OP-Private Fixed Income Strategy Fund

OP-Private Fixed Income Strategy is a bond fund, with the funds mainly invested in bond markets in Europe and the OECD countries. The fund is an AIF fund based on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.

The Fund's investments are mostly implemented through other funds, which ensures a high degree of diversification across fixed-income asset classes and issuers. In its investment operations, the Fund may also use derivative instruments in order to hedge against the risk of adverse market movements, to replace direct investments and to promote otherwise effective portfolio management. The portfolio manager will decide whether or not to hedge the Fund's non-euro investments against currency risks. The modified duration of the Fund, a measure of the price sensitivity of a bond to interest rate movements, typically fits in the range of 4.5-6.5, which means a negative value change in the fund as a percentage, if interest rates increase by one percentage point. If interest rates fall, the Fund’s value increases correspondingly. The fund is an active fixed-income asset management fund that seeks good yields with moderate risk in all market conditions. The Fund’s investments will be changed depending on market conditions. The investment decisions particularly emphasise weightings between fixed income asset classes (e.g. money-market instruments, government bonds, corporate bonds with higher and lower credit ratings, convertible bonds), and adjustment of the Fund’s interest rate risk. The The fund is a AIF fund, based on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, since it may invest in vehicles not available to funds under the UCITS Directive.

The Fund promotes environmental and social characteristics and, to ensure it, uses environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis and excludes certain investments. For more information about the ESG methods used, see the fund prospectus. The “do no significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the fund that take into account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this fund do not take into account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.

The Fund promotes environmental and social characteristics by integrating fund level as well as fund-look-through analysis and monitoring of sustainability factors into the investment process. The Fund does not emphasise or prioritise any single theme or sustainability factor, but addresses sustainability factors widely, avoiding investments in controversial activities and business with adverse environmental or social impacts and by emphasising funds that promote environmental and/or social characteristics or aim to invest sustainably.  

To the extent that the Fund engages in sustainable investment, in other words investing in financial activities that promote either environmental or social objectives, steps are taken to ensure that these sustainable investments do not cause significant harm to any sustainable investment objective. OP Asset Management uses several data sources from different service providers. 

The primary data sources are Bloomberg, Morningstar, MSCI ESG Research and S&P Trucost. Data from Bloomberg and Morningstar are mainly used for fund level analyses. MSCI ESG Research and S&P Trucost provide information on topics such as the sustainability risks of investee companies, share of business operations with adverse impacts, climate risks and opportunities, and how the operations of investee companies align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data from these service providers are used to the extent that the Fund invests in mutual funds managed by OP. The service providers use both data reported by the companies and estimates based on an assessment model developed by each service provider.

Regarding mutual funds managed by OP, the principal adverse impacts (PAI) on sustainability are regularly analysed by screening all investments for their PAI indicators. If the screening reveals investee companies with significant principal adverse impacts on sustainability in comparison to peers, and if the said PAI indicator is deemed essential for the investee company, the investee company will be monitored more closely and excluded, if deemed necessary. Also, a process to engage with the company can be started. For investments in funds other than OP funds, the extent to which PAI factors can be addressed depends on the availability of data, and our processes can develop as the availability and quality of data improve.

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