div style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Fund is an actively managed exchange traded fund (“ETF”) advised by Global X Management Company LLC (the “Adviser”) and sub-advised by Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited (the “Sub-Adviser”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, measured at the time of purchase, in equity securities (i) of issuers in emerging markets and/or (ii) that are tied economically to emerging markets, provided that, in either case, the issuers of any such securities are expected to be beneficiaries of the increasing consumption and growing purchasing power of individuals in the world’s emerging markets. Equity securities consist of common stock and related securities, such as preferred stock and depositary receipts. /spanspan style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of the collateral received)./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Adviser’s Great Consumer investment strategy focuses on investments that the Adviser believes will benefit from the collective direct and indirect economic effect resulting from increased consumption activities and growing purchasing power of individuals within the world’s emerging economies./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Adviser utilizes an active and bottom-up approach to portfolio construction, and does not apply a top-down country or sector allocation. The initial investment universe is derived primarily from quantitative analysis, using metrics like trading volume and market capitalization. After the initial investment universe has been screened, fundamental and qualitative analysis are applied for purposes of country and sector allocations and stock selection, all within a risk management framework. This /span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"risk management framework includes, but is not limited to, individual position size limits, country and sector weight limits relative to a broad-based benchmark, and a target number of holdings. As a result, the Fund’s portfolio reflects what the Adviser believes are the most compelling investment opportunities within the eligible universe and subject to the parameters of the risk management framework./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Adviser considers an emerging market country to include any country that is: (i) generally recognized to be an emerging market country by the international financial community; (ii) classified by the United Nations as a developing country; or (iii) included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The Adviser determines that an investment is tied economically to an emerging market if such investment satisfies one or more of the following conditions: (i) the issuer’s primary trading market is in an emerging market; (ii) the issuer is organized under the laws of, derives at least 50% of its revenue from, or has at least 50% of its assets in emerging markets; (iii) the investment is included in an index representative of emerging markets; and (iv) the investment is exposed to the economic risks and returns of emerging markets./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Adviser expects that emerging markets will experience rapid growth in domestic consumption driven by key trends such as population growth, increasing industrialization, income growth, wealth accumulation, increasing consumption among youths and the pursuit of a higher quality of life. The Fund will invest in issuers across a range of industry sectors that may benefit from increasing consumption in emerging markets. Such industries may include, but are not limited to, consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financial, information technology, healthcare and communication services./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Adviser buys and sells securities based on its investment thesis for each issuer, judgment about the prices of the securities and valuations, portfolio cash management, market structural opportunities and concerns, and other macro-economic factors. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its principal investment strategies. The Fund may invest in securities of any market capitalization. Although the Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in issuers located in a single country or in a limited number of countries, under normal market conditions, the Fund invests in at least three different countries. Under normal market conditions, the Fund intends to invest substantially all of its net assets in non-U.S. companies./span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"spanbr//span/divdiv style="text-align:justify"span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"The Fund may invest in China A-Shares, which are issued by companies incorporated in mainland China and traded on Chinese exchanges./span/div