The fund seeks to provide consistent long-term capital appreciation and reduce risk by tactically hedging up to 75% of its portfolio of equity securities listed on international exchanges outside the US and Canada. Its proprietary methodology emphasizes factors that highlight strong performing stocks such as fundamental change, valuation, growth and quality. Hedging is intended to enable the fund to take advantage of the expected value (or alpha) associated with the fund’s individual portfolio investments but with reduced risk that is associated with the overall market (or beta). The fund may use derivatives in order to further meet its investment objectives, and may also engage in short selling or other securities lending transactions to generate additional income. Portfolio holdings are reconstituted and rebalanced monthly.