SPTI provides pure, market-like exposure to the intermediate-term US Treasury space. The Index includes investment grade Treasurys with a minimum of USD 300 million outstanding face value. It excludes state and local government bonds, TIPS, floating rate bonds, and zero-coupon bonds. The securities in the market-cap-weighted index are updated monthly. The Fund uses a sampling strategy, which purchases a subset of the securities in the Index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return characteristics of the Index. Prior to September 23, 2019 the fund traded under the ticker ITE and tracked the S&P Global 1200 consumer Discretionary Index. Prior to April 30, 2018, ITE tracked the Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate US Treasury Index, covering Treasurys with 1-10 years to maturity.