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Perpetual Active Fixed Interest Fund - Class A

Perpetual Active Fixed Interest Fund - Class A

An active investment process offering both diversification and risk management.

The Perpetual Active Fixed Interest Fund aims to provide regular income, with quarterly distributions. The Fund offers investors both diversification and risk management through exposure to a hand-picked selection of primarily corporate and government bonds.

The investment process is active, which leverages the team’s research expertise and long experience. The portfolio invests across a wide universe of Australian debt securities and the Portfolio Manager and team seek to identify quality credit investments while actively managing risk.

Targeting regular income

Perpetual's Active Fixed Interest Fund - Class A aims to provide a regular quarterly income stream.

Broad diversification

The Fund has access to a wide universe of debt instruments to maximise return opportunities and diversify risk.

Deep analysis

Security selection decisions about underpinned up by the credit team’s deep analysis. Company research from Perpetual’s equity team is also leveraged.

Long credit experience

The credit team is one of Australia’s most experienced.

October 28, 2024. We refer to the distributions posted on the Distribution History webpage between 16 August 2024 to 19 September 2024. During this period, the Distribution History for this product incorrectly displayed duplicates of September 2023 and December 2023 distribution records for the 2024 Financial Year, and resulted in an inaccurate subtotal for the 2024 Financial Year. This has been rectified and the correct distribution history has been displayed on our website from 19 September 2024. The Distribution data summary included in this product page was not impacted.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please email us at investments@perpetual.com.au or phone us on 1800 022 033 during business hours (Sydney time).

Pricing & Performance

Fund Commencement: January 2017

Unit Pricing

As at
Entry 0.970
Exit 0.969
View Price History

Distributions

Frequency
Quarterly
Cents per Unit
0.326
Reinvestment Price
0.985
View Distribution History

Performance

As at

Returns

As at
Growth (%) Distribution (%) Total (%)
1 month 1.19% -- 1.19%
3 month 2.69% 1.02% 3.71%
6 month 2.10% 1.64% 3.74%
1 year 4.74% 2.06% 6.80%
3 year -2.33% 1.16% -1.17%
5 year -1.80% 1.79% -0.01%
10 year -- -- --

Investment Approach

Perpetual aims to enhance returns by: - diversifying the portfolio amongst different securities issued by various borrowers - actively managing for changes in market-wide and security-specific credit margins - identifying and investing in relative value within the universe of credit securities - actively managing the portfolio with respect to interest rates, swap and credit margins, and managing the portfolio's sensitivity in these. Derivatives may be used in managing the Fund.

Details & Fees

Investment Objective Aims to provide investors with regular income by investing in a portfolio of diversified fixed income securities which are predominantly corporate and government bonds; and outperform the Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0+Yr Index (before fees and taxes) over rolling three-year periods.
Minimum Suggested Timeframe 3 years or longer
Fund Manager Perpetual Investment Management Limited
Asset Class Fixed Income and Credit
Minimum Initial Investment $25,000
Minimum Initial Investment (with saving plan) $25,000 Monthly Minimum Nil
Minimum Additional Investment $2,000
Cash and investment grade securities 90 - 100%
Sub-investment grade and non rated securities 0 - 10%
Quarterly March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31
Entry 0
Exit 0
Management Fee (p.a.) 0.40%. Refer to PDS for Management Costs
Buy / Sell Spread 0.08% / 0.1%

How to Invest

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Perpetual Investment Funds feature Perpetual’s leading investment management capabilities. They are designed for individual and wholesale investors, and super fund trustees, with $25,000 or more to invest.You can also invest through investor directed portfolio services. Applications to invest in Perpetual Investment Funds can be made through the myPerpetual application portal online.

 

Before applying for a Perpetual Investment it's important to review the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), and related documents to ensure you understand how the fund works and the risks involved.

 

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Applications for additional investment to your Perpetual Fund can be done by accessing the online account portal myPerpetual, or via the post where completed additional investments form & documents should be sent to this address:

 

Perpetual Investment Funds

GPO Box 4171, Sydney NSW 2001

 

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Perpetual Investment Funds New Application

Applications for Perpetual Investment aFunds can be made via investor directed portfolio services. Financial advisers can make applications through the Perpetual application portal online, or via the post where completed application & documents should be sent to this address:

 

Before applying for a Perpetual Investment Fund, it's important to review the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and related documents to ensure you understand how the plan works and the risks involved.

 

Perpetual Investment Funds

GPO Box 4171, Sydney NSW 2001

 

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With one of Australia’s largest, most well-resourced and experienced investment teams, Perpetual offers institutional investors expertise across four major investment capabilities: Australian equities; global equities; cash, credit and fixed income; and multi asset strategies. These capabilities can be accessed via pooled investment funds or tailored mandates.

What Are The Risks?

All investments carry risk. While it is not possible to identify every risk relevant to your investment, we have provided details of the risks that may affect your investment in the relevant product disclosure statement (PDS) or offer document.

You can find PDSs and other documents in our resources section. The relevant PDS, offer documents and forms can also be found in the sections below:

Perpetual Investment Management Limited ABN 18 000 866 535 AFSL 234426 and/or Perpetual Superannuation Limited ABN 84 008 416 831 AFSL 225246 are the issuers of the Funds. you should consider the relevant Fund product disclosure statement or other offer document before deciding whether to invest. The product disclosure statements and target market determinations for the Funds are available on this website.

Returns have been calculated using exit prices after taking into account all ongoing fees, and assuming reinvestment of distributions. No allowance has been made for entry fees, exit fees or where applicable taxation. Future returns may bear no relationship to the historical information displayed. The returns shown represent past returns only and are not indicative of future returns of a Fund. Returns on a Fund can be particularly volatile in the short term and in some periods may be negative.