Strategy. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund generally uses a representative sampling strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning it generally will invest in a sample of the securities in the Index whose risk, return, and other characteristics resemble the risk, return, and other characteristics of the Index as a whole. WisdomTree, Inc. (WisdomTree), the index provider and the parent company of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. (WisdomTree Asset Management or the Adviser), designed the Index to capture the performance of selected issuers in the short-term U.S. investment grade corporate bond market that are deemed to have favorable fundamental and income characteristics. The Index employs a multi-step process, … Show more… The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index. The Fund generally uses a representative sampling strategy to achieve its investment objective, meaning it generally will invest in a sample of the securities in the Index whose risk, return, and other characteristics resemble the risk, return, and other characteristics of the Index as a whole. WisdomTree, Inc. (WisdomTree), the index provider and the parent company of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. (WisdomTree Asset Management or the Adviser), designed the Index to capture the performance of selected issuers in the short-term U.S. investment grade corporate bond market that are deemed to have favorable fundamental and income characteristics. The Index employs a multi-step process, which screens based on fundamentals to identify bonds with favorable characteristics and then tilts to those which offer favorable income characteristics. The goal is to improve the risk-adjusted performance of traditional market capitalization-weighted approaches of corporate bond indices. The Index is comprised of corporate bonds of public issuers domiciled in the United States. To be eligible for inclusion in the Index, bonds must meet the following criteria: (i) pay fixed-rate coupons; (ii) have at least $350 million in par amount outstanding; (iii) have a remaining maturity of at least one year and at most five years; and (iv) rated investment grade (at least BBB- or Baa3) by Standard & Poors or Moodys. The final rating is determined by the average rating from the two rating agencies. All bonds are denominated in U.S. dollars. The Index utilizes a screen and tilt rules-based approach to isolate bonds that have favorable fundamentals and tilts to those bonds with favorable income and valuation characteristics. Once the Index universe is defined from the eligibility criteria, individual bonds are assigned a factor score based on rules-based fundamental metrics distinguishing cash flow, profitability and leverage. Bonds are ranked within one of three sectors ( i.e. , industrial, financial, or utility) based on their factor scores and then screened so that the bonds receiving the lowest 20% of factor scores in each sector are removed from the Index. Each remaining bond is then assigned an income tilt score reflecting, among other factors, the bond's probability of default and duration relative to the other remaining bonds in its sector and the yield spread between the bond and U.S. Treasuries. Income tilt scores are then used to determine a bonds weight in the Index, with bonds receiving higher income tilt scores being more heavily weighted. Issuer exposure is capped at 5%, with excess exposure distributed to the remaining bonds on a pro-rata basis. The Index is rebalanced quarterly. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in investments not included in the Index, including repurchase agreements, and/or derivatives. Derivative investments may include interest rate futures, swaps, and forward contracts. The Funds use of derivatives will be underpinned by investments in cash or other liquid assets. To the extent the Index is concentrated in the securities of companies assigned to a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will seek to concentrate its investments ( i.e. , invest more than 25% of its assets) in such industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as the Index. Show less