Investment Approach

The Fund aims to provide a return on your investment through a combination of capital growth and income, whilst maintaining a moderate risk profile (i.e. an evaluation of risks associated with the portfolio). The risk profile of the Fund’s portfolio is expected to be 6-10% and is measured, for this purpose, as the volatility (i.e. the degree of fluctuation) of the Fund’s returns converted into an annual rate, over a five year period. The Fund has a flexible approach to asset allocation and will seek to gain exposure across a variety of asset classes. In order to achieve its objective the Fund will invest globally in equity securities (e.g. shares), equity-related securities, fixed income (FI) securities (e.g. bonds), FI-related securities, money market instruments (MMIs) (e.g. debt instruments with short-term maturities), asset backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) (i.e. financial securities backed by cash flows from debt), deposits, cash and other funds (including exchange traded funds). The FI securities and MMIs may be issued by governments, government agencies, companies and supranationals (e.g. the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) globally and may include investments with a relatively low credit rating or which are unrated. The Investment Manager (IM) will use a combination of systematic (i.e. rule based) models and discretionary investment techniques. The IM seeks to identify investment opportunities across a global investment universe according to the macroeconomic categories of 'growth' (focusing on assets with attractive exposure to economic growth), ‘inflation’ (focusing on FI securities with attractive real rates of return), ‘policy’ (focusing on countries with monetary policy regimes with a tendency to take steps to stimulate economic growth) and ‘pricing’ (focusing on attractively priced assets globally).