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&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Supplement dated&#160;September 25, 2026, to
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&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This supplement provides new and additional
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&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Effective September 28, 2026, the fifth paragraph
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&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"&gt;After all potential Index constituents have been
identified and scored, the Index applies a weighting methodology by applicable Korean Manufacturing Industry whereby approximately 60%
of the Index is weighted to the AI Semiconductor Industry; 10% to each of the Rechargeable Battery, Power Grid &amp;amp; Nuclear Energy, and
Robotics &amp;amp; Humanoid Industries; and 5% to each of the Shipbuilding and Defense industries, respectively. The target size of the Index
is 35 constituents. Within the AI Semiconductor sector, the top two constituents by relative ranking are each assigned a fixed weight
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&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PLEASE RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</oef:SupplementToProspectusTextBlock>
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