Pendal Sustainable Australian Fixed Interest Fund

Significant features: The Fund is an actively managed portfolio of fixed interest securities. It is designed for investors who want income and diversification across a broad range of fixed interest securities and are prepared to accept some variability of returns. The Fund invests primarily in Australian dollar denominated investment grade fixed interest securities, including government securities, semi-government securities, supranational securities and credit securities and holds cash. Investments are selected based on a range of financial, sustainable and ethical characteristics The Fund aims to allocate capital to issuers and securities that align to our sustainability themes: climate stability, human basics and innovation for good (the Sustainability Objective). The Fund invests in securities issued by issuers that have passed Pendal’s sustainability assessment. Our sustainability assessment process is a qualitative assessment conducted at a security and issuer level. It seeks to identify issuers that, in our view, have strong sustainability credential for investment and aims to avoid issuers that we consider to have poor sustainability outcomes.

Fund Objective: The Fund aims to provide a return (before fees, costs and taxes) that exceeds the Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0+ Yr Index by 0.75% p.a. over rolling 3 year periods.