p id="xdx_A81_err--StrategyNarrativeTextBlock_gRBSNTB-SXSASI_zmlG81SFeBl7" style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span id="dual-pro_01a48"/spanspan style="text-transform: none"The Fund employs a “passive management” — or indexing — investment approach designed to track the performance of the Underlying Index, which was developed by Solactive A.G. (“Solactive” or the “Index Provider”) /spanspan style="text-transform: none"and Equileap (“Equileap”). Solactive constructs the Underlying Index using the /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Equileap Score, /span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"which is calculated based on data and the scoring methodology developed and produced by Equileap. The Underlying Index is designed to track the U.S. large-, mid- and small-capitalization companies that have the highest Equileap Score. The criteria and factors used to calculate the Equileap Score are in alignment with initiatives, research and programs of Girls Who Code Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity, (“Girls /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Who Code/spansup style="text-transform: none; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 7pt"®/supspan style="text-transform: none"”)./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"The index universe consists of the 1000 /spanspan style="text-transform: none"largest companies in the U.S. stock market. The Underlying Index /spanspan style="text-transform: none"includes an exclusionary screen that excludes companies that derive certain minimum amounts of /spanspan style="text-transform: none"revenue from:/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Unconventional Fossil Fuels: excluding companies with more than 5% revenue exposure to coal mining and power generation, hydraulic fracturing, oil amp; sands, and deep /spanspan style="text-transform: none"water drilling;/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Nuclear Energy: excluding companies with more than 10% of revenues derived from production, distribution or supports of products related to /spanspan style="text-transform: none"nuclear energy;/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Controversial Businesses: excluding companies with more than /spanspan style="text-transform: none"10% revenue exposure to gambling, adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, cannabis or /spanspan style="text-transform: none"military equipment;/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Controversial Weapons: excluding companies /spanspan style="text-transform: none"with any exposure to anti-personnel mines, biological and chemical weapons, cluster munitions, depleted uranium, and nuclear /spanspan style="text-transform: none"weapons; or/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Norms Based Research: excluding companies with verified infringement of established international initiatives and guidelines, including the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines, and other reports, research and guidelines from /spanspan style="text-transform: none"third-party organizations./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"The Underlying Index also excludes companies for a period of one year if, in the past two years the company has engaged in a pattern of unethical business practices involving discrimination against employees, which can include gender/sex, pay, maternity, or pregnancy discrimination, and unethical practices in the company’s marketing /spanspan style="text-transform: none"and advertisement./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"After the exclusionary screens have been applied, all remaining securitie/spanspan style="text-transform: none"s are ranked according to the Equileap Score. A company’s Equileap Score is derived by assigning a weight of 40% to how the company scores/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"on/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"gender/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"balance/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"in/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"leadership/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"and/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"workforce,/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"a/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"weight/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"of/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"30%/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"to/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"how/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"the/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"company/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"scores/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"on/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"equal compensation and work life balance, a weight of 20% to how the company scores on policies promoting gender equality and a weight of 10% to how the company scores on commitment, transparency and accountability./spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Equileap/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"determines/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"a/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"company’s/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Equileap/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Score/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"based/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"upon/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"its/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"analysis/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"of/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"publicly/spanspan style="text-transform: none; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif" /spanspan style="text-transform: none"available information, including annual reports, Corporate Social Responsibility reports, and other information available on the website of the company. Additionally, Equileap may obtain information from questionnaires sent to companies and will take those responses into account when Equileap is able to link the information to a publicly /spanspan style="text-transform: none"available source./span/p p style="font: italic 9pt/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 14.4pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: left"span style="text-decoration: underline; text-transform: none; font-style: italic"ispan style="text-decoration: underline"Gender Balance In Leadership amp; Workforce/span/i/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Non-Executive Board: Percentage of /spanspan style="text-transform: none"male and female as a proportion of the total number /spanspan style="text-transform: none"of non-executive /spanspan style="text-transform: none"board members./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Executives: Percentage of male and female executives as a proportion of the total number /spanspan style="text-transform: none"of executives./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Senior Management: Percentage of male and female senior/spanspan style="text-transform: none" management, as a proportion of the total number of /spanspan style="text-transform: none"senior management./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Workforce: Percentage of male and female employees at the company, as a percentage of /spanspan style="text-transform: none"total employees./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Promotion /spanspan style="text-transform: none"amp; Career Development Opportunities: Ratio of male and female employees /spanspan style="text-transform: none"in management compared to ratio of each gender in /spanspan style="text-transform: none"total employees./span/p p style="font: italic 9pt/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 14.4pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: left"span style="text-decoration: underline; text-transform: none; font-style: italic"ispan style="text-decoration: underline"Equal Compensation amp; Work Life Balance/span/i/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Fair Remuneration: Commitment/spanspan style="text-transform: none" to ensure payment of a fair wage to /spanspan style="text-transform: none"all employees./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Equal Pay: Commitment to provide comparable wages, hours, and benefits, including retirement benefits, for all employees for /spanspan style="text-transform: none"comparable work./span/pp style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Parental Leave: Paid leave programs for child and dependent/spanspan style="text-transform: none" care to both women and men (maternity leave, paternity leave, /spanspan style="text-transform: none"dependent care)./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Flexible Work Options: Option for employees to control and/or vary the start/end times of the work-day and/or vary the location from which /spanspan style="text-transform: none"employees work./span/p p style="font: italic 9pt/normal Arial, sans-serif; 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margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Freedom from Violence, Abuse and Sexual Harassment: Prohibit all forms of violence in the workplace, including verbal, physical and /spanspan style="text-transform: none"sexual harassment./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Safety at Work: Commitment to the safety/spanspan style="text-transform: none" of employees in the workplace and /spanspan style="text-transform: none"company-related travel./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Human Rights: Commitment to ensure the protection of the rights of all people it works with including employees’ rights to participate in legal, civic and /spanspan style="text-transform: none"political affairs./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Social/spanspan style="text-transform: none" Supply Chain: Commitment to reduce social risks in its supply/spanspan style="text-transform: none" chain such as forbidding business-related activities that condone, support, or otherwise/spanspan style="text-transform: none" participate in human trafficking, including for labor or /spanspan style="text-transform: none"sexual exploitation./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Supplier Diversity: Commitment to ensure/spanspan style="text-transform: none" gender diversity in the supply chain, including a focus to/spanspan style="text-transform: none" ensure female-owned businesses in the /spanspan style="text-transform: none"supply chain./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Employee Protection: Systems and policies for the reporting of internal ethical compliance complaints without retaliation or retribution, including but not limited to access to confidential third-party ethics hotlines or systems for confidential /spanspan style="text-transform: none"written complaints./span/p p style="font: italic 9pt/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 14.4pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: left"span style="text-decoration: underline; text-transform: none; font-style: italic"ispan style="text-decoration: underline"Commitment, Transparency amp; Accountability/span/i/span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Commitment to Women’s Empowerment: Recognition and commitment to ensuring women’s empowerment in /spanspan style="text-transform: none"the workplace./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt 28.8pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: -14.4pt; text-align: justify"span style="width: 14.39pt; text-indent: 0; display: inline-block"span style="text-transform: none"•/span/spanspan style="text-transform: none"Audit: Undertaken and awarded an independent gender audit certificate by an Equileap- /spanspan style="text-transform: none"recognized body./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"The Underlying Index consists of the 75 securities with the highest Equileap Score, subject to constraints on component turnover and industry exposure. The Underlying Index is equally weighted and /spanspan style="text-transform: none"rebalanced quarterly./span/p p style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; -sec-ix-redline: true; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"As of June 30, /spanspan style="text-transform: none"2024, the market capitalization range of the Underlying Index was /spanspan style="text-transform: none"approximately $477.28 million /spanspan style="text-transform: none"to $1.28 trillion. As of June 30, 2024, the primary sectors within the Underlying Index were financials, consumer /spanspan style="text-transform: none"discretionary, and /spanspan style="text-transform: none"consumer staples. /span/pp style="font: 9pt/11.5pt Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify"span style="text-transform: none"The Fund also may invest in one or more/spanspan style="text-transform: none" ETFs advised by the Advisor (“Affiliated ETFs”) that are not/spanspan style="text-transform: none" components of the index if such an investment will help the Fund track the /spanspan style="text-transform: none"Underlying Index./span/p