Investment Objective: |
The Fund s portfolio is constructed through a two-step process, with the first step setting the allocation among different fixed income asset classes and the second step determining security selection within those asset classes. The allocation across long-term, medium-term and short-term investment grade securities, long-term and short-term high yield securities and emerging market debt is determined by a quantitative methodology. The methodology models historical returns as a function of initial valuation conditions and creates estimates of potential returns and downside risks consistent with historical market behavior. These capital market assumptions are incorporated into a patent-pending Mean Reversion Optimization (MRO) process to produce the index weighting within each of the major fixed income asset classes. The objective of this optimization is to construct a combination of fixed income asset classes that are expected to have a high probability of generating a positive potential total return over a five-year investment horizon. |