The Principal Sustainable Asian Income Fund (“Sub-Fund”) will primarily (i.e. at least 70% of the Sub-Fund’s net asset value) invest in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities and fixed income-related securities of companies and issuers in Asia which are considered to be outperforming their peers with respect to sustainability performance based on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors (“ESG achievers”) as well as exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) and other collective investment schemes (“CISs”) which primarily invest in debt securities of companies or issuers that maintain better ESG profiles than their corresponding traditional counterparts (collectively “ESG achiever ETFs/CISs”), and provide a return consisting of income and capital growth over medium to long term.

The Sub-Fund will primarily invest in a portfolio of fixed income and fixed income-related securities of companies domiciled in, traded in and/or with substantial business interests in Asia and/or governments and government-related issuers located in Asia, including but not limited to sovereign, quasi-sovereign, agency, such investments may include corporate bonds/debentures, floating rate notes, bills, commercial papers, certificates of deposit, and debt instruments with loss-absorption features, which may be denominated in USD or other currencies. The Sub-Fund may invest 30% or more of its net asset value in fixed income and fixed income-related securities relating to emerging markets. Such investments carry general investment risk, risks associated with debt securities, ESG investment policy risk, currency risk, concentration risk, specific risks in investing in emerging markets, risks associated with RMB unit classes, risk associated with investment in financial derivative instruments, risks of implementing active currency position and other associated risks that can cause portfolio values to be very volatile.

The Sub-Fund may invest up to 40% of its Net Asset Value in debt securities rated below investment grade (i.e. rated BB+ or below by Standard & Poor’s or comparable ratings by Moody’s Investors Services or Fitch Ratings) or in the case the credit rating is designated/assigned by a PRC (means the People’s Republic of China excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for purpose of this material) credit rating agency, A+ and below, or unrated. For the purpose of the Sub-Fund, “unrated debt securities” is defined as debt securities which neither the debt securities nor their issuers have a credit rating. While these credit ratings provided by the relevant rating agencies serve as a point of reference, the Sub-Delegate of the Manager will conduct its own assessment on the credit quality based on various factors, such as leverage level, operating margin, return on capital, interest coverage, operating cash flows, industry outlook, competitive position in the market and corporate governance. The Sub-Fund may from time to time invest less than 30% of its Net Asset Value in RMB-denominated debt securities issued in the PRC, including through the Qualified Foreign Investor (“QFI”) regime, the China interbank bond market direct access program and/ or China Hong Kong Bond Connect, as well as urban investment bonds which are debt instruments issued by local government financing vehicles (“LGFVs”). These LGFVs are separate legal entities established by local governments and/or their affiliates to raise financing for public welfare investment or infrastructure projects.

The use of ESG criteria may affect the Sub-Fund’s investment performance and, as such, the Sub-Fund may perform differently compared to similar funds that do not use such criteria. For instance, ESG criteria used in the Sub-Fund’s investment policy may result in the Sub-Fund forgoing opportunities to buy certain securities when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, and/or selling securities due to such securities no longer meeting the Sub-Fund’s ESG criteria when it might be disadvantageous to do so. As such, the application of ESG criteria may restrict the ability of the Sub-Fund to acquire or dispose of its investments at a price and time that it wishes to do so, and may therefore result in a loss to the Sub-Fund. The use of ESG criteria may also result in the Sub-Fund being concentrated in companies with a focus on ESG criteria and its value may be more volatile than that of a fund having a more diverse portfolio of investments. The selection of securities may involve the subjective judgement of the Fund Manager’s Sub-Delegates. There is also a lack of standardised taxonomy of ESG criteria evaluation methodology and the way in which different funds apply such ESG criteria may vary. The Fund Manager and the Fund Manager’s Sub-Delegates’ ESG assessment takes into account ESG data and research from external data providers, which may be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable. As a result, there is a risk associated with the assessment of a security or issuer based on such information or data.

The Sub-Fund may also invest less than 30% of its net asset value in debt instruments with loss absorption features, which may include instruments classified as Additional Tier 1/Tier 2 capital instruments, contingent convertible bonds (“CoCos”), non-preferred senior bonds which may also be known as Tier 3 bonds and other instruments eligible to count as loss-absorbing capacity under the resolution regime for financial institution, in compliance with its investment policy and limits. These instruments may be subject to contingent write-down or contingent conversion to equity on the occurrence of trigger event(s).

The Sub-Fund’s net derivative exposure may be up to 50% of the Sub-Fund’s net asset value.

Investment involves risk. There is no assurance on investment returns and you may not get back the amount originally invested.

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In respect of the Income Class Units, the Fund Manager may at its discretion pay dividend out of gross income while paying all or part of the fees and expenses attributable to the Income Class Units out of the capital of such units, resulting in an increase in distributable income for the payment of dividend by the Income Class Units and therefore, the Sub-Fund may effectively pay dividend out of capital. For Income Plus Class Units, the Fund Manager may pay dividends out of capital. The payment of dividends effectively out of capital or out of capital amounts to a return or withdrawal of part of a Unitholder’s original investment in the Income Class Units or the Income Plus Class Units or from any capital gains attributable to that original investment. Any such distributions may result in an immediate reduction of the net asset value per unit. Dividend is not guaranteed.