The objective of the Fund is to seek to track the equity market performance of U.S. equities, which are categorised as value stocks using eight historical and forward-looking fundamental data points. The data points are broken down into value investment style characteristics and growth investment style characteristics and, in constructing the index, MSCI use them to identify which stocks exhibit stronger value characteristics (i.e., are priced at a low level relative to what is considered to be their fundamental value). The value investment style characteristics are (i) book value to price ratio, (ii) 12 month forward earnings to price ratio and (iii) dividend yield. The growth investment style characteristics are (i) long-term forward earnings per share (EPS) growth rate, (ii) short-term forward EPS growth rate, (iii) current Internal Growth Rate, (iv) long-term historical EPS growth trend and (v) long-term historical sales per share (SPS) growth trend.