A degree of risk applies to all types of investments, including investments in this Fund. Prospective investors should be aware that there is no guarantee that the implementation of the Investment Manager’s investment process will not result in losses to Unitholders, including losses of capital. As investing in the Fund involves exposing your investment to a range of risks, it is important that you understand:
Risk can mean different things to different people. It can mean the risk that your investment may fail to achieve the returns that you expect. This includes situations in which your investment may suffer substantial declines in value. It also includes situations in which your investment goals will not be met because the type of investments you chose did not provide the potential for adequate returns. Risk is also often defined to mean investment volatility. That means the extent to which an investment varies in value over a given period. Often, investments offering higher levels of return also exhibit higher levels of short-term volatility.
Investment strategies that seek to minimize risk are at times described in the context of diversification. Diversification of itself may not be sufficient to mitigate all risks described below.
Investments are subject to many risks, not all of which can be predicted or foreseen. Below we have listed the ones we believe to be most relevant to this investment and have broadly explained each risk. The risks set out in this section are not intended to be exhaustive. Many risks are outside the control of the Trustee and Investment Manager. Before making an investment decision, you should obtain your own investment advice, taking into account your own investment needs and financial circumstances. A prospective investor contemplating an investment in the Fund should consider the entire contents of this Information Memorandum before making a decision to invest in the Fund.
Fund risk refers to specific risks associated with the Fund, such as termination and changes to fees and expenses. The Trustee may close the Fund to further investments if, for example, it is considered appropriate given the investment objective and investment strategy of the Fund. The Trustee may also terminate the Fund by notice to Unitholders.
An investment in the Fund is governed by the terms of the Trust Deed for the Fund, as amended from time to time. There is also a risk that investing in the Fund may give different results from holding the underlying assets of the Fund directly because of:
The Trustee aims to manage these risks by monitoring the Fund and acting in Unitholders' best interests. A winding up of the Fund will result in the realisation of tax positions (both income and capital) at that time.
There can be no assurance that the Fund's investment objective will be achieved, or that a Unitholder will receive a return on their investment. An investment in the Fund should only be undertaken by investors that have the capacity to withstand a partial or even complete loss of their investment and who have a capacity to assess and assume the risk. There may be times when an investment in the Fund may be illiquid. There may also be occasions when the Investment Manager and its affiliates encounter potential conflicts of interest in relation to the Fund.
The investment style of an investment manager can have a substantial impact on the investment returns of the Fund. No single investment style performs better than all other investment styles in all market conditions. Investment performance will also depend on the skill of the Investment Manager in selecting, combining, and implementing investment decisions. Given the Fund relies heavily on the ability of the Investment Manager to identify investments that will outperform other investments, should the Investment Manager make the wrong decision, the Fund may have negative returns. Changes in the personnel of the Investment Manager may also have an impact on investment returns of the Fund.
Generally, the investment return on a particular asset is correlated to the return on other assets from the same market, region, or asset class. Market risk is impacted by broad factors such as interest rates, availability of credit, economic uncertainty, changes in laws and regulations (including government responses to financial crises and laws relating to the taxation of the Fund's investment), trade barriers, currency exchange controls, political environment, investor sentiment and significant external events (e.g. natural disasters). These factors may affect the level and volatility of the prices of securities or other financial instruments and the liquidity of the Fund's investments. Volatility or illiquidity could impair the Fund's profitability or result in losses. The Fund may maintain substantial trading positions that can be adversely affected by the level of volatility in the financial markets; the larger the positions, the greater the potential for loss.
The Fund's investment program may involve the purchase and sale of relatively volatile securities and other instruments. Fluctuations or prolonged changes in the volatility of such instruments can adversely affect the value of investments held by the Fund.
Under certain market conditions, such as during volatile markets when trading in a security or market is otherwise impaired, or due to economic, market, legal, political, or other factors, the liquidity of the Fund's investment may be reduced. If a security is not actively traded it may not be readily bought or sold without some adverse impact on the price paid or obtained. If a Unitholder or a group of Unitholders' in the Fund seek to make large redemptions, then selling assets to meet those redemptions may result in a detrimental impact on the price received for those assets. In certain circumstances, the Trustee may be required to suspend redemptions (refer to Redemption risk below) to allow sufficient time for a more orderly liquidation of assets to meet the redemptions.
In certain circumstances (including where assets in which the Fund invests cannot be readily bought and sold, or market events reduce the liquidity of a security or asset class), there is a risk that the anticipated timeframe for meeting requests for redemption may not be able to be met. This is because it may take longer to sell these types of investments at an acceptable price. In this case, redemption from the Fund may take significantly longer than the anticipated timeframe or may be suspended or limited. Refer to Section 6 for more information.
Generally, the Fund will not be restricted from dealing with any particular counterparty. The Fund is always subject to the risk that a counterparty may not timely settle a transaction, perform its obligations in accordance with contractual terms and conditions, or otherwise not perform its obligations to make due payment or delivery (thus causing the Fund to suffer a loss which may be material. Moreover, for some transactions, the Fund may be required to post collateral to its counterparty, and a failure of that counterparty or its affiliates could result in a loss of that collateral.
In the event that a counterparty defaults on its obligations for any reason, the Fund may incur replacement costs of transactions, losses associated with other assets which the failed transaction was intended to hedge, and fees and expenses in seeking redress (which may be uncertain in outcome). Furthermore, any misconduct on behalf of counterparties, including, without limitation, fraudulent activities, will increase the Fund's exposure to the risk of loss.
For further details, please refer to section 9 “Material Contracts”.
There is a risk that an issuer of a security in which the Fund has invested will default on its obligations due to insolvency or financial distress, resulting in an adverse effect on the value of the Fund's investments and hence the Net Asset Value per Unit.
There is a risk that an issuer of a security in which the Fund has invested will default on its obligations due to insolvency or financial distress, resulting in an adverse effect on the value of the Fund's investments and hence the Net Asset Value per Unit.
Regulatory actions by governments and government agencies could materially affect the global markets, including the pricing of securities, and may limit the Fund's activities or investment opportunities.
The Fund is actively involved in globally linked financial markets and is subject to risk arising from a default by one or several large institutions that engage in substantial transactions and other activities with each other, and are dependent on one another to meet their liquidity or operational needs so that a default by one institution creates the risk of a series of defaults by the other institutions. This risk is separate from the risk of dealing directly with a counterparty that fails and can impact participants in markets even if they do not have direct relationships or exposure to the defaulted financial institution. This is sometimes referred to as “systemic risk” and may adversely affect financial intermediaries, such as clearing agencies, clearinghouses, banks, securities firms, and exchanges, with which the Fund interacts on a daily basis.
The Investment Manager intends to seek to diversify the Fund's investments as it deems appropriate and consistent with the Fund's investment objective. However, in the event the Fund's investment portfolio is concentrated in a small number of investments, the portfolio will be subject to a greater level of volatility