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Foord International Fund

For conservative, absolute-return investors

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INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The fund aims to achieve meaningful inflation-beating US$ returns over rolling five-year periods from a conservatively managed portfolio of global investments reflecting Foord's prevailing best investment view. The fund may invest into commodity-linked ETFs and instruments to hedge against inflation.

FOR INVESTORS

  • With a moderate to high risk profile
  • Seeking preservation of capital and safe investment growth.

REGISTERED COUNTRIES

Belgium, France, Japan, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Performance

Returns
YearFund Return %MSCI World Return %US Inflation %
1997 (from 10/Mar)9.113.11.3
199813.924.31.6
1999-11.724.92.7
200023.7-13.23.4
2001-4.0-16.81.6
20023.2-19.92.5
200321.133.12.0
200413.014.73.3
20055.89.53.3
200618.420.12.5
200712.79.04.1
2008-18.4-40.70.0
200918.830.02.8
201010.211.81.4
2011-1.1-5.53.0
201211.215.81.8
201315.126.71.5
2014-1.94.90.7
20151.9-0.90.7
20161.27.52.2
201715.522.42.0
2018-9.6-8.71.9
201917.027.72.3
20206.815.91.3
20212.821.87.0
20221.6-18.16.4
2023-4.223.83.6
2024-2.018.72.9
2025 (to 30/Apr)9.0-0.90.8

The use of MSCI benchmark is for performance comparison only

Characteristics
Objective

To achieve meaningful inflation-beating US dollar returns over a full investment cycle.

Time horizon

Longer than five years.

Inception date

2 April 2013

Initial investment amount

US$10,000 or equivalent

Subsequent subscription amount

US$1,000 or equivalent

Significant restrictions

Complies with UCITS regulation. In addition, the Fund cannot enter into total return swaps, securities lending transactions, repurchase transactions or reverse repurchase transactions or any other securities financing transactions. Only listed derivatives can be used for efficient portfolio management.

Income distributions

A roll-up fund with income being reinvested in the portfolio.

Income characteristics

Zero income yield as it does not distribute its income.

Portfolio orientation

Flexible asset allocation across different asset classes - global equities, listed commodity securities, interest-bearing securities, cash and money market instruments - to achieve its objective.

The fund is actively managed without any reference to a benchmark.

The Manager actively decides the composition of its portfolio including regional allocation, sector views and overall level of exposure to the market in order to take advantage of investment opportunities.

 

Risk considerations

The fund is priced in US dollars. Among others, investment value is subject to foreign exchange risk, market risk and interest rate risk, and credit risk of the issuers.

Risk of loss

Moderate to high in periods shorter than five years. Subject to market volatility, lower in longer term.

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Fees

Management Fee (Percentage of the applicable Net Asset Value per share)
Class B: 1.00% (Institutional investors)
Class R: 1.00% (Retail investors)
 

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