Strategy. In pursuing its investment objective, the Fund seeks, over the long term, to provide investment returns that exceed the level of U.S. inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, principally in: ? inflation-indexed fixed income securities, including U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) and other inflation-indexed securities issued by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities other than the U.S. Treasury. ? Other bonds and debt obligations of any kind, including nominal debt securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or by any U.S. government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds and notes, mortgage- or asset-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, mortgage pass-through securities, to be announced ("TBA") securities, … Show more… In pursuing its investment objective, the Fund seeks, over the long term, to provide investment returns that exceed the level of U.S. inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, principally in: ? inflation-indexed fixed income securities, including U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) and other inflation-indexed securities issued by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities other than the U.S. Treasury. ? Other bonds and debt obligations of any kind, including nominal debt securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or by any U.S. government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds and notes, mortgage- or asset-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, mortgage pass-through securities, to be announced ("TBA") securities, bank loans, collateralized loan obligations, commercial paper, and certificates of deposit. ? Repurchase agreements, which are agreements under which the Fund acquires a fixed income security from a commercial bank, broker or dealer and simultaneously agrees to resell such security to the seller at an agreed upon price and date (normally the next business day). ? Various exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative transactions for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including for purposes of enhancing returns. These derivative transactions include, but are not limited to, futures, options, swaps (including inflation swaps and total return swaps), foreign currency futures and forwards. In particular, the Fund may use interest rate swaps, inflation swaps, total return swaps, credit default swaps (including buying and selling credit default swaps on individual securities and/or baskets of securities), options (including options on credit default swaps) and futures contracts to a significant extent, although the amounts invested in these instruments may change from time to time. Other instruments may also be used to a significant extent from time to time. The Fund may invest in securities of any maturity, although the Fund normally expects to maintain a dollar-weighted average effective duration, as estimated by the Funds sub-adviser, within 3 years of that of its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation Notes Index. Effective duration seeks to measure the expected sensitivity of market price to changes in interest rates, taking into account the anticipated effects of structural complexities (for example, some bonds can be prepaid by the issuer). The Fund intends to limit its investments to U.S. dollar denominated securities and currently anticipates that it will generally only purchase debt securities rated, at the time of purchase, at least Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service or BBB- by S&P Global Ratings, or have an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or are of comparable quality if unrated (as determined by the sub-adviser). These securities are known as "investment grade securities." The Adviser has engaged Franklin Advisers, Inc. ("FT") to provide the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio pursuant to investment guidelines provided by the Adviser. Show less