| Investment Objective: |
The Fund employs a "passive management" (or indexing) investment approach designed to track the total return performance of MSCI World Ricardo Comparative Advantage Select GDP Tilted Index. The Index is a rules-based index that aims to represent the performance of the securities from a set of countries which have the highest active weight in each of the twenty-five GICS Industry Groups as measured against the MSCI World Index (the "Parent Index"). GICS Industry Groups comprise one of the four tiers of GICS, a hierarchical industry classification system maintained by MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The Index incorporates a gross domestic product ("GDP") tilt by reweighting the screened securities relative to their corresponding country's GDP. Securities in the eligible universe of the constituent companies of the Parent Index are screened to identify the country with the highest active country weight in each GICS Industry Group. The securities that meet the screening criteria are grouped by country and each group is weighted by the product of their aggregated free-float adjusted market capitalization and the corresponding country's gross domestic product. Additionally, the constituent security weights are capped at 5% to mitigate concentration risk in the Index. |
