The Fund uses a passive investment strategy designed to track the total return performance (before fees and expenses) of the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index. The Index’s objective is to provide consistent long-term, risk adjusted outperformance of the broad U.S. equity markets with the goal of capturing more upside in rising equity markets and limiting the downside -including up to 100% cash allocation- during market downturns. The SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index consists of common stock of companies, and units of beneficial ownership in real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), in the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM and Dow Jones U.S. Mid-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM that have been selected for inclusion in the Index by a systematic, rules-based process that uses Guggenheim Investments’ Required Business Performance® (RBP®) Probability scores (as defined below) and other rules based signals as defined by the Index methodology. S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or an affiliate (as index calculation agent) is responsible for the daily calculation and operations of the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index. The RBP® Probability scores are derived from a quantitative process of Guggenheim Investments. The RBP® Probability scores are intended to measure the future business performance required of a company to support its stock price and to indicate the probability that the company will actually achieve that performance. Using a rules-based methodology, the Index is designed to participate in rising markets while attempting to preserve capital during market declines. The Index aims to allocate its holdings among the stocks in the three Guggenheim SMID-Cap Directional Series Indexes (the “SMID-Cap Directional Series Indexes”) - the Guggenheim RBP® SMID-Cap Market IndexSM (with average economic and market sensitivity), the Guggenheim RBP® SMID-Cap Aggressive IndexSM (with above average economic and market sensitivity) and the Guggenheim RBP® SMID-Cap Defensive IndexSM (with below average economic and market sensitivity) - and cash. The allocations are based on a moving average crossover system of analysis. The moving average crossover system used in the Index’s methodology uses three primary signals: economic condition, consumer sentiment and market momentum. The components of each of the SMID-Cap Directional Series Indexes are derived from the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM and the Dow Jones U.S. Mid-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM. As of December 31, 2021, the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index was composed of 100 securities. The number of securities comprising the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index is subject to change from time to time. A description of the Index’s methodology and performance is available directly from Guggenheim Investments (http://www.rbpinstitute.com).The Fund will invest in securities representing the holdings of the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index, and cash or cash equivalents to the extent the Index is allocated to cash. The Fund may be invested in any combination of securities and cash or cash equivalents, as defined by the Index methodology weights. In accordance with the Index methodology, the Index may be 100% allocated to cash. In such circumstances, the Fund will also hold 100% of its assets in cash or cash equivalents. The cash equivalents consist of shares of money market mutual funds and short-term funds, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances, U.S. Government securities and repurchase agreements. To the extent that the Fund invests in money market mutual funds or short-term funds for cash positions, there will be some duplication of expenses because the Fund pays its pro-rata portion of such funds' advisory fees and operational fees.The Fund will generally invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to the weightings in the Index. Under various circumstances where it may not be possible or practicable (that is, in instances when a security in the Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or due to legal restrictions (for instance tax or other diversification requirements that apply to the Fund but not the Index or the Investment Manager is restricted from purchasing securities of a particular company on behalf of the Fund)) to purchase all of the securities in the Index or amounts of such securities in proportion to their weighting in the Index, the Investment Manager will utilize a sampling methodology, or will invest a portion of the assets in total return swaps or similar derivatives to obtain the desired exposure. Sampling means that quantitative analysis is used to select securities that represent a sample of the securities in the Index with a similar investment profile as the Index in terms of key risk factors, performance attributes and other characteristics. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes, in securities that comprise the Index. The Index is rebalanced at least quarterly or more frequently when economic conditions signal changes. In addition, the Index is reviewed on an ongoing basis to account for corporate actions such as mergers or de-listings. The Investment Manager may sell securities that are represented in the Index, or purchase securities that are not yet represented in the Index, in anticipation of their removal from or addition to the Index. Small-capitalization and medium-capitalization companies are those that constitute the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM and the Dow Jones U.S. Mid-Cap Total Stock Market IndexSM, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, market capitalizations of companies included in the SMID-Cap Directional Allocation Index ranged from approximately $715 million to $20.7billion.The Fund also may invest up to 20% of its net assets in common stocks and REITs not included in the Index, but which the Investment Manager believes will help the Fund track the Index, as well as in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), futures, put and call options, interest rate, index and total return swap contracts, cash and cash equivalents. Such investments are intended to improve liquidity, reduce transaction costs and help the Fund stay fully invested, or obtain the desired exposure to securities comprising the Index, and are not intended to be used for hedging or speculative investment purposes. The Investment Manager does not invest Fund assets based on its opinion of a security, instrument or company.The short-term funds in which the Fund will invest include short-term investment companies advised by the Investment Manager or an affiliate of the Investment Manager, or short-term ETFs, that invest in short-term fixed-income or floating rate securities. Investments by the Fund in these investment companies significantly increase the Fund’s exposure to the following asset categories: (i) a broad range of high yield, high risk debt securities rated below the top four long-term rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (also known as “junk bonds”) or, if unrated, determined by the Investment Manager, to be of comparable quality; (ii) collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), other asset-backed securities and similarly structured debt investments; and (iii) other short-term fixed or floating rate debt securities. Such investments expose the Fund to the risks of these asset categories—and decreases in the value of these investments may cause the Fund to deviate from its investment objective.The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or sector to approximately the same extent that the Index is so concentrated. The Fund is non-diversified and, as a result, may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a single issuer than that of a diversified fund. The Board may change the Fund’s investment objective, investment strategy, Index and other policies without shareholder notice or approval, except as otherwise indicated.Due to its investment strategies, the turnover rate of the Fund should generally be similar to the turnover rate of the Index. As a result, the Fund may buy and sell securities frequently. This may result in higher transaction costs and additional capital gains liabilities than for a fund with a buy and hold strategy. Higher transaction costs may negatively impact the Fund’s performance.Under adverse, unstable or abnormal market conditions, the Fund could invest some or all of its assets in cash, fixed-income instruments, government bonds, money market instruments, repurchase agreements or securities of other investment companies. The Fund may be unable to pursue or achieve its investment objective during that time and temporary investments could reduce the benefit from any upswing in the market.
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