The fund normally invests at least 80% of the fund's assets in securities included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and in depositary receipts representing securities included in the index. The adviser uses statistical sampling techniques based on such factors as capitalization, industry exposures, dividend yield, price/earnings (P/E) ratio, price/book (P/B) ratio, earnings growth, country weightings, and the effect of foreign taxes to attempt to replicate the returns of the index.