Under typical market conditions, the fund allocates a minimum of 80% of its net assets, supplemented by any funds leveraged for investment purposes, to companies with small market capitalizations. Its investment approach predominantly focuses on equity holdings, with common stock being the primary class of security in this category. The fund's management defines a small-capitalization issuer as any entity whose market value, at the point of initial investment, does not exceed that of the largest company featured in the Russell 2000® Index.
