and options on
futures contracts, as well as securities not included in the Underlying Index, but which NTI believes will help the Fund track its Underlying Index.
The Underlying Index is created and sponsored by NTI, as the Index Provider. NTI also serves as the investment adviser to the Fund. The Index Provider
determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying
Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.
The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total
assets (including the value of the collateral received).
The Fund is “non-diversified” under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”), as amended, and may invest
more of its assets in fewer issuers than “diversified” funds.
Industry Concentration Policy. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of
industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is concentrated.
As of December 31, 2025, the Underlying Index was concentrated in the Information Technology sector. The components of the Underlying Index, and the degree to which these components represent certain
industries or sectors, may change over time.
As with any investment, you could lose all or part of your investment in the Fund, and the
Fund’s performance could trail that of other investments. The Fund is subject to certain risks, including the principal risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the
Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), trading price, yield, total return and ability to meet its investment objective. Each risk noted below is considered a principal risk of investing in
the Fund, regardless of the order in which it appears. The significance of each risk
factor below may change over time and you should review each risk factor carefully.
ESG Investment Risk is the risk that because the Index Provider includes and excludes issuers and assigns weights to
issuers in the Underlying Index by applying non-financial factors, the Fund may
underperform the broader equity market or other funds that do or do not use ESG factors,
scores, or screens in their securities selection process, or use a different ESG
methodology. The ESG methodology of the Underlying Index will affect the Fund’s exposure to certain companies and sectors and may adversely affect the
Fund’s performance depending on whether such companies and sectors are in or out of favor. Although the Underlying Index is designed to measure a
portfolio of companies with certain ESG characteristics, there is no assurance that
every security in the Underlying Index or Fund will have ESG characteristics or that companies that have historically exhibited such characteristics will continue to exhibit such characteristics. There is also the
risk that the Fund may have indirect exposure to companies that have been excluded from
the Underlying Index through its use of certain derivative instruments.
Currently, there is a lack of common industry standards relating to the development and application
of ESG criteria, which may make it difficult to compare the Fund’s principal
investment strategies with the investment strategies of other funds that integrate certain ESG criteria. The subjective value that investors may assign to certain types of ESG characteristics may differ
substantially from that of the assessment by the Index Provider or a data provider.
Investors can differ in their views of what constitutes positive or negative ESG
characteristics. As a result, the Fund may invest in companies that do not reflect the beliefs and values of any particular investor. A company included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit
positive or favorable ESG characteristics. The companies selected by the Index Provider
as demonstrating certain ESG characteristics may not be the same companies selected by other index providers or investment managers as exhibiting those characteristics.
The Index Provider relies on various sources of information regarding an issuer, including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. ESG
information from third-party data providers may be incomplete, inaccurate or
unavailable. Neither the Fund nor NTI can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of the issuers of the securities included
in the Fund’s Underlying Index. The Index Provider uses third-party data that it
believes to be reliable, but it does not guarantee the accuracy of such third-party data. Data can vary across providers or within industries. ESG standards differ by region and industry, and a company’s
ESG practices or the Index Provider’s or data providers’ assessment of a company’s ESG practices may change over time. Regulatory changes or interpretations regarding the definitions
and/or use of ESG criteria could have a material adverse effect on the Fund’s
ability to invest in accordance with its investment policies and/or achieve its investment objective.