Benchmark Investments

The primary investment objective of the Scheme is seeking to generate long term capital appreciation and provide long term growth opportunities by investing in equity and equity relatedsecurities of companies domiciled in India whose pre-dominant economic activity is in the: a) discovery, development, production, or distribution of natural resources, viz., energy, mining etc; (b) alternative energy and energy technology sectors, with emphasis given to renewable energy, automotive and on-site power generation, energy storage and enabling energy technologies.The Scheme will also invest a certain portion of its corpus in the equity and equity related securitiesof companies domiciled overseas, which are principally engaged in the discovery, development, production or distribution of natural resources and alternative energy and/or the units/ shares of BlackRock Global Funds - Sustainable Energy Fund, BlackRock Global Funds - World Energy Fund and similar other overseas mutual fund schemes. The secondary objective is to generate consistent returns by investing in debt and money market securities.