Emerging Market Debt Sustainable Investment Grade Blend Fund

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Emerging Market Debt Sustainable Investment Grade Blend Fund

SFDR Classification | Article 8

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Overview

A blended approach for risk-constrained investors seeking diversified emerging market debt exposure with reduced volatility and that meets higher sustainability criteria

Why Invest

Broad Exposure to Emerging Market Debt with a High-Quality Bias

Exposure to the sizeable universe of investment grade rated emerging market bonds across hard and local currency with a high quality focus and sustainability objectives

A Robust, Active Research Process

Combines bottom-up analysis with proprietary coverage of 90+ EM countries and integration of ESG factors into the fund’s fundamental investment analysis with a top-down asset allocation framework

Experienced, Stable and Well-Resourced Team

Managed by a well-established investment team with a long-term track record in managing EMD strategies and a multi-site set-up to ensure local perspective is incorporated

This is a marketing communication in respect of the Neuberger Berman Emerging Market Debt Sustainable Investment Grade Blend Fund. Please refer to the fund prospectus and offering documents, including the Key Information Document (“KID”) or Key Investor Information Document (“KIID”) as applicable, before making any final investment decisions. Investors should note that by making an investment they will own shares in the fund, and not the underlying assets.

The fund complies with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (the “SFDR”) and is classified as an Article 8 SFDR fund. Neuberger Berman believes that Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) factors, like any other factor, should be incorporated in a manner appropriate for the specific asset class, investment objective and style of each investment strategy.

Key Risks

Market Risk: The risk of a change in the value of a position as a result of underlying market factors, including among other things, the overall performance of companies and the market perception of the global economy.

Liquidity Risk: The risk that the fund may be unable to sell an investment readily at its fair market value. In extreme market conditions this can affect the fund’s ability to meet redemption requests upon demand.

Emerging Markets Risk: Emerging markets are likely to bear higher risk due to a possible lack of adequate financial, legal, social, political and economic structures, protection and stability as well as uncertain tax positions which may lead to lower liquidity. The NAV of the fund may experience medium to high volatility due to lower liquidity and the availability of reliable information, as well as due to the fund's investment policies or portfolio management techniques.

Credit Risk: The risk that bond issuers may fail to meet their interest repayments, or repay debt, resulting in temporary or permanent losses to the fund.

Interest Rate Risk: The risk of interest rate movements affecting the value of fixed-rate bonds.

Derivatives Risk: The fund is permitted to use certain types of financial derivative instruments (including certain complex instruments). This may increase the fund’s leverage significantly which may cause large variations in the value of your share. Investors should note that the fund may achieve its investment objective by investing principally in Financial Derivative Instruments (FDI). There are certain investment risks that apply in relation to the use of FDI. The fund’s use of FDI can involve significant risks of loss.

Counterparty Risk: The risk that a counterparty will not fulfil its payment obligation for a trade, contract or other transaction, on the due date.

Operational Risk: The risk of direct or indirect loss resulting from inadequate or failed processes, people and systems including those relating to the safekeeping of assets or from external events.

Currency Risk: Investors who subscribe in a currency other than the base currency of the fund are exposed to currency risk. Fluctuations in exchange rates may affect the return on investment. Where past performance is shown it is based on the share class to which this webpage relates. If the currency of this share class is different from your local currency, then you should be aware that due to exchange rate fluctuations the performance shown may increase or decrease if converted into your local currency.

For full information on the risks please refer to the fund prospectus and offering documents, including the KID or KIID, as applicable.

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Portfolio Management Team

Rob Drijkoningen

Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt - Head of Fixed Income Europe

35 Years of Industry Experience

12 Years with Neuberger Berman

Gorky Urquieta

Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt

31 Years of Industry Experience

12 Years with Neuberger Berman

Bart van der Made

Senior Portfolio Manager

28 Years of Industry Experience

12 Years with Neuberger Berman

Rob Drijkoningen, Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt - Head of Fixed Income Europe

Rob Drijkoningen, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Rob is a Co-Head of the Emerging Markets Debt team and Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for around $26 bn in assets per H1 2024. Rob joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management for almost 18 years as the global co-head of the Emerging Markets Debt team responsible for managing over $16 billion in assets at the time. In 1990, Rob began his career on the sell-side at Nomura and Goldman Sachs, after which he became senior investment manager for global fixed income at ING Investment Management. In 1997 he became global head of the Emerging Markets Debt team and in 2004 was named global head of the Emerging Markets Debt and High Yield teams. From 2007 through 2009 Rob created and led ING Investment Management’s Multi-Asset Group in Europe. In 2009 he was appointed global head of emerging markets for both emerging markets equity and debt strategies. Rob earned his Macro-Economics degree from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and has authored numerous articles on emerging markets debt subjects.

Gorky Urquieta, Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt

Gorky Urquieta, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Gorky is a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of the Emerging Markets Debt team. He joined the firm from ING Investment Management where he was most recently global co-head of EMD, responsible for global emerging markets debt external and local currency strategies. Gorky joined ING in 1997 as a member of Emerging Markets Investors, a hedge fund manager affiliated with ING Furman Selz Asset Management, where he conducted analysis of sovereign and corporate bonds and loans, local currency investments and equities. Previously, Gorky worked at Dart Container Corporation where he was part of a research and trading team active in emerging and developed markets. He obtained a BA in Business Administration from the Bolivian Catholic University in La Paz, Bolivia, and a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin.

Bart van der Made, Senior Portfolio Manager

Bart van der Made, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Bart is a Lead Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team, responsible for managing EMD Hard Currency portfolios. Prior to joining the firm, Bart held various roles at ING Investment Management, most recently since 2009, as lead portfolio manager of emerging markets debt (hard currency). From 2005 onwards, he was a senior portfolio manager and before that was the EMD economist – the role in which he joined in 2000. He began his career in 1997 as econometrician at ING Group in the country risk department, writing emerging market country risk reports and working on quantifying country risk. He earned a Master’s degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Bart has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Raoul Luttik

Senior Portfolio Manager

30 Years of Industry Experience

12 Years with Neuberger Berman

Vera Kartseva, CFA

Portfolio Manager and Strategist

18 Years of Industry Experience

12 Years with Neuberger Berman

Raoul Luttik, Senior Portfolio Manager

Raoul Luttik, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Raoul is a Lead Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team, responsible for managing EMD Local Currency strategies. Raoul joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management, where he was a lead portfolio manager within their Emerging Markets team (local currency). Raoul started at ING Investment Management in 1998, and has been involved with EMD, including local currency investments within EMD, since then. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, he worked with Detam Pension Services as a fixed income and money market specialist, covering various European markets. Raoul acquired a degree in Economics from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 1993. In 1997 he became RBA registered (Register of Investment Analysts) a registration affiliated with the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies. Raoul is also DSI qualified.

Vera Kartseva, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Strategist

Vera Kartseva, CFA, Vice President, joined the firm in 2013. Vera is a Strategist on the Emerging Markets Debt team. In this role, Vera focuses on tactical asset allocation within EMD. Vera joined the firm from ING Investment Management where she held a similar role, and was also managing an EMD Opportunities fund, a blended strategy of hard and local currency debt. Prior to that, Vera was a quantitative analyst on the Multi-Asset Group of ING Investment Management, where she focused on Global Tactical Asset Allocation. Prior to working at ING Management, Vera worked for Saen Options, Amsterdam, as a junior quantitative researcher. Vera received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics (cum laude) from the Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, a Master’s degree in Information Management and a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Vera has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

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