DELISTED - The Fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the Underlying Index and in American Depositary Receipts("ADRs") based on the securities in the Underlying Index. The Fund’s 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders before it can be changed. The Underlying Index is comprised of small capitalization companies reported on Form 13F by hedge funds and other institutional investors, as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the Underlying Index ("Index Provider"). Small-capitalization companies are defined as companies whose market capitalization is less than $3 billion as of the date of its inclusion in the Underlying Index. Hedge funds are defined as privately offered pooled investment vehicles. Using a proprietary methodology developed by the Index Provider, the Index Provider determines the pool of hedge funds and other institutional investors whose Form 13F holdings may be included in the Underlying Index. Hedge funds are selected from a pool of thousands of privately offered pooled investment vehicles based on the size of their reported equity holdings and the efficacy of replicating their publicly disclosed positions. Institutional investors are selected based on the qualitative factor of whether they have a strong management team with a track record of creating shareholder value. Additional filters are applied to exclude the holdings of hedge funds and institutional investors that report less than $500 million in holdings on the Form 13F or that have high turnover rates for equity holdings, as defined by the Index Provider. Turnover is a measure of the hedge funds and other institutional investors' trading activity or holdings that have been "turned over" or replaced with other holdings.Once the pool of investors has been determined, the Index Provider utilizes Form 13F filings to compile 100 stocks that represent the top small cap positions from these investors. The stocks must meet minimum liquidity thresholds to be included in the Underlying Index. Stocks in the Underlying Index are equal weighted and rebalanced quarterly following the Form 13F filing timeline. As of January 1, 2015, the Underlying Index had 100 constituents ranging in market capitalization from $180 million to $9 billion. The Fund’s investment objective and Underlying Index may be changed without shareholder approval. The Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is an organization that is independent of the Fund and Global X Management Company LLC, the investment adviser for the Fund (“Adviser”). The Index Provider determines the relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. The Adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. Unlike many investment companies, the Fund does not try to outperform the Underlying Index and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued. The Fund generally will use a replication strategy. A replication strategy is an indexing strategy that involves investing in the securities of the Underlying Index in approximately the same proportions as in the Underlying Index. However, the Fund may utilize a representative sampling strategy with respect to the Underlying Index when a replication strategy might be detrimental or disadvantageous to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of equity securities to replicate the Underlying Index, in instances in which a security in the Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid, or as a result of legal restrictions or limitations (such as tax diversification requirements) that apply to the Fund but not the Underlying Index. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Fund’s performance and that of the Underlying Index, before fees and expenses, will exceed 95%. A correlation percentage of 100% would indicate perfect correlation. If the Fund uses a replication strategy, it can be expected to have greater correlation to the Underlying Index than if it uses a representative sampling strategy. The Fund concentrates its investments (i.e., holds 25% or more of its total assets) in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that the Underlying Index is concentrated. As of December 31, 2014, the Underlying Index was concentrated in the Consumer Discretionary Sector.
