The Fund’s investment objective is to deliver strong long-term risk adjusted returns to achieve both income and capital growth. The Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective by investing in securities of issuers that are incorporated, have their headquarters, or exercise a significant part (greater than 20%) of their economic activities in European markets/ countries (excluding the United Kingdom). The Fund is considered to be actively managed in reference to the Index by virtue of the fact that (i) it uses the Index for performance comparison purposes and (ii) the performance fees payable to the Investment Manager are calculated based on the performance of the Fund against the Index. The Index is considered to be consistent with the investment policy of the Fund. However, the Index is not used to define the portfolio composition of the Fund nor as a performance target and the Fund may be wholly invested in securities which are not constituents of the Index.