The investment objective of the Fund is to seek to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns, which reflects the return of the Bloomberg U.S. Intermediate Credit Bond Index (Total Return). The Index aims to reflect the performance of a subset of fixed income securities within the Bloomberg US Credit Index (Parent Index). The Benchmark Index measures the performance of US Dollar denominated, fixed rate, investment grade, taxable corporate and government-related bonds that have a remaining maturity of over 1 and less than 10 years.