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, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in constituents of the Index and/or investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially similar to the economic characteristics of such constituents.

The Index is provided by Gapstow Capital Partners, L.P. (the “Index Provider”) and is designed to provide diversified exposure to private credit and other alternative credit investments. The Index is comprised of registered closed-end investment companies (“CEFs”), including CEFs that have elected to be regulated as “business development companies” (“BDCs” and, together with CEFs, the “Underlying Funds”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), and real estate investment trusts (“REITs” and, together with Underlying Funds, the “Vehicles”) that are listed and publicly traded on a major U.S. stock exchange.

To be eligible for inclusion in the Index, a Vehicle must: (i) be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), (ii) be listed and publicly traded on a major U.S. stock exchange, (iii) have intra-day pricing provided by such exchange, (iv) have traded for at least the most recent 90 calendar days, (v) have a permanent capital structure (i.e., Vehicles that have a relatively stable number of shares outstanding, such as a CEF that rarely issues new shares or redeems existing shares), (vi) be perpetual (i.e., without set maturity or termination dates such as target or term funds), (vii) not invest primarily in other Vehicles (e.g., not be a CEF that invests primarily in other CEFs), (viii) have a stated objective of investing primarily in private credit loans (including corporate loans, commercial real estate loans, and non-agency residential mortgages) or other forms of alternative credit investments (including public high-yield corporate bonds (“junk bonds”), broadly-syndicated loans, collateralized loan obligations, mortgage-backed securities, and other asset-backed securities), (ix) have a six-month average daily market capitalization of greater than $100 million, and (x) have a six-month average daily trading volume greater than $750,000.

Vehicles meeting the foregoing requirements are classified based on the Vehicle’s investment holdings in the following alternative credit sectors: (i) private corporate lending, (ii) commercial real estate lending, (iii) non-agency real estate debt, (iv) public corporate debt, (v) agency real estate debt, and (vi) multi-sector alternative credit. The target number of Vehicles in each of the listed sectors ranges from three to seven. On each rebalancing date, the Index methodology seeks an allocation in which 60% of the constituent Vehicles are focused on private credit investment opportunities (private corporate lending, commercial real estate lending, and non-agency real estate debt) and 40% of the constituent Vehicles are focused primarily on other alternative credit investments. The allocation of constituents in the Index may vary from this target allocation between rebalancing dates.

At the time of inclusion in the Index, at least 75% of a Vehicle’s investment holdings must provide exposure to a foregoing sector to be classified within that sector. Within each sector, eligible Vehicles are selected based on market capitalization until approximately thirty-five (35) Vehicles spanning the foregoing sectors are included as constituents.

Constituents in the Index are equal-weighted. The Index is rebalanced quarterly and reconstituted semi-annually.

To the extent the Index is concentrated in the securities of companies assigned to a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will seek to concentrate its investments in (i.e., hold more than 25% of its assets) in such industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as the Index.

Use of Blockchain

As described further below, through its transfer agent, the Fund uses blockchain technology in relation to maintaining a record of its shares. The following “Use of Blockchain” section describes what blockchain technology is and how the Fund uses it for the recording of its shares.

WisdomTree Transfers, Inc., the Fund’s transfer agent (“WisdomTree Transfers” or “Transfer Agent”), maintains the official record of share ownership through an integrated recordkeeping system with records in book-entry form and digital representations of Fund shares that are recorded – or tokenized – on the applicable blockchain. A transfer of the record on the blockchain can act as an information source for the Transfer Agent to register a transaction in its book-entry records. The Transfer Agent will reconcile book-entry and blockchain transactions on at least a daily basis. Reconciliation involves maintaining a matching book-entry record and blockchain record of the total number of shares in circulation, the ownership of the shares at any given time, and all transactions between parties involving the shares. The Transfer Agent’s book-entry records constitute the official record of share ownership. The policies and procedures of the Fund and the Transfer Agent both address the use of blockchain integrated recordkeeping systems. The Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has approved these policies and procedures, including those that address the use of blockchain integrated recordkeeping systems.

A blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that digitally records transactions in a verifiable way using cryptography. A distributed ledger is a database in which data is stored in a decentralized manner. Cryptography is a method of storing and transmitting data in a particular form so that only those for whom it is intended can read and process it. A blockchain stores transaction data in “blocks” that are linked together to form a “chain”, and hence the name blockchain. Transactions on the blockchain are verified and authenticated by computers on the network. The process of authenticating a transaction before it is recorded ensures that only valid and authorized transactions are permanently recorded as “blocks” on the blockchain.

In order to facilitate the use of blockchain technology, a potential shareholder must have a blockchain wallet. WisdomTree Digital Movement, Inc. or WisdomTree Digital Trust Company, LLC, as applicable (each entity, as applicable, “WisdomTree Digital”) provides a Stellar-based wallet, including through a mobile application for individual shareholders, WisdomTree Prime® (the “App”). Investors may, for their convenience and in their sole discretion, elect to use their own wallet if registered by the Transfer Agent or its agents in their sole discretion through the App for retail investors or WisdomTree ConnectTM (the “Portal”) for institutional investors. The Portal may be accessed via a web-based portal or via application programming interface (see “Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares” below). A blockchain wallet is a software application which stores a user’s “private key” and related digital or tokenized assets and is used to facilitate sending digital or tokenized assets on a particular blockchain. The term “digital assets” as used herein refers to native crypto assets of blockchains or protocols running on top of blockchains and the term “tokenized assets” as used herein refers to the creation of a digital representation of a traditional asset, such as the Fund shares, on the blockchain or the issuance of such an asset directly on the blockchain. A “private key” is one of two numbers in a cryptographic “key pair.” A key pair consists of a “public key” and its corresponding private key, both of which are lengthy alphanumeric codes, derived together and possessing a unique relationship. The private key is used by the owner of a digital wallet to send (i.e., digitally sign and authenticate) digital or tokenized assets and is private to the wallet owner. The public key is, as the name implies, public and open to others on the applicable blockchain to send digital assets to. The blockchain will only record public key information. WisdomTree Digital holds the private keys associated with Stellar-based wallets for individual shareholders. Investors opting to use their own wallets will be responsible for holding the private key associated with their wallets, which is essential for authenticating and authorizing transactions on the applicable blockchain. An investor may choose to hold the private key in their own self-hosted wallet service or use a third-party wallet service that holds the private key. Accordingly, the Stellar blockchain is currently the default blockchain utilized for retail investors, although investors may use other supported blockchains, which may offer benefits such as different transaction speeds or efficiencies based on the investor’s operational preferences.

The Transfer Agent utilizes a permissioned system that operates on top of public, permissionless blockchains. The permissioned system is established through a combination of policies, procedures, and technological controls which collectively seek to ensure that the blockchain operates as an integrated but supplementary recordkeeping mechanism under the oversight of the Transfer Agent. To create and maintain this permissioned structure on public blockchains, WisdomTree Transfers registers and associates each blockchain wallet with relevant personal identifying information which is maintained in an off-chain registry (i.e., a separate database that is not available to the public and is used to satisfy anti-money laundering regulations). Permission is granted only to registered wallets, sometimes referred to as “whitelisting”, thereby restricting the ability to transact in tokenized shares to pre-approved participants. Smart contracts are deployed as part of the operational framework to enforce compliance with the Transfer Agent’s policies and procedures, as applicable. Specifically, smart contracts have been developed to support functions such as transfer restrictions to prevent unauthorized transfers to or from unregistered wallets and ability to claw back tokens to the extent that the digital representation of Fund share ownership does not align with the book-entry records. These smart contracts are designed, deployed, and maintained by WisdomTree Digital with oversight by the Transfer Agent. In this manner, this permissioned system prevents transactions between unknown persons or unknown blockchain wallets, even though blockchain infrastructure itself remains permissionless.

It is anticipated that Fund shareholders may have the benefit of shares that may be operated on more than one blockchain, such as the blockchains noted under “Additional Information About the Purchase and Redemption of Fund Shares.”. This feature may provide shareholders with the ability to move the record of ownership between blockchain wallets, such as between the Stellar and Ethereum blockchains as desired, which may include through interoperability, which is facilitated by the Transfer Agent’s process of burning and minting the digital representations of shares on each blockchain and the Transfer Agent continuing to maintain the Fund’s official records through integrated recordkeeping. These features may permit applicable shareholders to potentially take advantage of the benefits of a supported blockchain of their choice (i.e., Stellar or Ethereum blockchain), such as transaction speed or efficiency, while also helping facilitate the Fund’s shares being available for purchase, sale, or transfer in the broader blockchain ecosystem.

The recording of digital representation of Fund shares on the blockchain will not affect the Fund’s investments in securities. The Fund will not invest in any digital assets (referred to as, among other things, virtual currencies).