The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Index. In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the Fund aims to provide a return (comprising both income and capital appreciation) which, before application of fees and expenses, is similar to the return of the Index. The Fund employs a “passive management” – or indexing – investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, designed to track the performance of the Index. The Index is a widely recognised benchmark designed to reflect the total universe of publically-traded, fixed-coupon, Eurodenominated investment grade corporate bonds with maturities greater than one year and which have a minimum issue size of €300 million.