Investment Approach

The Fund aims to achieve a return on your investment, through a combination of capital growth and income on the Fund’s assets, which reflects the return of FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index, the Fund’s benchmark index.

The Fund is passively managed and invests so far as possible and practicable in equity securities (e.g. shares) of real estate companies on a global basis and in real estate investment trusts which make up the Fund’s benchmark index.

The benchmark index measures the performance of the equity market of the developed markets globally and is a free float-adjusted market capitalisation weighted index. Free float-adjusted means that only shares readily available in the market rather than all of a company’s issued shares are used in calculating the benchmark index. Free float-adjusted market capitalisation is the share price of a company multiplied by the number of shares readily available in the market.