The company offers five classes of shares in the fund—Investor and Institutional "Euro" Shares, Investor and Institutional "U.S. Dollar" Shares, and Institutional "Euro Hedged" Shares. The fund seeks to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 ("S&P 500") Index (the "Index"), a widely recognised benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large U.S. companies. For the Institutional "Euro Hedged" Shares, the fund seeks to actively hedge exposure to the U.S. dollar.