Perpetual Select Investments Updates
Continuous Disclosure and Important Information
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
The PDS contains detailed information about the Perpetual Select Investment Funds such as the benefits, risks and fees and charges.
PDS Notice of election for early transition to new fees and costs disclosure
Product Information Incorporated by Reference
The PDS refers to other information relevant to the product (information which is ‘incorporated by reference’) which can be found below. This incorporated information forms part of the PDS and should be read together with the main PDS document above.
Transaction costs and Buy-sell spreads
Details of current underlying specialist investment managers
Other Documents
These documents are relevant to features offered in select investment funds.
Direct Debit Request Service Agreement
Ongoing Annual fees and costs reflecting the financial year ended 30 June 2021
Privacy Policy
Perpetual’s Privacy Policy has been updated as of March 2014 to include information about how you may access and seek correction of personal information held by us, make a complaint to us if you have concerns about how we have handled your personal information, how we will deal with such complaints and whether we may disclose personal information to overseas recipients.
Product Updates
We may update information in the PDS by issuing a supplementary PDS. However, if product updates are not materially adverse we will notify you via our website. Any updates should be read together with the main PDS document above.
Continuous Disclosure
The below table provides updates to the PDS, significant events and important information. Any updates should be read together with the PDS.
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| 5 October 2021 |
PDS Update: Inquiries and complaints |
There are legislative changes applying to complaints handling effective from 5 October 2021. The information in the PDS in relation to inquiries and complaints is now updated as set out in the flyer. |
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| 1 October 2021 |
Changes to SRM |
The Standard Risk Measure (SRM) for Funds may change over time for various reasons, including as a result of reviews of the underlying capital market assumptions that are used in their calculation and future changes to asset allocations by the investment manager. Effective 1 October, the SRM has changed, following an annual review.
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| 17 September 2021 |
Updated disclosure regarding distribution payments |
Updates to disclosure to clarify that distribution components may include capital. |
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| 1 April 2021 |
Changes to Buy/Sell Spreads |
Effective 1 April 2021, the buy/sell spreads for the funds have changed. Please see “Transaction costs and Buy/Sell Spreads document.” |
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| 29 January 2021 |
Update to Specialist Investment Manager Information |
The details of current underlying specialist investment managers have been updated. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 7 December 2020 |
Update to Specialist Investment Manager Information |
The details of current underlying specialist investment managers have been updated. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 17 September 2020 |
Termination of Investment options |
Effective 21 October we are terminating the following investment options within the Select Investment Funds:
Please refer to the letter on Select Investment Funds terminations for more information. |
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| 7 September 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost and buy/sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 7 September 2020 information now available. Buy/sell spread for Select Growth Fund has been amended from 0.30%/0.00% to 0.27%/0.00%. |
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| 3 September 2020 |
Changes to Select Investment Management Fees, Rebates and investment options. |
Effective 1 October 2020, there are a number of changes to:
Please read the flyers on Changes to Investments and Changes to Fees for more information. Download the Select Investment Funds Changes letter. |
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| 10 July 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 10 July 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 3 July 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 3 July 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 19 June 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 19 June 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 29 May 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 29 May 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 24 April 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 24 April 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 20 March 2020 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 20 March 2020 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 25 October 2019 |
Fixed Income Currency Hedging |
From 25 October 2019 - The investment approach of the Perpetual Select Fixed Income Fund has been amended to include active currency management of international assets. |
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| 30 June 2019 |
PDS Reissue |
The Select Investment Funds PDS has been reissued. The PDS contains updated fees and costs information. In addition, it also contains changes in the basis for calculating the base fee rebate from month-end balance to average daily balance over the quarter. |
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| 29 May 2019 |
Base fee rebate calculation |
From 1 July 2019, the basis for calculating the base fee rebate will be changed from month-end balance to average daily balance over the quarter. For the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2019, we have calculated the base management fee rebate based on the average daily balance instead of the month end balance. Investors that were negatively impacted by this error you will be notified separately and will receive a compensation payment. You can download the ‘Changes to calculation of the base fee rebate” letter that was sent to investors here. |
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| 1 May 2019 |
Reduction of Buy spreads |
Effective from 1 May 2019, the buy spreads of the following funds will be reduced:
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| 31 January 2019 |
Introduction of tobacco securities investment restriction on Australian Shares & International Shares asset classes |
From 31 January 2019, for Australian and international shares asset classes, Perpetual will not permit its specialist investment managers (including itself) to invest in companies that are manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products as defined under Global Industry Classification Standard 302030 as a Tobacco company. For all asset classes other than Australian and international shares, we consider a specialist investment managers’ policies and practices regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and labour standards only to the extent that they may have an effect on the manager’s style and investment performance. We will neither choose nor exclude a specialist investment manager solely on their ESG and labour standards policies/practices (except for managers of Australian and international shares), but such policies/practices will contribute to our overall assessment of the manager’s style and capability. |
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| 1 October 2018 |
PDS Update: Transaction Cost & Buy/Sell spread document updated |
This incorporated document has now been replaced with 30 June 2018 information now available. For further information see attached flyer. |
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| 11 September 2018 |
Change to external dispute resolution (EDR) scheme |
From 1 November 2018, there will be a change to the EDR scheme which unresolved complaints can be referred to. Please refer to this transitional disclosure for more information. |
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| 1 February 2018 |
Reduction of Buy spreads |
Effective from 1 February 2018, the buy spreads of the following funds will be reduced:
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| 16 November 2017 |
No performance fee cap applicable for any specialist investment managers |
Effective on and from 16 December 2017, no performance-related fee cap will be applicable for any specialist investment managers of Single and Multi-sector funds (unless otherwise agreed to in the agreement between the specialist investment manager and Perpetual).
Performance-related fees are payable when a specialist investment manager outperforms a defined performance hurdle (benchmark), for a defined period of time. The maximum performance-related fee rate up to 25% of outperformance for specialist investment managers (other than for alternative assets) still remains. For more details, refer to the Performance-related fees section in PDS. |
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1 November 2017 |
PDS Update: |
Effective 1 November 2017, some investment options will have
The investment options with changes are: Multi asset Conservative, Diversified, Balanced, Growth, Geared High Growth Single asset Real Estate, International Share Fund This follows our strategic asset allocation review. Read the attached notice for details about these changes. |
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29 September 2017 |
AMIT Regime |
Perpetual has elected into the Attribution Managed Investment Trust (AMIT) Regime for the year ending 30 June 2018 and subsequent years. |
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22 June 2017 |
Changes to the constitution of the Fund/s |
Perpetual has made changes to the constitutions for our Funds to allow them to be operated as Attribution Managed Investment Trusts. These changes will apply only from the time an election is made by Perpetual to adopt the AMIT regime for the relevant Fund. We will provide notification on the website if/when this election occurs. |
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1 June 2017 |
PDS update |
The replacement Select Investment Funds PDS has been issued. It contains updated information in relation to your investment including:
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26 May 2017 |
Proposed Changes to the constitution of the Fund/s |
Perpetual is proposing making changes to the constitutions for our Funds to allow them to be operated as Attribution Managed Investment Trusts (AMIT) Find out more here |
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17 March 2017 |
Perpetual Select Investment Funds – Fixed Income: Change of buy/sell spread |
Effective 18 April 2017, the buy/sell spread for the fixed income investment option will change as follows:
The new buy/sell spread reflects increased transaction costs involved with fixed income investment option. The increased spread will not impact your current investments, only future investments and switches into fixed income investment option. The buy/sell spread for all other investment options remain unchanged. Buy/sell spreads may change from time to time. The current buy-sell spread for each investment option is available on this page under the section: Product Information Incorporated by Reference |
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From 22 December 2016 |
Investment changes to the single-asset class investment options of Select Investments |
From 22 December 2016, we are making changes to the following single-asset class investment options:
The changes will impact investment guidelines by:
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22 November 2016 |
Investment changes to the single-asset class investment options of Select Investments |
Effective 22 December 2016, we are making changes to the following single-asset class investment options:
The changes will impact investment guidelines by:
There are no changes made to the targets, benchmarks and investment objectives of these investment options. |
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22 November 2016 |
Maximum Performance-related fees of specialist investment managers |
The maximum performance-related fee payable to specialist investment managers and when they are payable is described in the ‘Additional Explanation of Fees and Costs’ section in the PDS. For specialist investment managers other than for alternative assets, the maximum performance-related fee rate will change from a maximum of 15.4% of that outperformance, to up to 25% of outperformance. This change will be effective from the issue date of the next PDS, expected to be issued in April 2017. |
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4 August 2016 |
Investment Manager Review |
Perpetual has conducted a review of its specialist investment managers in the Australian and international share sectors and following the review will implement the following: Changes to Australian Share Specialist Investment Manager Allocations From 6 July 2016, a number of changes were made to the Australian Share Asset Class specialist investment managers portfolio allocations. Changes are summarised as follows:
The changes to portfolio allocations will result in some differences to specialist investment manager performance fee arrangements. The specialist investment managers may be entitled to performance fee arrangements that differ, and in some cases may be higher. Any increases to performance fee arrangements will take effect no sooner than 30 days after the date of this update. The ranges of specialist investment manager performance fees align with those disclosed in the PDS. The above changes will flow on to any multi sector funds that invest in Australian shares. Changes to International Share Specialist Investment Managers In August 2016, a number of changes will be made to specialist investment managers for the International Share Asset Class. Changes are summarised as follows:
Those specialist investment managers who will be appointed may be entitled to performance fee arrangements that differ from those specialist investment managers who have been terminated. In some cases the performance fee arrangements may be higher. Any increases to performance fee arrangements will take effect no sooner than 30 days after the date of this update. The ranges of specialist investment manager performance fees align with those disclosed in the PDS. The above changes will flow on to any multi sector funds that invest in International Shares. Details of the new specialist investment managers will be included here, once those managers have commenced management of the portfolios: Specialist investment managers information. |
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1 October 2015 |
Changes to investment objectives, allocations and risk level for certain investment options in Select Investment Funds |
Effective 1 October 2015, the target allocations and ranges, as well as the target objectives for some investment options have changed for the following investment options:
The risk level of the following investment options have also been updated:
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