The Fund employs a “passive management” – or indexing – investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund generally uses a representative sampling strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning it generally will invest in a sample of the securities in the Index whose risk, return and other characteristics resemble the risk, return and other characteristics of the Index as a whole. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund’s total assets (exclusive of collateral held from securities lending) will be invested in constituent securities of the Index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of such constituent securities.

Cloud computing is a term used to describe the delivery, through the Internet, of computing services, which can include servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence. The Index is provided by Nasdaq, Inc. (the “Index Provider”) and is designed to track the performance of emerging public companies primarily involved in providing cloud computing software and services to their customers, which derive the majority of their revenues from business-oriented software products, as determined by Bessemer Venture Partners (“BVP”), that are both: (i) provided to customers through a cloud delivery model (e.g., hosted on remote and multi-tenant server infrastructure, accessed through a web browser or mobile device, or consumed as an Application Programming Interface (“API”)); and (ii) provided to customers through a cloud economic model (e.g., a subscription-based, volume-based or transaction-based offering) (collectively, “Cloud Computing Companies”).

To be eligible for inclusion in the Index, a company must also meet the following criteria as of the Index screening date: (i) have a revenue growth rate of at least 15% for each of the last two full fiscal years for new Index constituents and a revenue growth rate of at least 7% in at least one of the last two fiscal years for existing Index constituents, each as determined by BVP; (ii) have its primary listing on a Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, Inc., or Cboe Global Markets Inc. exchange; (iii) have a minimum market capitalization of $500 million; and (iv) have a minimum three-month average daily trading volume of $5 million.

The Index also excludes companies based on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) criteria. The ESG criteria generally seeks to exclude from the Index’s eligible investment universe companies that: (i) do not comply with the United Nations Global Compact Principles related to human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption; (ii) are involved directly or through corporate ownership in the production and/or distribution of, or the provision of components or services for, controversial weapons (e.g., anti-personnel mines, biological and chemical weapons, and nuclear weapons); (iii) derive meaningful revenue (i.e., more than 5% of revenue) from small arms manufacture-, sales- and distribution-related activities; (iv) manufacture tobacco products, supply tobacco-related products and/or services and/or derive meaningful revenue from the distribution and/or retail sale of tobacco products; or (v) derive meaningful revenue from oil and gas exploration activities in Arctic regions, oil sands extraction activities, shale energy exploration and/or production activities, or thermal coal-based power generation-related activities and/or extraction-related activities. The Index Provider has in the past modified, and may in the future further modify, the ESG criteria applied to determine a company’s eligibility to be included in the Index. As a result, the foregoing list is qualified in its entirety by reference to the index methodology for the Index.

The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually. Securities are equal-dollar weighted in the Index. WisdomTree, Inc. (“WisdomTree”), the parent company of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. (“WisdomTree Asset Management” or the “Adviser”), currently uses the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®), a widely recognized industry classification methodology developed by MSCI, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, to identify the extent of the Index’s exposure to a sector or industry. A GICS sector typically is comprised of multiple industries. Because the Fund seeks to track the Index it is expected to have the same sector and industry exposure as the Index. While the Index’s and the Fund’s sector exposure may vary from time to time, as of September 30, 2024, the Index had significant exposure (e.g., approximately 15% or more of the Index’s total weight) to the Information Technology Sector.