LQDG

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Interest Rate Hedged Index. In order to achieve this investment objective, the investment policy of the Fund is to invest in a portfolio of fixed income securities that, as far as possible and practicable, consist of the component securities of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index and US treasury bond futures contracts that, as far as possible and practicable, track the hedging methodology of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Interest Rate Hedged Index, this Fund’s Benchmark Index. The hedging methodology consists of selling US Treasury bond futures contracts in order to hedge the underlying US treasury bond yield risk.