The fund provides a dividend growth-focused take on the US equity market, variably hedged for CAD investors. With the goal of increasing coverage of firms likely to be larger players in the dividend market, the fund combines growth (forward-looking earnings estimates) with quality factors (three-year historical averages return-on-assets and return-on-equity) in its selection process. At each annual reconstitution, stocks projected to pay more dividends are weighted more heavily, with individual security weights capped at 5%. Unlike any other currency-hedged funds, the fund mitigates currency risk using variable hedging strategy that ranges between 0 to 100%, adjusted monthly based on three quantitative signals: momentum, interest rate differentials and value