Glossar

The factsheet is an overview sheet of a fund and summarises the most important characteristics, such as the volume, past performance, costs, risks, investment strategy, largest positions and financial ratios. Here you can subscribe to the factsheets of the Assenagon funds.

"Fonds commun de placement". An investment fund structured as a common contractual fund under Luxembourg law. Please see "Investment fund" for more detailed information.

Refers to an asset that makes a regular payment of a predetermined amount until maturity. Usually refers to government bonds, corporate bonds or fixed income funds. For more information on Assenagon Credit funds please see here.

Fixed income funds are investment funds that invest primarily in interest-bearing securities such as government or corporate bonds, covered bonds or bonds issued by credit institutions. The overview of Assenagon Credit funds can be found here.

A floater refers to interest rate securities for which the payed interest rate is usually adjusted every 30 to 90 days and are based on changes in widely accepted reference interest rates (e. g. 3 month Euribor).

The foreign exchange market is a market for trading in foreign currencies, so-called foreign exchange.

An individual financial contract which is traded bilaterally between two parties (OTC, over-the-counter) to buy or sell an asset at a specified price at a future date.

Free float represents the proportion of a company's shares that are in the hands of public investors, as opposed to shares owned by employees (e. g. senior executives), controlling investors or governments.

To cover the costs associated with investment advice, your bank (e.g. savings bank, cooperative bank, private bank) or investment and wealth advisor may charge an additional fee at the time of investment. This is usually a percentage surcharge on the net asset value.

The fund financial year is described in the prospectus and may be independent of the financial year of the capital management company and the calendar year.

Funds of funds are investment funds that do not invest their assets directly in individual shares or bonds, but in several open-ended investment funds (synonym: "target funds"). These can be either investment funds of the own investment company or investment funds of other fund managers (so-called "third-party funds"), or both. For more information on Assenagon Multi Asset funds please see here.

The fund terms define how a fund may invest. These provisions are described in the respective fund prospectus.

A method of assessing the value of a security or a company that examines the economic, financial and other qualitative and quantitative factors associated with it.

A future is a contract for the purchase or sale of a specific asset at a predetermined price at a specific time in the future. In contrast to forward contracts, all futures transactions are settled on an exchange.