The Fund seeks to achieve its investment goal by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the value of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of foreign securities including those domiciled in emerging markets. The Fund may invest in common stocks, preferred shares, depositary receipts, equity-linked instruments of all capitalizations, and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). The Fund invests primarily in the equity markets listed in the Morgan Stanley Capital International All Country World Index ex US (“MSCI ACWI ex-US Net”) Index, the benchmark against which the Fund measures the performance of its portfolio.

Subject to the oversight of the Board, Wilmington Funds Management Corporation (“WFMC” or the “Advisor”) seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment goal by retaining Wellington Management Company LLP (“Wellington”) to manage the Fund’s assets. The Advisor also engages Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (“WTIA”) to oversee Wellington, to monitor portfolio risk and, on a discretionary basis, to develop strategic exposure objectives and risk parameters for the Fund based on considerations such as macroeconomic outlook, relative valuation levels and volatility in the markets, market flows and market liquidity, and information relating to business cycles, as well as input from Wellington.

Based on the strategic exposure objectives and risk parameters established by WTIA, Wellington constructs an actively managed, diversified portfolio of foreign equity securities. Based on the objectives and parameters developed by WTIA, Wellington will allocate and reallocate the portfolio among a selection of independent equity management teams within Wellington. Each team pursues its own investment strategy or style, such as geography/region, growth/value, market capitalization, event-driven, economic sector, industry, or valuation measure.

In combining equity management teams and strategies, Wellington uses a number of proprietary analytical tools, including market environments analysis, extreme events analysis, stress testing, and simulation analysis. Through the strategy selection process, Wellington seeks to construct a portfolio comprised of a diversified group of long-only equity strategies with differing investment approaches that provides an overall exposure, consistent with WTIA’s exposure objectives and risk parameters, comparable to the broader equity market and that reduces exposure to the risks typically associated with any single investment approach. The underlying Wellington equity management teams have complete discretion and responsibility for security selection and portfolio construction decisions within their respective portions of the Fund’s portfolio within the constraints of the

Fund’s investment goal, strategies and restrictions. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading as part of its investment strategy.

Subject to the oversight of the Board, Wilmington Funds Management Corporation (“WFMC” or the “Advisor”) seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment goal by retaining Wellington Management Company LLP (“Wellington”) to manage the Fund’s assets. The Advisor also engages Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (“WTIA”) to oversee Wellington, to monitor portfolio risk and, on a discretionary basis, to develop strategic exposure objectives and risk parameters for the Fund based on considerations such as macroeconomic outlook, relative valuation levels and volatility in the markets, market flows and market liquidity, and information relating to business cycles, as well as input from Wellington.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in securities that produce dividend income. The Fund’s strategy targets a portfolio level dividend yield of two times the S&P 500 dividend yield and seeks capital appreciation over a multi-year investment horizon principally through investments in U.S. large cap stocks, while maintaining low volatility versus the broader U.S. large-cap equity market. Volatility for purposes of the Fund’s investment objective is measured by beta, standard deviation, and/or down-market capture as compared to the U.S. large-cap equity market as measured by the Russell 1000^® Value Index. Although the Fund’s strategy is focused principally on U.S. large cap stocks, the Fund may have holdings of non-U.S. and non-large cap stocks. The strategy also strives to minimize drawdowns during significant negative market environments.

The Fund invests at least 80%, under normal circumstances, of the value of its net assets in equity securities. The Fund will invest in publicly-traded equity securities, including common stock, preferred stock and depositary receipts, of companies of all market capitalizations. The Fund may invest up to 70% of its assets in the equity securities of non-U.S. issuers, including companies that conduct their principal business activities in emerging markets or whose securities are traded principally on exchanges in emerging markets. The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded funds, futures contracts on broad-based equity indexes and other derivatives.

“Alpha” refers to the potential for returns that are attributable to active investment judgment, including investment research, manager selection, security selection, asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, or other investment techniques, as distinct from returns attributable solely to broad market movements. The term is intended to describe the Fund’s investment concept and does not imply that the Fund will achieve positive returns, outperform any benchmark, or avoid losses.

Wilmington Funds Management Corporation (“WFMC” or the “Advisor”) seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment goal by retaining Wellington Management Company LLP (“Wellington”), to manage the Fund’s assets. The Advisor also engages Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (“WTIA”) to oversee Wellington, to monitor portfolio risk and, on a discretionary basis, to develop strategic exposure objectives and risk parameters for the Fund based on considerations such as macroeconomic outlook, relative valuation levels and volatility in the markets, market flows and market liquidity, and information relating to business cycles, as well as input from Wellington.

Based on the strategic exposure objectives and risk parameters established by WTIA, Wellington constructs an actively managed, global and diversified portfolio of equity securities, and implements an index-based hedging strategy in an effort to reduce market exposure, moderate portfolio volatility and limit the severity of portfolio losses in times of market downturns.

Based on the objectives and parameters developed by WTIA, Wellington will allocate and reallocate the portfolio among a selection of independent equity management teams within Wellington. Each team pursues its own investment strategy or style, such as geography/region, growth/value, market capitalization, event-driven, economic sector, industry, or valuation measure.

In combining equity management teams and strategies, Wellington uses a number of proprietary analytical tools,

including market environments analysis, extreme events analysis, stress testing, and simulation analysis. Through the strategy selection process, Wellington seeks to construct a portfolio comprised of a diversified group of long-only equity strategies with differing investment approaches that provides an overall exposure, consistent with WTIA’s exposure objectives and risk parameters, comparable to the broader equity market and that reduces exposure to the risks typically associated with any single investment approach. The underlying Wellington equity management teams have complete discretion and responsibility for security selection and portfolio construction decisions within their respective portions of the Fund’s portfolio within the constraints of the Fund’s investment goal, strategies and restrictions. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading as part of its principal investment strategy.

Wellington will implement the hedging strategy by investing a portion of the Fund’s net assets in futures contracts on broad-based equity indexes, the constituents of which include the types of securities in which the Fund invests directly, and in cash, cash equivalents and short-term debt instruments to satisfy applicable margin requirements for the Fund’s derivatives positions. The net market exposure (sum of long and synthetic short positions including cash) of the Fund is expected to range generally between 35% to 55% of the net asset value of the Fund, depending on WTIA’s analysis of prevailing market conditions, although the exposure may fall outside of this range. The Fund’s short exposure will be achieved through the use of equity index futures or other derivative exposures. Wellington may also invest in a variety of other derivative instruments, such as swaps, forwards, other futures contracts and options, in order to implement the hedging strategy, to hedge foreign currency risk, and to gain equity-like exposure in certain markets.

The Fund considers a company to be a real estate company if at least 50% of its assets, gross income or net profits is derived from (i) development, ownership, leasing, financing, construction, management or sale of real estate or (ii) products and services that are related to the real estate industry, such as manufacturers and distributors of building supplies and financial institutions which issue or service mortgages.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the value of its net assets in municipal securities that provide interest exempt from federal income tax. However, the income on these securities may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (“AMT”). The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in other types of fixed income securities that provide income that is subject to federal income tax. Additionally, the Fund may invest in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). The Fund generally invests in securities rated in the top four categories by a rating agency such as Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) or if unrated, determined by the investment advisor to be of comparable quality, but also may invest up to 10% of the Fund’s total assets in lower-rated debt securities (“junk bonds”). The Fund seeks to maintain a weighted average maturity of three to ten years. However, the Fund has no maturity restrictions on individual issues, and the weighted average maturity of the Fund’s portfolio will vary depending on market conditions.

The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in securities relating to one political subdivision, such as any state or U.S. territory. The Fund may focus its investments in sectors of the municipal securities market, such as healthcare or housing. There are no limitations on the Fund’s investment in any one of the three general categories of municipal obligations: general obligation bonds, special revenue bonds and private activity bonds.

In selecting securities, the Fund’s investment advisor focuses on credit analysis, the relative values of different sectors of the market, geographic diversity and securities with different and potentially advantageous structures. The investment advisor seeks to construct a portfolio with substantially the same interest rate exposure as the Standard & Poor’s Investment Grade Intermediate Municipal Bond Index, and does not select securities based on forecasts of interest rates.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment goal, under normal circumstances, by investing its net assets so that at least 80% of the income it distributes will be exempt from federal regular income tax and personal income tax imposed by the State of New York and New York municipalities. However, the income on these securities may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (“AMT”). The Fund generally invests in investment grade municipal securities. The Fund seeks to maintain a weighted average maturity of three to ten years. However, the Fund has no maturity restrictions on individual issues, and the weighted average maturity of the Fund’s portfolio will vary depending on market conditions.

The Fund operates as a “Government Money Market Fund,” as defined in Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. This means that the Fund invests at least 99.5% of its total assets in (1) U.S. government securities, (2) repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully by U.S. government securities or cash, (3) cash, and/or (4) other money market mutual funds that operate as Government Money Market Funds. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in U.S. government securities and repurchase agreements that are fully collateralized by U.S. government securities. A U.S. government security generally means any security issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the United States, or by a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an instrumentality of the government of the United States. In contrast to the Fund’s 99.5% policy, the Fund’s 80% policy does not include cash or repurchase agreements collateralized by cash. While the Board of Trustees may elect to impose a fee upon the sale of your shares, the Board has not elected to do so at this time. Should the Board elect to do so, such change would only become effective after shareholders were provided with specific advance notice of the change in the Fund’s policy and provided with the opportunity to redeem their shares in accordance with Rule 2a-7 before the policy change became effective.

In selecting securities for the Fund, the investment advisor considers factors such as current yield, the anticipated level of interest rates, and the maturity of the instrument relative to the maturity of the entire Fund. In addition, the Fund may purchase only securities that meet certain SEC requirements relating to maturity, diversification and credit quality, and must meet certain SEC requirements relating to portfolio liquidity. Under these requirements, the Fund’s securities must have remaining maturities of 397 calendar days or less, and the Fund must have a dollar-weighted average maturity of 60 calendar days or less and a dollar-weighted average life of 120 calendar days or less.