The investment objective of the Fund is to replicate the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Universal Select Screened Index (the “Index”), which provides investors the opportunity to gain to small-cap equity securities while integrating environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) metrics within a broad geographic equity index, while minimising as far as possible the tracking error between the Fund’s performance and that of the Index. In replicating the performance of the Index, the Fund promotes certain environmental, social and/or governance characteristics (as set out in the section titled “The Index”) and has been categorised as an Article 8 fund for the purpose of the SFDR.