Securities”), asset-backed securities and corporate
securities. The Fund also intends to invest in derivatives, including (but not limited to)
futures, swaps, options on swaps and other derivative instruments, which are used primarily
to hedge the Fund’s portfolio risks, manage the Fund’s duration and/or gain exposure to certain fixed income securities. 100% of the Fund’s portfolio will be invested in U.S. dollar-denominated securities.
The Fund may gain exposure to Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities through several methods, including by
utilizing to-be-announced (“TBA”) agreements in Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities or through the use of reverse repurchase agreements. TBA agreements for Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities are
standardized contracts for future delivery of fixed-rate mortgage pass-through securities in which the exact mortgage pools to be delivered are not specified until shortly before settlement. A reverse
repurchase agreement enables the Fund to gain exposure to specified pools of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities by purchasing them on a forward settling basis and using the proceeds of the reverse repurchase agreement
to settle the trade.
The Fund may also seek to obtain exposure to fixed income investments through investments in affiliated or
unaffiliated investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”).
The Fund’s investments in non-U.S. Government Securities must be rated AAA or Aaa by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) at the
time of purchase, or, if unrated, must be determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable credit quality. The Fund’s target duration range under normal interest rate conditions is expected to
approximate that of the Bloomberg U.S. Government/Mortgage Index, plus or minus one year, and over the past five years ended June 30, 2025, the duration of this index has ranged between 4.77 and 6.21 years.
“Duration” is a measure of a debt security’s price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer the duration of the Fund (or an individual debt security), the more sensitive its market price to changes in
interest rates. For example, if market interest rates increase by 1%, the market price of a debt security with a positive duration of 3 years will generally decrease by approximately 3%. Conversely, a 1% decline in
market interest rates will generally result in an increase of approximately 3% of that security’s market price.
The Investment Adviser measures the Fund’s performance against the Bloomberg U.S. Government/Mortgage Index.
Fixed Income Investment Philosophy:
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Combines diversified sources of return by employing multiple strategies
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Takes a global perspective to seek relative value opportunities
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Employs focused specialist teams to seek to identify short-term mis-pricings and incorporate long-term views
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Emphasizes a risk-aware approach as we view risk management as both an offensive and defensive tool
No one factor or consideration is determinative in the fundamental
investment process.
Principal Risks of the Fund |
Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or
guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any government agency. The Fund should not be relied upon as a complete investment program. There can be no assurance that the Fund
will achieve its investment objective. Investments in the Fund
involve substantial risks which prospective investors should consider
carefully before investing. The Fund's principal risks are presented below in alphabetical order, and not in the order of importance or
potential exposure.
Call/Prepayment Risk. An issuer could exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as a
Mortgage-Backed Security) earlier than expected. This may happen when there is a decline in
interest rates, when credit spreads change, or when an issuer’s credit quality improves. Under these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to recoup all of its initial investment and will also suffer from having to reinvest in lower-yielding securities.
Credit/Default Risk. An issuer or guarantor of fixed income securities
or instruments held by the Fund may default on its obligation to pay interest and repay
principal or default on any other obligation. Additionally, the credit quality of securities or instruments may deteriorate rapidly, which may impair the Fund’s liquidity and cause significant deterioration in
net asset value (“NAV”). These risks are heightened in market environments where interest rates are rising.
Derivatives Risk. The Fund's use of futures, swaps, options on swaps and other derivative instruments may result in losses,
including due to adverse market movements. These instruments, which may pose risks in
addition to and greater than those associated with investing directly in securities,
currencies or other assets and instruments, may increase market exposure and be illiquid or less liquid, volatile, difficult to price and leveraged so that small changes in the value of the underlying assets or instruments may produce
disproportionate losses to the Fund. Certain derivatives are also subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party in the transaction will not fulfill its contractual obligations. The use of derivatives is
a highly specialized activity that involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with investments in more traditional securities and instruments.
Floating and Variable Rate Obligations
Risk. For floating and variable rate obligations, there may be a lag between an actual change in the underlying interest rate benchmark
and the reset time for an interest payment of such an obligation, which could harm or benefit the Fund, depending on the interest rate environment or other circumstances. In a rising interest rate environment,
for example, a floating or variable rate obligation that does not reset immediately would prevent the Fund from taking full advantage of rising interest rates in a timely manner. However, in a declining interest rate
environment, the Fund may benefit from a lag due to an obligation’s interest rate payment not being immediately impacted by a decline in interest rates.
Certain floating and variable rate obligations have an interest rate floor feature, which prevents the interest rate payable by the security from dropping below a specified level as
compared to a reference interest rate (the “reference rate”), such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), a term SOFR rate published by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA)
calculated using certain derivatives markets (“Term SOFR”) or another rate determined using SOFR values. Such a floor protects the Fund from losses resulting from a decrease in the reference rate below the
specified level. However, if the reference rate is below the floor, there will be a lag between a rise in the reference rate and a rise in the interest rate payable by the obligation, and the Fund may not benefit from
increasing interest rates for a significant amount of time.
Some floating or variable rate obligations or investments of the Fund may have previously referenced the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). As a result of
benchmark reforms, publication of all LIBOR settings has ceased. Public and private sector actors have worked to establish alternative reference rates, like SOFR or Term SOFR, to be used in place of LIBOR. There is no
assurance that any such alternative