€500 Million in Five Years

• The actively managed Assenagon Funds Value Size Global has achieved a fund volume of over 500 million euros within five years.
• The innovative investment strategy specifically combines the factors "value" and "size" and has achieved a cumulative total return of 73% since its launch.
• The special feature: thanks to 250 equally weighted positions, genuine global diversification away from the major index heavyweights is achieved.

In erratic times like these, many investors are looking for real diversification beyond the dominant US tech giants in the global equity indices and the associated cluster risks. The Assenagon Funds Value Size Global invests worldwide in cheaply valued shares, so-called value stocks, as well as in shares of companies in the small cap sector. The actively managed strategy, which is based on a systematic factor investing approach, has been so successful that the fund has broken through the significant EUR 500 million mark in fund volume just in time for its fifth anniversary. Since its launch in June 2020, the equity fund has achieved a cumulative total return of 73% and an average annual return of over 11% (share class R; as at June 30, 2025).

Smart diversification and specialized risk management

"To avoid single stock and cluster risks, we invest in 250 equally weighted stocks from eleven sectors and currently over 20 countries worldwide. Only 20 percent of our portfolio overlaps with the MSCI World," says Daniel Jakubowski, Head of Equity Portfolio Management at Assenagon. And this at a time when the concentration of large tech stocks in the global equity indices has reached an all-time high.

"The selection of the 250 individual stocks is not based on subjective selection criteria, but on a quantitative process in which various variables are included," explains Jakubowski. For example, risk management is specifically geared towards value & size strategies. Here, factors such as debt, profitability, momentum and individual share risk play a central role in order to avoid value traps or other pitfalls, for example.

Matthias Kunze, Head of Distribution at Assenagon, adds: "With the Assenagon Funds Value Size Global, we offer both institutional and private investors a global equity fund that brings real diversification to the portfolio. It is all the more pleasing to see that the fund's performance over the various market phases is also reflected in continuous inflows of funds."

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Munich/Luxembourg, July 15, 2025