The fund provides broad exposure to Canadian bonds with maturities of between one to five years. The fund tracks an index of short-term, fixed-rate, CAD-denominated securities that are rated investment grade. The portfolio may include both government and corporate bonds. However, to ensure equal weighting between public and private sectors, the fund caps government bonds to 50% on a pro-rata basis, with any excess weight redistributed to corporate issuers in the index. The fund excludes securitized/covered bonds and securities by supranational issuers. The market value-weighted index is reconstituted and rebalanced monthly.