The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of short- and intermediate-term investment-grade bonds and notes. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in investment-grade fixed income securities including sovereign, corporate, asset-backed, money market securities, bank obligations, foreign securities (including securities of issuers in emerging markets and non-U.S. dollar-denominated securities), and U.S. Government securities. The Fund only invests in investment-grade debt obligations, rated at the time of purchase by at least one major rating agency or, if unrated, determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. After purchase, a debt obligation may cease to be rated or may have its rating downgraded below investment grade. In such cases, the Adviser will consider whether to continue to hold the debt obligation. The Fund may hold debt obligations of any credit rating or no rating. The dollar-weighted average portfolio effective maturity of the Fund is expected to be more than one year but less than three years during normal market conditions. The Fund may invest in debt obligations of all maturities.

The Fund may also engage in futures, forwards and options transactions, both to seek to increase return and/or to seek to hedge, or protect, its exposure to, for example, interest rate movements, movements in the commodities or securities markets and currency value fluctuations. In addition, the Fund may invest in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), municipal securities, and inflation-protected securities such as Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (“TIPS”) and similar bonds issued by governments outside of the United States.