The investment objective of the Fund is to achieve the net total return performance of the STOXX Europe 600 Optimised Banks Index (the "Reference Index") less fees, expenses and transaction costs. The Reference Index is derived from the STOXX Europe 600 Supersector Banks Index. The Reference Index provides a representation of STOXX Limited sector leaders based on the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB). The Reference Index captures equal or improved liquidity and country diversification of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. The Reference Index applies a sector dependent liquidity cap that reduces the weighting of only those constituents whose average daily turnover, as a fraction of its free float marketcap is below the sector average. This hybrid market cap and with the liquidity weighting methodology optimizes the tradability of the Reference Index while retaining the free float market capitalisation weighting across the larger and more liquid constituents.