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&lt;p style="font: bold 11pt/12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"&gt;Objective.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;The Trust seeks above-average capital appreciation.
Under normal circumstances, the Trust will invest at least 80% of its assets in artificial intelligence (&#x201c;AI&#x201d;) infrastructure
companies. AI infrastructure companies include (1) real estate developers and REITs that build, own, or manage data centers or facilities
housing AI infrastructure, (2) utilities companies that provide power to AI-related data centers, (3) semiconductor firms that design,
manufacture, or supply chips and related hardware essential for data center operations and AI workloads, (4) cloud service providers and
hyperscalers that operate large-scale data centers hosting significant volumes of data and supporting AI applications and (5) industrials
companies engaged in the manufacturing of electrical components, equipment or instruments used in power generation for AI-related data
centers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;The Trust is concentrated (i.e., invests
25% or more of Trust assets) in common stocks of companies within the information technology sector.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="font: bold 11pt/12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"&gt;Portfolio Selection Process.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;The initial universe is comprised of AI infrastructure
companies as described above.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;Next, we examine the historical financial
results of the common stocks from the initial universe. The common stocks are then evaluated using fundamental factors such as sales,
earnings and cash flow growth; valuation factors such as price to earnings, price to cash flow, price to sales and price to book; technical
factors such as price momentum and earnings surprises; and qualitative factors such as competitive advantages, new products and quality
of management.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;An estimated value is calculated for each
of the companies utilizing a Cash Flow Return on Investment (&#x201c;CFROI&#x201d;) method. The CFROI method compares an estimate of a company&#x2019;s
internal rate of return against an estimate of a company&#x2019;s cost of capital. Companies that generate returns in excess of their capital
costs are favored over companies that do not. A secondary valuation is also made employing a concept called Economic Margin (&#x201c;EM&#x201d;).
EM measures the return a company earns versus its cost of capital to determine if a company is generating wealth. The companies which
currently trade at an attractive market price relative to their estimated value are favored over companies that do not.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;The above factors are not specifically weighted,
but rather are considered in combination with each other to construct an overall view for each common stock. After this holistic review,
the Sponsor makes a final determination and selects the common stocks with the best prospects for above-average capital appreciation by
identifying those that meet our investment objective, trade at attractive valuations, and, in our opinion, are likely to exceed market
expectations of future cash flows. The Sponsor believes that AI infrastructure companies are well-positioned for above-average capital
appreciation due to the anticipated increase in the demand for data centers in order to build, deploy, and operate AI applications.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;The final portfolio consists of 30 approximately
equally weighted common stocks of AI infrastructure companies.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;While not a part of the Trust&#x2019;s portfolio
selection process, the Trust also invests in dividend-paying securities, foreign securities, depositary receipts and companies with various
market capitalizations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font: 10pt/11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"&gt;As with any similar investments, there can
be no assurance that the objective of the Trust will be achieved. See &#x201c;Risk Factors&#x201d; for a discussion of the risks of investing
in the Trust.&lt;/p&gt;

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