EQT Tax Aware Diversified Fund - Class B

The Fund offers a diversified investment solution, aiming to provide moderate income and capital growth over the medium to long term. By investing across various asset classes such as Australian and international shares, property, fixed interest, and cash, the Fund seeks to mitigate risk through diversification.

The Fund’s investment strategy involves active management, with experienced professionals making strategic asset allocation decisions and selecting high-quality investment managers. A tax-aware approach is employed to optimise after-tax returns. Regular reporting keeps investors informed about their investment performance.

While the Fund is not benchmarked to a specific index, it targets a balanced exposure to different asset classes, aiming to deliver consistent returns over time.

The Fund is a diversified, style unaware portfolio invested in a mix of asset classes mainly via managed funds, including other Equity Trustee funds.

The Fund has exposure to assets including Australian and International shares, property, fixed interest and cash.

The Fund is suited to long-term investors seeking a diversified investment in shares, property, fixed interest and cash.

Investment Objective

The Fund is intended to provide moderate income returns and capital growth over the medium to longer term.

Benchmark

The Fund is benchmarked against a weighted index of Australian and international shares, property, fixed interest and cash indices.

The Fund is a style unaware fund (meaning that it does not attempt to follow a particular style of investing or index) that aims to provide exposure to Australian and international shares, property, fixed interest and cash. This is generally achieved by investing in other Equity Trustees Funds that are specialised by asset class as well as Funds managed by external managers. Direct asset holdings may be held from time to time.

Benefits of investing in the Fund include:

• active management of asset allocation decisions by experienced investment committee with additional review and oversight of the portfolio by the Management Investment Committee;
• a Tax Aware strategy where the investment manager will take taxation considerations into account in order to optimize after tax returns to investors including obtaining franking credits and participating in off market buy backs;
• active management within asset classes by high quality and experienced investment managers;
• potential for lower Volatility of returns due to appropriate diversification and exposure across different asset classes, geographies, investment managers & styles; and
• regular reporting to keep you up to date on your investments.

The Fund maintains an exposure to a mix of asset classes by investing predominantly via underlying funds. The asset allocations are monitored at least fortnightly and maintained within the variances from the strategic benchmarks, however if due to unforeseen events or market movements the variances from the strategic benchmark are exceeded, Equity Trustees will seek to restore the position as soon as practicable. Asset allocation decisions are undertaken by the Chief Investment Officer following review and assessment by the Asset Allocation Committee which comprises the Chief Investment Officer, Head of Equities and the Head of Fixed Income and considers a broad range of macro and micro indicators.

The Fund may directly use options, futures and other Derivatives (consistent with the Corporations Act restrictions for common funds). Derivatives are not used speculatively and, when used, Equity Trustees ensures the Fund can pay all the obligations which might result from an exposure to Derivative investments.

Asset Allocation - Underlying Funds