Fund strategy

To achieve long term total return by investing at least two-thirds of the Funds assets in local Asian currency denominated Debt and Debt-Related Securities having a maturity of up to 5 years issued by governments, supranational institutions or government-related bodies that are domiciled in Asian countries. The Fund will invest less than 30% of its assets in Debt and Debt-Related Securities of the above types of issuers listed on PRC stock exchanges or traded on other PRC markets, including the China Interbank Bond Market, through available QFII and RQFII quotas or by any other available means. The Fund is actively managed. The Fund aims to outperform the Markit iBoxx Asia ex Japan (1-3 year) Index (USD) benchmark before charges. The benchmark is also used as a reference point for portfolio construction and as a basis for setting risk constraints. In order to achieve its objective, the Fund will take positions whose weightings diverge from the benchmark or invest in securities which are not included in the benchmark.