Investing in foreign domiciled securities may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuation in currency values, withholding taxes, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations.
Investments in emerging or developing markets may be more volatile and less liquid than investing in developed markets and may involve exposure to economic structures that are generally less diverse and mature and to political systems which have less stability than those of more developed countries.
Currency Risk is a form of risk that arises from the change in price of one currency against another. Whenever investors or companies have assets or business operations across national borders, they face currency risk if their positions are not hedged. Currency Hedging involves taking offsetting positions to reduce exposure to different currencies. These currency exchange contracts may reduce or eliminate some or all of the benefit that an investment may experience from favorable currency fluctuations.
Investments in Senior Loans are subject to credit risk and general investment risk. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the borrower of a Senior Loan will be unable and/or unwilling to make timely interest payments and/or repay the principal on its obligation. Default in the payment of interest or principal on a Senior Loan will result in a reduction in the value of the Senior Loan.
The fund is actively managed. The sub-adviser’s judgments about the attractiveness, relative value, or potential appreciation of a particular sector, security, commodity or investment strategy may prove to be incorrect, and may cause the fund to incur losses. There can be no assurance that the sub-adviser’s investment techniques and decisions will produce the desired results.
Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC is the Sub-Investment Manager of the Underlying Funds. State Street Global Advisors, Australia Services Limited is not affiliated with Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC. To achieve its investment objective, the Fund will obtain its investment exposure to loans and other debt instruments through units in a US domiciled ETF(“Underlying Fund”). In addition to the investment in the Underlying Fund, currency hedging is implemented using rolling one-month forward currency contracts.
CLO Debt Securities carry certain structural risks including potential subordination to the other tranches of debt in the same capital structure, volatility of underlying collateral values, and potential for principal loss of the underlying assets in excess of the equity valuation. CLOs issue classes or "tranches" of securities that vary in risk and yield. Losses caused by defaults on underlying assets are borne first by the holders of subordinate tranches.
Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as “junk bonds”, is considered speculative and involves greater risk of default than investing in investment grade fixed income securities. Issuers of high yield debt securities may have substantially greater risk of insolvency or bankruptcy than issuers of higher-quality debt securities.
Bonds generally present less short-term risk and volatility than stocks, but contain interest rate risk (as interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall); issuer default risk; issuer credit risk; liquidity risk; and inflation risk. These effects are usually pronounced for longer-term securities. Any fixed income security sold or redeemed prior to maturity may be subject to a substantial gain or loss.
