, including currency fluctuations, differences in accounting standards, economic and political instability, illiquidity and higher trading costs, and differences in foreign regulations, all of which are magnified in emerging markets.

The Fund is subject to index fund risk. The Fund does not use defensive strategies or attempt to reduce its exposure to poorly performing securities. In addition, correlation between Fund performance and index performance may be negatively affected by Fund expenses, index composition changes, and the timing of Fund share purchases and redemptions.

Market Index
MSCI EAFE^® Index: An unmanaged, free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the performance of the stocks in developed markets outside the United States and Canada.