The Fund, under normal market conditions, intends to provide total return by investing at least 80% of its net assets at the time of purchase (plus any amounts borrowed for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities, including bonds, debt securities, bank loans and other similar U.S. dollar-denominated instruments issued by various U.S. public- or private-sector entities, or by non-U.S. corporations or U.S. affiliates of non-U.S. corporations, including those in emerging markets. The Fund may invest a significant portion or all of its assets in securitized bond investments also referred to as “structured product securities” or “structured products.” Securitized bond investments include interests in pools of secured loans backed by commercial real estate, residential real estate, commercial or consumer loans, and securitizations such as collateralized debt obligations, collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) (including commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”), residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”), and collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMOs”)), asset-backed securities (“ABS”), and other similar securities and related instruments at the discretion of Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. (the “Adviser”). The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in below-investment grade securities, including those referred to as “junk bonds” (or the unrated equivalent) at the time of purchase.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will maintain an average portfolio duration of plus or minus 20% of the duration of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is a broad-based index that represents the investment grade, U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-rate taxable bond market. Duration of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index was 5.95 years as of its last reconstitution date of January 31, 2026. Duration is an approximate measure of a bond’s price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. For instance, a duration of “three” means that a security’s or portfolio’s price would be expected to decrease by approximately 3% with a 1% increase in interest rates (assuming a parallel shift in the yield curve).

When selecting securities for investment, the Adviser employs a bottom-up, research-based approach in seeking to identify opportunities. In buying and selling securities for the Fund, the Adviser performs a risk/reward analysis that includes an evaluation of credit risk, interest rate risk, prepayment risk, and the legal and technical structure of the security. The Adviser will attempt to take advantage of inefficiencies that it believes exist in the fixed-income markets, such as the diversity of participants working with different objectives and repeated

temporary supply-demand imbalances. The Adviser seeks to invest in securities that the Adviser expects to offer attractive prospects for current income and/or capital appreciation in relation to the risk borne.