Portfolio Turnover. The Fund
may pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are
held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. From inception, October 14, 2014, to the most recent fiscal year end, the Fund's portfolio turnover
rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI
Emerging Markets Horizon Index (the “Underlying Index”), which is designed to track the equity performance of the smallest 25% of countries by market capitalization in the universe of MSCI Emerging Markets Index countries, excluding
Brazil, China, India and Russia. As of June 30, 2015, the Underlying Index consisted of the following 16 emerging market countries: Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines,
Poland, Qatar, Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The Underlying Index may include large- and mid-capitalization companies. Components of the Underlying Index primarily include consumer staples, financials and telecommunications
companies. The components of the Underlying Index, and the degree to which these components represent certain industries, are likely to change over time.
BFA uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to
achieve the Fund’s investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to “beat” the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.
Indexing may eliminate the chance that the Fund will
substantially outperform the Underlying Index but also may reduce some of the risks of active management, such as poor security selection. Indexing seeks to achieve lower costs and better after-tax performance by keeping portfolio turnover low in
comparison to actively managed investment companies.
BFA
uses a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage the Fund. “Representative sampling” is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar
to that of the Underlying Index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics (based on factors such as market capitalization and industry weightings), fundamental characteristics (such as return
variability and yield) and liquidity measures similar to those of the Underlying Index. The Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Underlying Index.
The Fund generally will invest at least 90% of its assets in
the component securities of the Underlying Index and in investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the component securities of the Underlying Index (i.e., depositary
receipts representing securities of the Underlying Index) and may invest up to