VIG BondMaxx Total Return Bond Investment Fund

The Fund invests exclusively in bond-type instruments. The Fund's investment universe focuses on developed market government bonds, developed market corporate bonds, local currency emerging market government bonds and hard currency emerging market government and corporate bonds. The primary source of return for the Fund is asset allocation across bond-type asset classes. The asset allocation is based on an "investment clock" approach that uses economic data analysis to determine the position of major regions within a growth cycle. This is complemented by the forecasting of expected movements in real interest rates and inflation expectations, which are also crucial for the allocation across bond markets. Portfolio managers use all these as the basis for making allocation decisions, overweighting the best performing bond asset class in any current economic cycle based on experience and expectations. In the investment process, portfolio managers optimise the interest rate and credit risk of the overall fund and of the exposures to individual bond markets in order to achieve the investment objective.