MoneyAM Fund Centre

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Fund Objective

The Fund aims to increase the value of your investment over the long term. It looks to outperform the MSCI ACWI Index over rolling 3-year periods, after the deduction of charges. The Fund is actively managed, and invests at least 75% of its assets in a concentrated portfolio of shares of companies worldwide. The Fund selects companies in which the fund manager has a high conviction that the current share price does not reflect the prospects for that business. These companies may be chosen from any economic sector or geographic region, with significant sector and share weightings taken at the fund manager’s discretion. There is no restriction on company size, however, investment tends to focus on larger companies, such as those included in the MSCI ACWI Index. The MSCI ACWI Index is regarded as providing an appropriate representation of the share performance of large and medium-sized companies worldwide, currently with more than 2,700 companies included. It provides a suitable target benchmark against which Fund performance will be measured and evaluated over time. The Fund typically invests in fewer than 50 companies, which may include the shares of some companies not within the Index. The Fund may also invest in other assets such as cash and deposits, and hold other funds (including funds managed by Columbia Threadneedle companies), when deemed appropriate.

Fund Managers

David Dudding

David Dudding is a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments where he is the lead portfolio manager of the Global Focus strategy and co-manager of the European Select strategy. He joined the company as an equity research analyst in 1999, moving on to manage the European Smaller Companies strategy for 10 years until December 2012. David previously worked for John Swire and Sons in Hong Kong and for Investors Chronicle as a financial journalist.He holds a Modern History degree and a European Politics Masters degree from Oxford University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK.