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Asia Responsible Transition Bond Fund

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Asia Responsible Transition Bond Fund

UCITS Fund | Fixed Income

Asia Responsible Transition Bond Fund

SFDR Classification | Article 8

Effective 12th December 2024, the Neuberger Berman Responsible Asian Debt – Hard Currency Fund changed name to the Neuberger Berman Asia Responsible Transition Bond Fund.

Overview
A diversified portfolio that seeks to achieve an attractive level of return by primarily investing in a selection of Asian debt securities, denominated in hard currency

Why Invest

Access Asia’s Full Potential

Active management is the best way for investors to access the full potential of the asset class and benefit from the strong growth witnessed in Asian credit

A Robust, Active Research Process

Combines bottom-up analysis with proprietary coverage of Asian 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 Asia Responsible Transition Bond 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.

Performance and Exposures
ESG
Fund Facts

The ongoing charge figure (incl. management fee) is based on the annual expenses for the period ending 31 December 2023.

The fund’s benchmark name shown here may be abbreviated. Please refer to the supplement for the full benchmark name.

Portfolio Management Team
Rob Drijkoningen
Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt - Head of Fixed Income Europe
The Hague
Gorky Urquieta
Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt
Atlanta
Prashant Singh, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager
Singapore
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.
Prashant Singh, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager
Prashant Singh, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Prashant is the Lead Portfolio Manager (Asia) on the Emerging Markets Debt team. He is responsible for managing the emerging markets debt portfolios in the Asia region, focusing on rates and currencies. Prashant joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management, where he held a similar role. Prior to that, he worked on the ING Investment Management (India) fixed income desk and was responsible for managing Indian fixed income and money market funds. Prashant graduated from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India with a BS in Mathematics and earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, specializing in Finance. Prashant has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Nish Popat
Senior Portfolio Manager
London
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Singapore
Nish Popat, Senior Portfolio Manager
Nish Popat, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Nish is a Co-Lead Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team. Nish joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management, where he was most recently a senior portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team. Prior to that role, he was head of fixed income for the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to joining ING, Nish was the head of the fixed income trading desk at NBD Investment Bank running relative value/market-making books in Middle East debt, and before that worked in Saudi Arabia for the Saudi Holland Bank as head of fixed income and derivatives. Nish started his career in London where he held several fixed income positions.
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA, Portfolio Manager
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA, Vice President, joined Neuberger Berman in 2022. Wei Siong is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team based in Singapore, responsible for both Asia and China onshore fixed income portfolios. He was previously involved in managing absolute-return portfolios, focusing on both hard-currency and local-currency Global Emerging Market strategies in a large institutional single Family Office and HSBC Singapore. Earlier in his career, he was a fixed income analyst, conducting bottom-up fundamental research across Asia Investment Grade and High Yield credits in Nikko Asset Management and an Asia-focused hedge fund, Blue Rice Investment Management. Wei Siong earned a BBA from Nanyang Technological University and has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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