The objective of the Fund is to track the performance of global investment grade (high quality) fixed rate bond markets. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index (the Index) as closely as possible. The Fund invests primarily in securities included in the Index. These securities are rated investment grade and include bonds issued by governments and corporations and certain types of asset-backed securities. In seeking to track the performance of the Index the Fund will use a stratified sampling strategy to build a representative portfolio. Consequently, the Fund will typically hold only a subset of the securities included in the Index.