The Fund
invests primarily in common stocks of companies that comprise the EAFE
Index. The Fund is not managed according to traditional methods of "active"
investment management, which involve the buying and selling of securities
based upon economic, financial and market analyses and investment judgment.
Instead, the Fund utilizes a "passive" or "indexing"
investment approach that attempts to replicate, before expenses, the performance
of the EAFE Index. The Fund invests in a statistically selected sample
of equity securities included in the EAFE Index and in derivative instruments
linked to the EAFE Index.
The Fund intends to
purchase investments so that the market capitalizations, industry weightings
and other fundamental characteristics of the stocks and derivative instruments chosen are similar
to the EAFE Index as a whole.
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