The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach and seeks to track the performance of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index (the “Index”). The Index is comprised of large-sized company stocks in the US. The Fund may use derivatives in order to reduce risk or cost and/or generate extra income or growth. The use of derivatives could increase or reduce exposure to underlying assets and result in greater fluctuations of the Fund's net asset value. The currency of the share class is USD. The Fund may engage in short term secured lending of its investments to certain eligible third parties. This is used as a means of generating additional income and to off-set the costs of the Fund.