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RobecoSAM SDG High Yield Bonds ZH GBP

Benefiting from a long-term quality approach pays off in high yield bonds

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Share classes

Share classes

Every share class of a product invests in the same portfolio of securities and has the same investment objectives and policies. However, their parameters might deviate. For instance and amongst others, their distribution type, currency exposure or fees and expenses might differ. The most common share classes at Robeco are:
a) D/DH shares, which are regular shares and available for all Investors;
b) I/IH shares, for institutional investors as defined from time to time by the Luxembourg supervisory authority.
For more information on share classes please go to the prospectus.

ZH-GBP

DH-EUR

DH-SEK

EH-SEK

FH-EUR

FH-USD

IE-EUR

IEH-GBP

IEH-USD

IH-EUR

IH-GBP

IH-USD

Class and codes

Asset class:

Bonds

ISIN:

LU2539433271

Bloomberg:

ROBHYDS LX

Index

Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Corporate Index (hedged into GBP)

Sustainability-related information

Sustainability-related information

Under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, products can be labelled as either Article 6, 8 or 9 fund.

Article 6 - The fund is not in scope of enhanced sustainability disclosures compared to Article 8 and 9.
Article 8 - The fund does not have a sustainable investment objective but promotes environmental or social characteristics and is subject to enhanced sustainability disclosures.
Article 9 - The fund has a sustainable investment objective and is subject to enhanced sustainability disclosures.

Regardless of Article 8 or 9, the companies in which investments are made must follow good governance practices, and sustainable investments must not do any significant harm.

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Key points

  • Uses a proprietary SDG measurement framework to select companies that contribute positively to the SDGs, excludes those that do the opposite.
  • Managed with a conservative approach by an experienced team
  • Disciplined and repeatable investment process

About this fund

RobecoSAM SDG High Yield Bonds is an actively managed fund that invests in global corporate bonds. The selection of these bonds is based on fundamental analysis.The fund's objective is to provide long term capital growth. The funds invests in high yield corporate bonds with a sub-investment grade rating, with a structural bias to the higher rated part in high yield. The portfolio is built on the basis of the eligible investment universe and the relevant SDGs using an internally developed framework about which more information can be obtained via the website www.robeco.com/si.

Key facts

Per 30-04-2023

Total size of fund

£ 279,887,531

Size of share class

£ 111,717

Inception date fund

18-10-2022

Dividend paying

No

The value of the investments may fluctuate. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Fund manager

Roeland Moraal

Sander Bus

Roeland Moraal is Lead Portfolio Manager European High Yield in the Credit team. Before assuming this role, he was Portfolio Manager in the Robeco Duration team and worked as an Analyst with the Institute for Research and Investment Services. Roeland started his career in the industry in 1997. He holds a Master's in Applied Mathematics from the University of Twente and a Master’s in Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Sander Bus is CIO and Lead Portfolio Manager Global High Yield Bonds. He has been dedicated to High Yield at Robeco since 1998. Previously, Sander worked for two years as a Fixed Income Analyst at Rabobank where he started his career in the industry in 1996. He holds a Master's in Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and he is a CFA® charterholder. RobecoSAM SDG High Yield Bonds is managed within Robeco’s credit team, which consists of nine portfolio managers and twenty-three credit analysts. The portfolio managers are responsible for the construction and management of the credit portfolios, whereas the analysts cover the team’s fundamental research. Our analysts have long term experience in their respective sectors which they cover globally. Each analyst covers both investment grade and high yield, providing them an information advantage and benefiting from inefficiencies that traditionally exist between the two segmented markets. Furthermore, the credit team is supported by three dedicated quantitative researchers and four fixed income traders. On average, the members of the credit team have an experience in the asset management industry of seventeen years, of which eight years with Robeco.

Key points
About the fund
Key facts
Fund manager

Current MIFID legislation prevents us from reporting performance data for funds with less than a 12 month track record.

Statistics

Characteristics Fund Index

Rating

The average credit quality of the securities in the portfolio. AAA, AA, A en BAA (Investment Grade) means lower risk and BB, B, CCC, CC, C (High Yield) higher risk.

BA1/BA2

BA3/B1

Option Adjusted Modified Duration (years)

The interest rate sensitivity of the portfolio.

3.40

3.50

Maturity (years)

The average maturity of the securities in the portfolio.

4.60

4.70

Green Bonds (%)

The percentage of total AuM in the portfolio (market-weight based) that is indicated as Green Bond in Bloomberg. Green bonds are any type of regular bond instrument for which the proceeds will be applied exclusively to environmental projects.

3.70

3.00

Above mentioned ratios are based on gross of fees returns.

Costs

Per 30-04-2023
Cost of this fund Percentage

Ongoing charges

Indication of annual charges that are deducted for this fund. This indication is based on the costs over the last calendar year and may vary from year to year. Transaction costs incurred by the fund, any performance fees and other one-off costs are not included in the ongoing charges.

0.03%

Transaction costs

The transaction costs shown are the average annual transaction costs over the last three years calculated in accordance with European regulations.

0.02%

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Fiscal product treatment

The fund is established in Luxembourg and is subject to the Luxembourg tax laws and regulations. The fund is not liable to pay any corporation, income, dividend or capital gains tax in Luxembourg. The fund is subject to an annual subscription tax ('tax d'abonnement') in Luxembourg, which amounts to 0.01% of the net asset value of the fund. This tax is included in the net asset value of the fund. The fund can in principle use the Luxembourg treaty network to partially recover any withholding tax on its income.

Fiscal treatment of investor

Investors who are not subject to (exempt from) Dutch corporate-income tax (e.g. pension funds) are not taxed on the achieved result. Investors who are subject to Dutch corporate-income tax can be taxed for the result achieved on their investment in the fund. Dutch bodies that are subject to corporate-income tax are obligated to declare interest and dividend income, as well as capital gains in their tax return. Investors residing outside the Netherlands are subject to their respective national tax regime applying to foreign investment funds. We advise individual investors to consult their financial or tax adviser about the tax consequences of an investment in this fund in their specific circumstances before deciding to invest in the fund.

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Fund allocation

Country

Currency

Duration

Rating

Sector

Top 10

  • Country
  • Currency
  • Duration
  • Rating
  • Sector
  • Top 10
Per 30-04-2023
Country risk analysis is incorporated in our proprietary credit research, but we do not implement any specific top-down country policy in the portfolio. We have a slight preference for Europe versus the United States based on valuations.

Policies

  • All currency risks are hedged.

  • RobecoSAM SDG High Yield Bonds make use of derivatives for hedging purposes as well as for investment purposes. These derivatives are liquid.

  • The fund does not distribute dividend. The income earned by the fund is reflected in its share price. The fund's entire result is thus reflected in its share price development.

  • RobecoSAM SDG High Yield Bonds is an actively managed fund that invests in global corporate bonds. The selection of these bonds is based on fundamental analysis. The fund's objective is to provide long term capital growth.The fund has sustainable investment as its objective within the meaning of Article 9 of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The fund advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by investing in companies whose business models and operational practices are aligned with targets defined by the 17 UN SDGs. The fund integrates ESG (Environmental, Social and corporate Governance) in the investment process, applies an exclusion list basis controversial behavior, products (including controversial weapons, tobacco, palm oil and fossil fuel) while avoiding investment in thermal coal, weapons, military contracting and companies that severely violate labor conditions, next to engagement. The funds invests in high yield corporate bonds with a sub-investment grade rating, with a structural bias to the higher rated part in high yield. The portfolio is built on the basis of the eligible investment universe and the relevant SDGs using an internally developed framework about which more information can be obtained via the website www.robeco.com/si. The majority of bonds selected will be components of the Benchmark, but bonds outside the Benchmark may be selected too. The fund can deviate substantially from the weightings of the Benchmark. The fund aims to outperform the Benchmark over the long run, whilst still controlling relative risk through the applications of limits (on currencies and issuers) to the extent of deviation from the Benchmark. This will consequently limit the deviation of the performance relative to the Benchmark. The Benchmark is a broad market weighted index that is not consistent with the sustainable objective of the fund.

  • Risk management is fully embedded in the investment process to ensure that positions always meet predefined guidelines.

Fund allocation
Policies

Sustainability-related disclosures

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The fact that the sub-fund has obtained this label does not mean that it meets your personal sustainability goals or that the label is in line with requirements arising from any future national or European rules. The label obtained is valid for one year and subject to annual reappraisal. More information on this label.

Sustainability profile

Per 30-04-2023
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ESG Integration
Target Universe

SDG Impact Alignment

Per 30-04-2023

This distribution across SDG scores shows the portfolio weight allocated to companies with a positive, negative and neutral impact alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) based on Robeco’s SDG Framework. The frameworks, which utilizes a three-step approach to assess a company’s impact alignment with the relevant SDGs, provides a methodology for assigning companies with an SDG score. The score ranges from positive to negative impact alignment with levels from high, medium or low impact alignment. This results in a 7-step scale from -3 to +3. If the data set does not cover the full portfolio, the figures shown above each impact level sum to the coverage level to reflect the data coverage of the portfolio, with minimal deviations that reflect rounding. Weights < 0.5% will show as 0. If an index has been selected, the same figures are also provided for the index. Holdings mapped as corporates and/or sovereign are included in the figures. For more information, please visit https://www.robeco.com/docm/docu-brochure-robecosam-sdg-framework.pdf

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Sustainability

Per 30-04-2023

Sustainability is incorporated in the investment process by the means of a target universe, exclusions, ESG integration, and a minimum allocation to ESG-labeled bonds. The fund solely invests in credits issued by companies with a positive or neutral impact on the SDGs. The impact of issuers on the SDGs is determined by applying Robeco's internally developed three-step SDG Framework. The outcome is a quantified contribution expressed as an SDG score, considering both the contribution to the SDGs (positive, neutral or negative) and the extent of this contribution (high, medium or low). In addition, the fund does not invest in credit issuers that are in breach of international norms or where activities have been deemed detrimental to society following Robeco's exclusion policy. ESG factors are integrated in the bottom-up security analysis to assess the impact of financially material ESG risk on the issuer's fundamental credit quality. Furthermore, the fund invests at least 2% in green, social, sustainable, and/or sustainability-linked bonds. Lastly, where a credit issuer is flagged for breaching international standards in the ongoing monitoring, the issuer will become subject to exclusion.

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Sustainability

Market development

Per 30-04-2023

Not often have we seen months that were this stable in terms of spreads and yields. Spreads and yields both rose by 1 bp, to 453 bps and 8.22% (hedged to EUR). Intra-month volatility was very low as well. Investors had to digest the volatility around the US regional banks that shook markets in March, and were otherwise focused on the start of the earnings season and on macro data that could be relevant for central bank actions. In this relative calmness, primary markets reopened again: the number of deals reached almost 20 bln in the US alone, more than triple the amount that companies were able to print in March. However, this number is still a far cry from the normal issuance levels we have seen on average over the last 10 or so years. Default activity picked up in April, with several larger issuers in retail and healthcare going into restructuring.

Expectation of fund manager

Roeland Moraal

Sander Bus

Our base case remains that the US as well as Europe will experience a recession in 2023. We are coming from a prolonged period of (too) easy monetary policy and low or even negative yields. The result is a US economy running hot, and a persistent inflation problem both in the US and in Europe. Central banks have been on an aggressive rate hiking path, and their goal is to tame the inflation beast, be it at the cost of driving the economies into a recession. This is typically the environment where 'things break' and accidents happen. Likely victims are over-leveraged companies that are now facing a rapid rise in their cost of debt. Think CCC companies, leveraged LBOs, or companies in sectors that were perceived to be stable and hence loaded with debt like in telecom. The question is: what is priced in? With all-in yields now at 7.5% to 8.5%, a lot of additional widening is needed for total returns to become negative. We will continue to take an active beta approach and are currently close to a beta of 1. We stay up-in-quality. Stock picking is ever more important, as the current environment will certainly create winners and losers.

Market development
Expectation of fund manager

Fund documents

  • Factsheet
  • Prospectus
  • Articles of association
  • Full sustainability-related disclosures

(Semi) annual reports

  • Annual report 2022
  • Annual report 2021
  • Annual report 2020
  • Semi-annual report 2022
  • Semi-annual report 2021
  • Semi-annual report 2020
Fund documents
Reports
Calendar year return summary of the funds

A provision for exchange rate fluctuation when representations are made in foreign currencies (i.e. Any representations made which are not denominated in HKD/ USD/ EUR) may expose investors to exchange rate fluctuations.

Investment involves risks. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. The information contained in this website is provided for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice. Investors are advised to seek independent advice before making any investment decision. Please refer to the relevant offering documents for details including the risk factors before making any investment decisions. This web page is published by Robeco Hong Kong Limited and has not been reviewed by the Securities and Futures Commission.

Positive distribution yield does not imply positive return. Investors should not make any investment decision solely based on information contained in the table. You should read the relevant offering document (including the key facts statement) of the fund for further details including the risk factors.

Annualized yield is calculated with the following formula: Sum of the monthly dividends over a period of 12 months / average of the applicable prices of the first business day of these 12 months * 100%

Where a reference is made to the frequency of dividend distributions, this frequency is an aim and not a guarantee. The fund may at its discretion pay dividend out from capital. Dividend yield is not guaranteed, and is not indicative the return of the Fund. The yield figure is for reference only. The fund may at its discretion to pay dividend out from capital. Distributions out of capital may result in the reduction of an investor’s original capital invested in the Sub-fund or from any capital gains attributable to that original investment of the Sub-fund. Also, any distributions involving the capital and/or capital gains may result in an immediate reduction of the net asset value per share of the relevant class. Payment of dividends out of capital amounts to a return or withdrawal of part of an investor’s original investment or from any capital gains attributable to that original investment. If there is a change of distribution policy of the Sub-fund, the Management Company will seek the prior approval of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong ('SFC') and provide at least one month’s prior notice to affected Shareholders.

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