The Fund pursues its investment objective by allocating the Fund’s assets among different asset managers that collectively use various investment styles and strategies, including, for example, fundamental (bottom-up), macroeconomic (top-down), and/or quantitative methods or models, across different markets. The Fund’s investment manager, Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (Columbia Management or the Investment Manager), and investment subadvisers (Subadvisers) each provide day-to-day portfolio management for a portion of the Fund’s assets, or sleeve of the Fund. The Investment Manager and the Subadvisers employ a variety of investment strategies, including alternative strategies, that involve techniques and practices that are designed to seek capital appreciation through participation in the broad equity and other markets while hedging overall market exposure relative to traditional long-only equity strategies, which may from time to time be coupled with strategies seeking traditional long-only equity exposure. Generally, the Fund seeks to provide higher risk-adjusted returns with lower volatility compared to equity markets.