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February 1, 2010

Closure of New Subscriptions for Schroder AS Commodity Fund
We have been informed by Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Limited on the closure of new subscriptions for the Schroder Alternative Solutions Commodity Fund.

by FSM

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We have been informed by Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Limited on the closure of new subscriptions for the Schroder Alternative Solutions Commodity Fund (the “Fund”).

The affected funds on FSM platform are:

Schroder AS Commodity Fd SGD A Acc
Schroder AS Commo EUR A Acc
Schroder AS Commo USD A Acc

The reason for the closure is that the size of the Fund has reached the limit at which it may not be effectively managed, given the current capacity of commodity futures markets.

The limit is determined at USD10 billion across the range of 3 products – Commodities, Agriculture and Gold & Metals. The closure is to protect the integrity of the products so as to ensure that the Fund’s ability to achieve its performance objectives is not compromised by its size.

As such, Fundsupermart (FSM) will stop accepting new buy/switch-buy orders for the affected funds with effect from 22 February 2010. The last day to put through the transactions will be 19 February 2010, 3pm.

 

How will this affect existing FSM unit holders?

Existing unit holders may continue to hold the units in the Fund. No action is required.

Existing unit holders would continue to enjoy the performance of the Fund going forward and do not have to worry about the fund size becoming too big which may affect the future performance.

Existing unit holders may sell or switch-sell the Fund at any time.

For existing unit holders who have existing Regular Savings Plan (RSP) arrangement for the fund, the RSP will be terminated after February’s deduction.

For more information, please refer to the following communication letter from Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Limited dated 25 January 2010.

If you require any clarification, please call us at 6557-2853 or send an e-mail to clienthelp@fundsupermart.com.

 

 


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