Objective and policy changes

Name Description Fund Range Effective Date
BlackRock Global Equity Objective change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 28 May 2012

Old objective: Seeks to achieve long-term capital growth from investment primarily in a global portfolio of equity securities of successful companies domiciled in, or exercising a significant part of their economic activity in, developed markets.

New objective: Seeks to achieve long-term capital growth from investment primarily in a global portfolio of equity securities. The Fund's assets will generally be invested in equity securities of companies domiciled in, or exercising a significant part of their economic activity in, developed markets.

Henderson Higher Income Objective and policy change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 08 May 2012

Old Objective and policy: To achieve increasing distributions with the potential of long term capital growth. The fund will invest principally in the securities of UK companies.

New Objective and policy: To achieve an income in excess of that of the MSCI World Index with the potential for long-term capital growth. The fund will invest principally in global equities.

Please note: this fund is also changing it's name to Henderson Global Equity Income.
M&G Global Leaders Fund Objective change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 19 Apr 2012

Old objective: To maximise long term total return (the combination of income and growth of capital) by investing in a wide range of global equities that the fund manager considers to be leading their field.

New onjective: To maximise long term total return (the combination of income and growth of capital) by investing in a wide range of global equities that the fund manager considers to be, or have the potential to be, leading in their field in terms of improving shareholder value.

M&G Emerging Markets Bond Investment Policy change Skandia Investment Solutions 19 Apr 2012

Policy change: M&G are changing their definition of emerging markets within its investment policy, to enable investment in a wider range of emerging market countries.

Henderson Diversified Absolute Return Objective and policy change Skandia Investment Solutions 30 Mar 2012

Old objective: To achieve a positive absolute return in different market conditions from a portfolio of securities.

New objective: To achieve long term total return (capital growth and income) through a diverse portfolio of both UK and overseas investments.
Policy Change: The fund group is proposing to allow the fund to invest in derivatives for investment purposes.

Please note: this fund is also changing it's name and AMC.
Skandia Global Equity (Signature) Fund Policy change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 07 Mar 2012

Policy change: Skandia Global Funds are changing the investment policy in order to increase the use of derivatives from 10% of the Fund's net asset value up to 100%.

Please note: the investment objective will not be changing.
Skandia Deposit Fund Objective change Skandia Life and Pensions 09 Mar 2012

Old objective: To provide a return, before charges and taxation, equivalent to the Sterling three month money market rates. It invests in a portfolio of deposits held in high quality approved credit institutions and in approved securities.

New objective: To maximise current income consistent with preservation of principal and liquidity by the maintenance of a portfolio of high quality short-term money market instruments. These types of securities, instruments and obligations may be issued by both UK and non-UK issuers, but shall be denominated in sterling. The return and/or the value of the fund may fluctuate with changes in interest rates and there is a possibility of default of underlying assets and reducing capital values.

Please note: the TER will be increasing from 0.00% to 0.10% in line with the new Skandia Deposit Fund.
Martin Currie European Objective change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 01 Mar 2012

Old objective: To produce capital growth by investment in Europe, excluding the United Kingdom.

New objective: To produce an income in excess of the benchmark as well as the potential for capital appreciation.

Please note: This fund also changes name on 01/03/2012 to Martin Currie European Equity Income.
Skandia Emerging Market Debt (Signature) Fund Objective change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 30 Jan 2012

Old objective: To achieve preservation of capital through investment in a well-diversified portfolio of fixed and variable rate debt securities issued in Emerging Markets.

New objective: To achieve asset growth through investment in a well-diversified portfolio of fixed and variable rate debt securities issued in Emerging Markets.

Fulcrum Alternative Beta Plus Daily Fund Objective change Skandia Investment Solutions and Skandia Life and Pensions 27 Jan 2012

Old objective: To achieve a performance which exceeds the average performance of the hedge fund asset class, on a risk-adjusted basis, with a low long term correlation with traditional asset classes, such as equities and bonds.

New objective: To deliver returns from diversified liquid risk premia (alternative beta) and trading strategies (alpha) which have a low correlation to the traditional asset classes of equities, bonds and commodities.

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