Robeco SDG High Yield Bonds ZH GBP

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

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.

Class and codes

Asset class
Bonds
ISIN
LU2539433271
Bloomberg
ROBHYDS LX

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.

Article 8

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Rating

( 30-11 )

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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

Robeco 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. Performance drivers are the top-down beta positioning as well as bottom-up issuer selection. The fund 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 fund's objective is to provide long term capital growth.

Key facts

Per 30-11-2025

Total size of fund	GBP 488,482,558
Size of share class	GBP 8,620,245
Inception date share class	18-10-2022
1-year performance	7.80%
Dividend paying	No

Fund manager

Christiaan Lever
Sander Bus
Roeland Moraal
Daniel de Koning

Christiaan Lever is Portfolio Manager High Yield and Emerging Credits in the Credit team. Before assuming this role in 2016, he was Financial Risk Manager at Robeco, focusing on market risk, counterparty risk and liquidity risk within fixed Income markets. Christiaan has been active in the industry since 2010. He holds a Master's in Quantitative Finance and in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and he is a CFA® Charterholder. Sander Bus is CIO and Portfolio Manager High Yield Bonds in the Credit team. 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. Roeland Moraal is Portfolio Manager 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. Daniel de Koning is Portfolio Manager High Yield in the Credit team. Prior to joining Robeco in 2020, he was Portfolio Manager High Yield at NN Investment Partners. Daniel started his career in 2011 at APG Asset Management, where he held roles of Credit Analyst and Portfolio Manager High Yield. He holds a Master’s in Business Economics from the University of Amsterdam and he is a CFA® and CAIA® charterholder.

Per period	Fund	Reference index
1 month	0.39%	0.42%
3 months	1.36%	1.25%
YTD	7.56%	7.48%
1 year	7.80%	7.32%
2 years	9.28%	9.93%
3 years	9.05%	9.28%
Since inception 18-10-2022	10.55%	10.29%

Statistics	3 years	5 Years
Tracking error ex-post (%) The ex-post tracking error is defined as the volatility of the fund's achieved excess return over the index return. In fund management, most managers are subject to an ex-ante (pre-determined) tracking error, which defines the extent of the additional risk they may take when aspiring to outperform the fund's benchmark. The ex-post tracking error explains the distribution of past fund performances compared to those of its underlying benchmark. With a higher tracking error, the fund's returns deviate more from its index's returns, hence there is a greater chance that the fund may outperform. The wider the spread of returns relative to the benchmark, the more "actively" a fund has been managed. In contrast, a low tracking error indicates more "passive" management.	0.90	-
Information ratio This ratio serves to evaluate the quality of the excess return a fund manager has achieved because it takes the active risk involved into account. The information ratio is defined as the excess return over the benchmark return divided by the fund's tracking error. The higher the information ratio, the better. For example, a fund with a tracking error of 4% and an excess return of 2% over benchmark has an information ratio of 0.5, which is quite good.	-0.17	-
Sharpe ratio This ratio measures the risk-adjusted performance and allows the performance quality of different investments to be compared. It is calculated by subtracting the risk-free rate from the fund's returns and dividing the result by the fund's standard deviation (risk). So the Sharpe ratio tells us whether a fund's returns are the result of smart investment decisions or stem from taking extra risk. The higher the ratio, the better, meaning that a greater return is achieved per unit of risk. This ratio is named after its inventor, Nobel Laureate, William Sharpe.	1.16	-
Alpha (%) Alpha measures the difference between a portfolio's actual return and its expected performance, given the level of risk, compared to the benchmark. A positive alpha figure indicates that the fund has performed better than expected, given the level of risk. Beta is used to calculate the level of risk compared to the benchmark..	0.28	-
Beta Beta is a measure of a portfolio's volatility, or systematic risk, in comparison to the benchmark. A beta of 1 indicates that the portfolio will move with the benchmark. A beta of less than 1 means that the portfolio will be less volatile than the benchmark. A beta of more than 1 indicates that the portfolio will be more volatile than the benchmark. For example, if a portfolio's beta is 1.2 it is theoretically 20% more volatile than the benchmark.	0.90	-
Standard deviation Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean. The more spread out the data is, the higher the deviation. In finance, standard deviation is applied to the annual rate of return of an investment to measure the investment's volatility (risk).	3.81	-
Max. monthly gain (%) The maximum (i.e. highest) absolute positive monthly performance in the underlying period.	4.02	-
Max. monthly loss (%) The maximum (i.e. highest) absolute negative monthly performance in the underlying period.	-1.10	-

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.	0.02%
Included management fee A fee paid by the fund to the asset management company for the professional management of the fund.	0.00%
Included service fee This fee is intended to cover official fees, such as the cost of annual reports, annual shareholders' meetings and price publications.	0.00%
Transaction costs The transaction costs shown are the average annual transaction costs over the last three years calculated in accordance with European regulations.	0.00%

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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Per 30-11-2025

Market development

Per 30-11-2025

In November, high yield spreads tightened by 11 bps to 276, while YTW compressed by 17 bps to 6.27%. The month was characterized by a risk-off tone in equities but relative stability in credit, as investors weighed renewed concerns over global growth. Discussion centered on the bifurcation within the US economy, where higher-income households continue to drive consumption while lower-income segments show increasing signs of strain amid a cooling labor market and slowing wage growth. The 43-day US government shutdown – the longest in history – ended on November 12th, allowing the resumption of key data releases and enabling policymakers to make a more informed decision in their final meeting of the year. In Europe, the ECB kept rates unchanged at 2%, with inflation viewed as broadly under control and policy settings seen near the target level. US high yield issuance totaled USD 24.9 bln during the month, while three default or LME events affected just under USD 10 bln of debt.

Performance explanation

Per 30-11-2025

Based on transaction prices, the fund's return was 0.39%. In November, the high yield market had a total return of 0.27%. This result was mainly driven by declining underlying government rates, with the US 10-year yield falling to 4.1%, together with negative excess credit returns. The portfolio outperformed by 15 bps this month, as issuer selection contributed 13 bps and underweight beta positioning added 2 bps. Higher quality credit outperformed in the dollar market, and underperformed in the EUR market, on a risk-adjusted basis. Overall, the EUR market – where we hold an overweight – had better returns. From a sector perspective, our underweight in the consumer cyclical and overweight in basic industry sectors added 8 bps and 4 bps, respectively; underweight in the technology sector detracted 2 bps. Our overweight in Magnera contributed 5 bps after the specialty materials company delivered a strong first set of results after its merger with Glatfelter. Our overweight in CoreWeave detracted 4 bps, as the bonds and stock fell amid broader AI sector weakness and concerns over NVIDIA's dominance following Google's successful launch of Gemini 3 on TPUs, which fueled rotation away from GPU-centric infrastructure providers.

Expectation of fund manager

Christiaan Lever
Sander Bus
Roeland Moraal
Daniel de Koning

The third quarter of 2025 was again notable, with high yield spreads tightening to near record lows despite geopolitical tensions and softer economic signals. Markets remain resilient, largely ignoring repeated risk warnings. US growth is expected to slow to approximately 1.5% annualized, with labor data showing weaker job creation and private employment. Further deterioration could weigh on sentiment and spending, while inflation risks persist from tariffs, wages, and AI-driven power demand. Europe looks steadier, supported by savings, fiscal spending, and inflation back at target, though still exposed to US policy shifts. Despite stretched valuations, strong technicals prevail as investors, burned by past false alarms, avoid hedging and continue to chase new issues. We remain cautious, emphasizing quality and avoiding weaker segments where valuations no longer cover risks.

Robeco SDG High Yield Bonds ZH GBP

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

Key points

About this fund

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