Equity Market Risk.  Common stocks are generally exposed to greater risk than other types of securities, such as preferred stock and debt obligations, because common stockholders generally have inferior rights to receive payment from specific issuers. The equity securities held in the Fund’s portfolio may experience sudden, unpredictable drops in value or long periods of decline in value. This may occur because of factors that affect securities markets generally or factors affecting specific issuers, industries, or sectors in which the Fund invests.

Information Technology Sector Risks.  The information technology sector includes companies engaged in internet software and services, technology hardware and storage peripherals, electronic equipment instruments and components, and semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, among other things. Information technology companies face intense competition, both domestically and internationally, which may have an adverse effect on profit margins. Information technology companies may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel. The products of information technology companies may face rapid product obsolescence due to technological developments and frequent new product introduction, unpredictable changes in growth rates and competition for the services of qualified personnel. Failure to introduce new products, develop and maintain a loyal customer base, or achieve general market acceptance for their products could have a material adverse effect on a company’s business. Companies in the information technology sector are heavily dependent on intellectual property and the loss of patent, copyright and trademark protections may adversely affect the profitability of these companies. The information technology sector has recently experienced significant disruptions caused by artificial intelligence (“AI”) related events, including layoffs and workforce re-alignments related to AI advancements and AI-related spending and escalating AI-enabled cyberattacks and data breaches. These events have led to significant market volatility and stock declines for certain software, cybersecurity, and other companies within this sector.

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Industry Risk.  Competitive pressures may have a significant effect on the financial condition of semiconductor companies and, as product cycles shorten and manufacturing capacity increases, these companies may become increasingly subject to aggressive pricing, which hampers profitability. Reduced demand for end-user products, under-utilization of manufacturing capacity, and other factors could adversely impact the operating results of companies in the semiconductor sector. Semiconductor companies typically face high capital costs and may be heavily dependent on intellectual property rights. The semiconductor sector is highly cyclical, which may cause the operating results of many semiconductor companies to vary significantly. The stock prices of companies in the semiconductor sector have been and likely will continue to be extremely volatile.

Space Investing Risks.  Companies involved in the design, manufacture, or launch of spacecraft, launch vehicles, or related systems face significant risks associated with launch failures, deployment malfunctions, mission delays, and cost overruns; space launches are inherently complex and costly, and failures may result in the total loss of spacecraft or payloads, substantial financial losses, reputational harm, increased regulatory scrutiny, and adverse impacts on a company’s financial condition and stock price. Space-related businesses often rely on advanced, emerging, or unproven technologies and may be adversely affected by rapid technological change, engineering challenges, design flaws, the inability to achieve expected performance, or competitors’ development of superior or lower-cost technologies. The space industry is subject to extensive domestic and international regulation (including licensing requirements, export controls, national security restrictions, environmental regulation, and orbital debris mitigation standards), and changes in laws, regulations, or regulatory interpretations may increase compliance costs, delay operations, restrict market access, or limit the deployment or operation of space-based systems. Many space-focused companies depend on governmental or quasi-governmental customers and contracts, and reductions in government budgets, policy changes, contract terminations, delays, or failures to renew contracts could materially and adversely affect revenues and financial performance. Space-based operations are exposed to risks arising from orbital debris, collisions, congestion in Earth’s orbits, and space weather (including solar activity), any of which may damage satellites or spacecraft and result in service disruptions, data loss, reduced operational lifespans, or complete mission failure. The space economy is evolving, and many companies may have limited operating histories, depend on a narrow set of products or services, or rely on a small number of customers or missions for a substantial portion of revenues; delays in commercialization or failure to achieve anticipated adoption of space-based services may adversely affect profitability and valuations. The space industry is highly competitive and characterized by rapid innovation; increased competition may lead to pricing pressure, reduced market share, or higher research and development costs. Many space-focused companies rely on governmental or quasi-governmental customers and contracts, and adverse changes in government policy or budgets could materially affect revenues.

Special Purpose Vehicle and Private Investment Risk. The Fund may obtain exposure to privately held companies through investments in SPVs or similar private investment vehicles. The Fund generally will hold a passive, non-controlling interest in an SPV and therefore may have limited or no ability to influence the management, disposition of investments or other activities of the SPV. The Fund will be exposed indirectly to the risks associated with the SPV’s underlying investments as well as risks associated with the SPV itself. Interests in SPVs may be subject to substantial restrictions on transfer and may lack an established secondary market. Accordingly, the Fund may be unable to dispose of an SPV investment at the time or price it desires, and an SPV investment may be classified as illiquid. SPV interests and their underlying private-company securities may not have readily available market quotations and therefore may be fair valued. Such valuations involve significant judgment and uncertainty and may differ materially from the value ultimately realized. The Fund also will be subject to risks associated with an SPV’s sponsor, manager, administrator and other service providers, including operational, counterparty and potential conflict-of-interest risks. An SPV may incur expenses, liabilities or other obligations that reduce the value of the Fund’s investment, and the bankruptcy, insolvency, misconduct or operational failure of an SPV, its manager or a relevant counterparty could adversely affect the Fund.

Options Contracts. The use of options contracts involves investment strategies and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. The prices of options are volatile and are influenced by, among other things, actual and anticipated changes in the value of the underlying instrument, including the anticipated volatility, which are affected by fiscal and monetary policies and by national and international political, changes in the actual or implied volatility or the reference asset, the time remaining until the expiration of the option contract and economic events. For the Fund in particular, the value of the options contracts in which it invests are substantially influenced by the value of the relevant Underlying Securities. The Fund may experience substantial downside from specific option positions and certain option positions held by the Fund may expire worthless. The options held by the Fund are exercisable at the strike price on their expiration date. As an option approaches its expiration date, its value typically increasingly moves with the value of the underlying instrument.

However, prior to such date, the value of an option generally does not increase or decrease at the same rate as the underlying instrument. There may at times be an imperfect correlation between the movement in the values of options contracts and the underlying instrument, and there may at times not be a liquid secondary market for certain options contracts. The value of the options held by the Fund will be determined based on market quotations or other recognized pricing methods. Additionally, as the Fund may continuously maintain indirect exposure to one or more of the underlying securities through the use of options contracts, as the options contracts it holds are exercised or expire it will enter into new options contracts, a practice referred to as “rolling.” If the expiring options contracts do not generate proceeds enough to cover the cost of entering into new options contracts, the Fund may experience losses.

Counterparty Risk. The Fund is subject to counterparty risk by virtue of its investments in options contracts. Transactions in some types of derivatives, including options, are required to be centrally cleared (“cleared derivatives”). In a transaction involving cleared derivatives, the Fund’s counterparty is a clearing house rather than a bank or broker. Since the Fund is not a member of clearing houses and only members of a clearing house (“clearing members”) can participate directly in the clearing house, the Fund will hold cleared derivatives through accounts at clearing members. In cleared derivatives positions, the Fund will make payments (including margin payments) to and receive payments from a clearing house through their accounts at clearing members. Customer funds held at a clearing organization in connection with any options contracts are held in a commingled omnibus account and are not identified to the name of the clearing member’s individual customers. As a result, assets deposited by the Fund with any clearing member as margin for options may, in certain circumstances, be used to satisfy losses of other clients of the Fund’s clearing member. In addition, although clearing members guarantee performance of their clients’ obligations to the clearing house, there is a risk that the assets of the Fund might not be fully protected in the event of the clearing member’s bankruptcy, as the Fund would be limited to recovering only a pro rata share of all available funds segregated on behalf of the clearing member’s customers for the relevant account class. The Fund is also subject to the risk that a limited number of clearing members are willing to transact on the Fund’s behalf, which heightens the risks associated with a clearing member’s default. If a clearing member defaults the Fund could lose some or all of the benefits of a transaction entered into by the Fund with the clearing member. If the Fund cannot find a clearing member to transact with on the Fund’s behalf, the Fund may be unable to effectively implement its investment strategy.

Large-Capitalization Risk. The securities of large-capitalization companies may be relatively mature compared to smaller companies and therefore subject to slower growth during times of economic expansion. Large-capitalization companies may also be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes.

Privately Placed Securities Risk. The Fund may invest in non-exchange traded, privately placed securities, including privately placed securities issued by special purpose vehicles, which are subject to liquidity and valuation risks. These risks may make it difficult for those securities to be traded or valued, especially in the event of adverse economic and liquidity conditions or adverse changes in the issuer’s financial condition. The market for certain non-exchange traded securities may be limited to institutional investors, subjecting such investments to further liquidity risk if a market were to limit institutional trading. There may also be less information available regarding such non-exchange traded securities than for publicly traded securities, which may make it more difficult for the Adviser to fully evaluate the risks of investing in such securities and as a result place the Fund’s assets at a greater risk of loss than if the Adviser has more complete information. In addition, the issuers of non-exchange traded securities may be distressed, insolvent, or delinquent in filing information needed to be listed on an exchange. Disposing of non-exchange traded securities, including privately placed securities, may involve time-consuming negotiation and legal expenses, and selling them promptly at an acceptable price may be difficult or impossible. Securities purchased in private placements may be subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. The Fund may have to bear the expense of registering restricted securities for resale and the risk of substantial delay in effecting registration.

Money Market Instrument Risk. The Fund may use a variety of money market instruments for cash management purposes, including money market funds, depositary accounts and repurchase agreements. Repurchase agreements are contracts in which a seller of securities agrees to buy the securities back at a specified time and price. Repurchase agreements may be subject to market and credit risk related to the collateral securing the repurchase agreement. Money market instruments may lose money.

Unrelated Business Risk. Many of the companies in which the Fund will invest have other business lines unrelated to one of the thematic categories. These other lines of business could adversely affect those firms’ operating results and, in turn, hurt the Fund’s performance. The operating results of companies with other business lines may fluctuate independently of the fluctuations in the relevant thematic category businesses. In addition, a particular company’s ability to engage in new business activities may expose it to additional risks for which it has less experience than its existing business lines. Despite a company’s possible success in activities linked to its use or one or more thematic categories, there can be no assurance that its other lines of business will not adversely affect the company’s business, financial condition, or market value. In addition, a particular company’s unrelated business may impact the Fund’s investment returns and it may be difficult to isolate thematic category-related returns from other return sources.

Third Party Data Risk. The composition of the Index, and consequently the Fund’s portfolio, is heavily dependent on information and data calculated and published by an independent third party calculation agent (“Third Party Data”). When Third Party Data proves to be incorrect or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon may lead to the inclusion or exclusion of securities from the Index that would have been excluded or included had the Third Party Data been correct and complete. If the composition of the Index reflects such errors, the Fund’s portfolio can also be expected to reflect the errors.

U.S. Government and U.S. Agency Obligations Risk. The Fund may invest in securities issued by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities. U.S. Government obligations include securities issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, such as the U.S. Treasury. Payment of principal and interest on U.S. Government obligations may be backed by the full faith and credit of the United States or may be backed solely by the issuing or guaranteeing agency or instrumentality itself. In the latter case, the investor must look principally to the agency or instrumentality issuing or guaranteeing the obligation for ultimate repayment, which agency or instrumentality may be privately owned. There can be no assurance that the U.S. Government would provide financial support to its agencies or instrumentalities (including government-sponsored enterprises) where it is not obligated to do so.

Non-Diversification Risk. Because the Fund is “non-diversified,” it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers than if it was a diversified fund. As a result, a decline in the value of an investment in a single issuer or a smaller number of issuers could cause the Fund’s overall value to decline to a greater degree than if the Fund held a more diversified portfolio.