State Street Equity 500 Index Fund

The fund uses a passive management strategy designed to track the performance of the S&P 500. The index is a well-known stock market index that includes common stocks of 500 companies from a number of sectors and that measures the performance of the large-cap sector of the U.S. equities market. The advisor generally intends to invest in all stocks comprising the S&P 500 in approximate proportion to their weightings in the index.