The investment objective of the Fund is to seek to track the performance of the the shortdated U.S. Treasury bond market. The investment policy of the Fund is to track the performance of the Index as closely as possible, while seeking to minimise as far as possible the tracking difference between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index. The Index measures the performance of the U.S. Government bond market and includes public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity of between one and up to (but not including) three years.