AI Balanced Pension Fund UK Corporate Accumulation Units
Fund overview
Objective: The Sub-Fund aims to grow your investment over the long term (5 years or more), through a combination of capital and income returns, and aims to outperform the Composite Benchmark Index by 1.25% (average annualised returns, before the deduction of charges and taxes, measured over rolling 5-year periods).
Core investment: The Sub-Fund invests in a broad range of global asset classes (including emerging markets) that may include shares, bonds issued by companies or governments (which can be investment grade and sub-investment grade), cash, and alternative strategies (such as commodities, real estate, hedge funds, alternative risk premia, and absolute return strategies). Exposure to alternative strategies will be gained through investment in other funds (including funds managed by Aviva Investors companies or the Investment Manager). Exposure to the other asset classes will be gained through investment in other funds (including funds managed by Aviva Investors companies or the Investment Manager) and also by investing directly in these assets, or through the use of derivatives. A maximum of 20% can be invested in sub-investment grade bonds (directly or through other funds). At least 50% of the Sub-Fund’s underlying assets (directly or on look through to the currencies of the underlying assets of other funds) will be held in US Dollars, Sterling or Euros, with a minimum of 25% in Sterling (including hedged back to Sterling). Derivatives may be used for investment purposes or to gain a particular market exposure which would otherwise be difficult or costly to achieve, or to manage the Sub-Fund’s cash flows in a cost effective manner. Derivatives may also be used to reduce risk, such as foreign currency risk within the Sub-Fund.
Fees and expenses
Risks
Collective investment risk:
Investing in any type of collective investment involves certain risks and limitations that you would not face if investing in markets directly, including the risk of delay in liquidating your investment.
Counterparty risk:
The Fund could lose money if an entity with which it does business becomes unwilling or is unable to meet its obligations to the Fund.
Currency risk:
Changes in currency exchange rates could reduce investment gains or increase investment losses. Exchange rates can change rapidly, significantly and unpredictably.
Derivatives risk:
Derivatives are instruments that can be complex and highly volatile, have some degree of unpredictability (especially in unusual market conditions), and can create losses significantly greater than the cost of the derivative itself.
Fixed Income Risk:
Investments in fixed interest securities are impacted by market and credit risk and are sensitive to changes in interest rates and market expectations of future inflation. Bonds that produce a higher level of income usually have a greater risk of default.
Hedging risk:
Any measures taken to offset specific risks will generate costs (which reduce performance), could work imperfectly or not at all, and if they do work will reduce opportunities for gain.
Illiquid securities risk:
Certain assets held in the Fund could, by nature, be hard to value or to sell at a desired time or at a price considered to be fair (especially in large quantities), and as a result their prices could be very volatile.
Interest rate risk — bonds:
When interest rates rise, bond values generally fall. This risk is generally greater for longer-term bonds and for bonds with higher credit quality.
Full information on risks applicable to the Fund are in the Prospectus and the Key Investor Information Document (KIID).
Management
Important information
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