Industry description
The investment seeks total return exceeding the rate of inflation.
Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest a significant portion of its assets in investment grade fixed income securities, including inflation-indexed bonds of varying maturities issued by the U.S. Treasury, other U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities. It seeks to produce a return similar to that of the Bloomberg 1-5 Year U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) Index, which is the fund's benchmark index.