Venn Smart Alpha US SMID Index

Universe of Index Components

Equity securities or Substitutes of companies from the Reference Market.

Index Components and their selection

1. Selection of Portfolio Managers
The eligible portfolio managers selection is deemed to include 40 to 50 managers investing in the Reference Market. The selection is determined annually in January on the last Business Day (the "Managers Selection Day"). Eligible portfolio managers must meet the following criteria. They:
a) Follow a fundamental investment philosophy,
b) Manage a concentrated portfolio: top ten portfolio positions > 30%,
c) Manage a portfolio value> USD 100 million.
The selection of portfolio managers remains the same until the next Managers Selection Day unless any of the portfolio managers no longer meets the criteria or due to any event that substantially changes the way a portfolio is managed. The definition of a substantial change is at the discretion of the Index Allocator.
2. Selection of Securities
The eligible securities are determined quarterly by aggregating all the positions held in the portfolios of the selected managers on the basis of the latest published inventories.
Securities of the universe must fulfil the following criteria at the Rebalancing Determination Date to be eligible for the index component selection. The following process is applied:
a) Eligible securities are ranked by decreasing weightings of positions held by the selection of portfolio managers;
b) eligible securities must be listed on an exchange;
c) market capitalization of eligible securities must be between 500$ million and 50$ billion;
d) singletons defined as only one security line selected by a single manager out of the Selection of Portfolio Managers are not eligible;
e) Securities whose aggregated weighting is composed for more than two-thirds of a single portfolio manager’s weight are normalised. The normalisation is done by allocating, to this specific single portfolio manager, the average weight calculated from the remaining portfolio managers holding the specific security;
f) if multiple lines of a stock qualify for the Index, the less liquid is removed;
g) the Index Component Selection is then composed of the 40 top remaining eligible securities.
With each selection of securities and a following rebalancing, an equal weight of the Index Components is applied.