The investment seeks to maximize long term total real return, consistent with the preservation of real capital. In pursuing its investment objective, the fund seeks, over the long term, to provide investment returns that exceed the level of U.S. inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. The fund invests, under normal circumstances, principally in inflation-indexed fixed income securities, including U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (“TIPS”) and other inflation-indexed securities issued by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities other than the U.S. Treasury.