Objective
The Share Class is a share class of a Fund which aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Fund’s assets, which reflects the return of the MSCI Europe Enhanced Value Index, the Fund’s benchmark index. The Share Class, via the Fund, invests in equity securities (e.g. shares) that, so far as possible and practicable, make up the benchmark index. The benchmark index aims to reflect the performance characteristics of a subset of equity securities within the MSCI Europe Index (“Parent Index”) which are selected for their good value. The constituents of the Benchmark Index are selected from the Parent Index based on three main equally weighted indicators of whether equity securities of a company provide good value: comparing the price of an equity to estimated future earnings of the company (based on a consensus of analysts’ views published by an industry recognised third party source); the price of an equity security relative to the book value (i.e. the value of shareholder equity on the balance sheet) of the company; and enterprise value (a measure of a company’s value, incorporating debt and equity) of a company relative to its operating cash flow (i.e. a measure of the amount of cash generated by a company’s normal business operations), save that enterprise value is not used as an indicator of good value for financial sector companies due to their capital structure. The Benchmark index incorporates constraints on sector weights to limit significant deviations from the Parent Index. The Parent Index is designed to provide representation of the equity markets in developed European countries. Companies are included in the Parent Index based on the proportion of their shares in issue that are available for purchase by international investors. The Fund uses optimising techniques to achieve a similar return to its benchmark index. The Fund may also engage in short-term secured lending of its investments to certain eligible third parties. This is used as a means of generating additional income and to off-set the costs of the Fund.
- Leverage -
- Currency hedgingNo
1.90p
(0.19%)