Fund Descriptions
Stock Index Fund

Barclays Global Fund Advisors, a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors, N.A., acts as the investment advisor to the S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio in which the Homestead Stock Index Fund invests all of its assets. The Fund is designed to track the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index which tracks 500 large U.S. companies and is possibly the most widely used index of the U.S. stock market.

Performance

The tables below show the Fund’s average annual and year-to-date total returns for various holding periods compared to its benchmark index. An index is a collection of securities intended to represent some slice of the total securities market.

The bar chart shows the Fund's annual return in each of the last 10 years or for each year since the Fund's inception. This indicates how widely performance has varied year-by-year.

Stock Index Fund Historical Annual Total Returns

The total returns shown above represent past performance which does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate. An investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.  Performance information for the Stock Index Fund reflects its investment experience in S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio from October 15, 2007, to period end. Prior to October 15, 2007, the Stock Index Fund invested all of its assets in a different master portfolio.

Portfolio Composition

The following tables show how the Stock Index Fund is diversified and what its top holdings are.

Stock Index Fund Industry Diversification*
On 09/30/08 On 06/30/08  Consumer non-cyclical 23.3% 20.8% Financials 15.5% 13.8% Energy 13.2% 16.0% Industrials 11.3% 11.3% Technology 11.1% 11.4% Communications  10.1% 10.6% Consumer cyclical  7.8% 7.0% Utilities   3.4% 3.8% Basic materials   2.8% 3.2% Diversified   0.1% 0.1% Futures contracts   -0.1% 0.0% Short-term and other assets   1.6% 2.0% Total 100% 100%

 

Stock Index Fund Top Ten Holdings
% of Total Investment at 09/30/08 Exxon Mobil Corp. 3.5% General Electric Co. 2.2% Proctor & Gamble Co. (The) 1.8% Microsoft Corp. 1.8% Johnson & Johnson 1.7% JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.5% Chevron Corp. 1.5% AT&T Inc. 1.4% Bank of America Corp. 1.4% International Business Machines Corp. 1.4% Total 18.2%

Fund assets on 10/31/08

$42,094,000

Comparison of Growth

This line graph is a comparison of the change in value of a $10,000 investment in the Fund and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index.

Stock Index Fund Growth of $10,000

The Stock Index Fund’s average annual total returns are net of any fee waivers and reimbursements. Returns do not reflect taxes that the shareholder may pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Distributions

If this Fund has declared income or capital gains distributions in the current year, they will be listed in the table below.  See Track Earnings Distributions for the Fund's distribution schedule.

Stock Index Fund 2008 Earnings Distributions
Distribution Type Declaration Date $/Per Share Ordinary Income 06/30/08 $0.0054 Ordinary Income 09/15/08 $0.0514

Stock Index Fund 2007 Earnings Distributions
Distribution Type Declaration Date $/Per Share Ordinary Income 12/31/07 $0.1488

Share Price History

This table shows how widely the Fund’s share price has fluctuated over time.

Stock Index Fund Share Price History

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Year End N/A N/A $10.96 $9.84 $8.55 $6.55 $8.29 $9.03 $9.30 $10.57  $10.94 Year High N/A N/A $10.96 $11.41 $10.24 $8.73 $8.34 $9.14 $9.59 $10.76  $11.78  Year Low N/A N/A $10.04 $9.44 $7.20 $5.81 $5.97 $7.98 $8.50 $9.17  $10.26