Investment involves risks, including the loss of principal. The price of units or shares of the Funds may go up as well as down. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The value of the Funds can be extremely volatile and could go down substantially within a short period of time. You should read the Fund’s Placing Memorandum or Explanatory Memorandum and Product Key Facts Statement for details, including risk factors. Investors should not base investment decisions on this marketing material alone. Please note:
•The Fund aims to maximise income with investment consistent with the principles of ESG and a focus in the Asia region.
•The Fund is subject to general fixed income instruments risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, volatility and liquidity risk, credit rating risk and downgrade risk, credit rating agency risk, valuation risk, and sovereign debt risk. Below investment grade or unrated fixed income instruments are subject to higher credit risk, lower liquidity, higher volatility and greater risk of loss.
•The Fund is subject to ESG investment risks, such as the use of ESG criteria may affect the Fund’s performance, concentration in companies with greater ESG focus will cause the Fund be more volatile than a more diversified portfolio, securities held by the Fund may no longer meet the ESG criteria after investments, ESG criteria may be wrongly applied, incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable of ESG data and lack of standardised ESG investment taxonomy may affect the Fund’s ability to invest.
•The Fund may be concentrated in the Asian / Emerging / Mainland China markets, which involves concentration risk, greater liquidity, currency, political, regulatory risks.
•The Fund may invest in derivatives for hedging purposes and may lead to a high risk of significant loss.
•The Fund is subject to currency exchange risk. RMB is not freely convertible and is subject to exchange controls and restrictions. Any depreciation of RMB could adversely affect the value of the Fund.
•The Fund may invest in fixed income instruments with loss-absorption features. Investments in such instruments are subject to higher liquidity, valuation and sector concentration risk.
•The Fund may invest in other funds and be subject to the risks associated with the underlying funds.
•Payment of dividends out of capital and/or effectively out of capital amounts to a return or withdrawal of part of an investor’s original investment or from any capital gains attributable to those original investments. Any such distributions may result in an immediate reduction of the NAV per Share of the Fund.