Benefits of investing in the Schroder Global Value Fund (Hedged)

The benefits of investing in the Fund include:

• Our research suggests that attractively priced companies with strong fundamentals outperform in the long-run. We exploit this long-term value premium through a highly diversified portfolio, typically invested in excess of 500 stocks. This high level of diversification minimises stock-specific risk without sacrificing overall conviction.

• Globally unconstrained, all cap portfolio which maximises the opportunity set by looking beyond the index to an investment universe of more than 15,000 stocks globally. Our bottom-up process does not impose any index-based sector or region constraints, enabling us to invest wherever we find the best opportunities. Moreover, by weighting stocks based on their fundamentals, and not their size, we are able to invest across the market capitalisation spectrum.

• Higher dividend yield. The Fund typically offers a higher dividend yield than the wider market.

• Dedicated and well-resourced QEP investment team with clear ownership and accountability for meeting  the investment objective of the Fund.

Investor Suitability

For investors who seek higher returns over the medium to long term and are prepared to accept high volatility in returns including negative returns over the short term.

About the Fund

The Schroder Global Value Fund (Hedged) is an index unconstrained global equity strategy investing in Value stocks from an exceptionally broad universe.

The impact of currency volatility arising from the underlying portfolio investments on Fund performance is minimised through currency hedges.

Some of the key features of the Fund include:

• Value style - attractively priced companies with strong fundamentals outperform in the long run.

• Embracing breadth - exploiting opportunities from more than 15,000 stocks globally.

• Bottom-up, index unconstrained investing - minimal sector, region or size constraints maximises the potential return and minimises dead money allocated to expensive stocks simply to satisfy inefficient index constraints.

• Focus on risk management and portfolio construction - a highly diversified portfolio minimises stock specific risk whilst retaining a high degree of conviction.

How we invest your money

The Fund may invest across a wide range of global assets including but not limited to equities, cash and cash equivalents, property trusts, exchange traded funds, futures, currency derivatives, options and listed equity market derivatives.

Asset classes and investment ranges

• International securities: 90-100%

• Cash and cash equivalents: 0-10%