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Hedging Risk – BNDD

The Fund does not seek to mitigate credit risk, non-curve interest rate risk, or other factors influencing the price of U.S. government bonds, which factors may have a greater impact on the bonds’ returns than the U.S. interest rate curve or deflation. There is no guarantee that the Fund’s investments will eliminate or mitigate curve risk, deflation risk on long positions in U.S. government bonds. In addition, when the forward U.S. interest rate curve steepens, the Fund’s investments will generally underperform a portfolio comprised solely of the U.S. government bonds. In a steepening curve environment, the Fund’s hedging strategy could result in disproportionately larger losses in the Fund’s options as compared to gains or losses in the U.S. government bond positions attributable to interest rate changes.

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