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Short Duration Corporate Bond Fund

The Short Duration Corporate Bond Fund is an actively managed bond fund. It primarily invests in investment grade corporate bonds. The average duration of the bonds will typically be 1 to 3 years, but may extend down to 0 years or up to 5 years. It may also invest in supranational bonds and sovereign bonds. This fund may invest some of its assets outside of the eurozone subject to currency and duration exposure limits. Corporate bonds are subject to increased liquidity risk compared to sovereign bonds. This means that the fund may not always be able to sell its assets for full value, and this could significantly impact your returns if you exit or enter the fund at these times. As the fund is managed from the point of view of a euro investor any currency hedging that may be conducted will be into euros. This fund is managed by Zurich Life.

Main features

Responsible Investment

As an investment manager, Zurich Life Assurance plc is conscious of the need to ensure that we invest policyholder and shareholder funds responsibly. For us, Responsible Investment is all about ‘doing well and doing good’.
 
This fund is classified as Article 8 under the Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation, more information can be found here:
SFDR Periodic Report
SFDR Fund Website Disclosure
SFDR Pre-Contractual Disclosure

Current Fund Price* (as at 10/05/2024)

Type
Price
Bid
39.750
Offer
41.842

Asset Split**

95% Bonds
5% Cash

Annualised Performance (%)*

*Notes: Annual management charges (AMC) apply. The fund performance shown is before the full AMC is applied on your policy.
Returns are based on offer/offer performance and do not represent the return achieved by individual policies linked to the fund.
The fund price/performance shown is for the Pension / Gross of Tax Funds category.
*Source: Zurich Life
**Note: Asset Splits are updated quarterly

Why Zurich?

Our investment team is based in Blackrock, Co. Dublin and is responsible for managing funds of approximately €38 billion*. The most senior members of the investment team have been together for more than fifteen years. It is the close co-operation of our fund managers in making investment decisions across assets, sectors and markets that differentiates us from other fund managers. We have an integrated team-based investment process which ensures that we implement our investment strategy quickly and effectively. We are active investment managers with a macro-economic approach, which is top-down and asset allocation driven. We construct our portfolios to allow us to take advantage of opportunities over all parts of the economic cycle. Zurich has an excellent reputation for investment performance and customer service.

*Source: Zurich, June 2024.

Warning: Past performance is not a reliable guide to future performance.
Warning: Benefits may be affected by changes in currency exchange rates.
Warning: The value of your investment may go down as well as up.
Warning: If you invest in these funds you may lose some or all of the money you invest.

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