The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Index, a market-weighted index of U.K. Gilts denominated in Pound Sterling. The Fund employs a “passive management” – or indexing – investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund will invest in a portfolio of Gilts with greater than 1 year maturity that, so far as possible and practicable, consists of a representative sample of the component securities of the Index. The average duration of such securities is medium term, whilst the range for individual securities may be between 1 and 50 years.