Guinness Asset Management - Global Equity Income Fund

Guinness Global Equity Income Fund

Introduction

Investment Case

Fund Facts

Prices

The Guinness Global Equity Income Fund seeks to provide investors with both income and long-term capital appreciation. The fund invests in companies that are attractively valued, that are well placed to steadily grow their dividend over the long-term and with a history of generating consistently high returns on capital. The fund seeks to provide a dividend yield higher than the global market average. The fund is managed by Ian Mortimer and Matthew Page.

Quality before yield...

Our investment process highlights unusually persistent cash generators. It’s a sign of rare quality for a company to achieve top quartile returns on their capital every year for ten years. That’s where our portfolio starts...

Off the radar dividend payers

...which gives us a very different pool of off-the-radar dividend growth stocks compared to traditional income funds.

News Update

Matthew Page comments on global equities for Investment Week

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New share class

0.75% annual fee

RDR-ready share class: annual management fee just 0.75%, no initial fee.

Our new ‘X’ share class is currently open to all investors in the Guinness Global Equity Income Fund, with a minimum investment of £5,000 (or equivalent).*

The current total annual expense ratio on the ‘X’ share class is 1.24%.

How To Invest

*As part of the introduction of the ‘X’ class, Guinness Asset Management are temporarily waiving its minimum investment of £5 million. The ‘X’ class will also be available via investment platforms; investments made via platforms are not subject to Guinness Asset Management’s minimum investment levels.

1st year anniversary

The Fund's quality stocks have delivered strong returns in its first year.

See the Fund’s returns in our Sales Summary

Literature

The Guinness Global Equity Income Fund is an equity fund. Investors should be willing and able to assume the risks of equity investing. The value of the Fund’s portfolio changes daily and can be affected by changes in currencies, interest rates, general market conditions and other political, social and economic developments, as well as specific matters relating to the companies in whose securities the fund invests. Investment in the Fund carries with it a degree of risk and investors should read the risk factors section in the prospectus before investing.

The full Fund documentation contains more complete and detailed information of risk, fees, charges and expenses that are to be borne by an investor. The documentation should be read carefully before investing. The full documentation needed to make an investment, including the Prospectus, the Simplified Prospectus and the Application Form are available, free of charge, from the Manager: Capita Financial Managers (Ireland) Limited, Montague House, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2 Ireland or the Promoter and Investment Manager: Guinness Asset Management Ltd, 14 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AA. Documentation is also available from the How to Invest page on this website.

Guinness Global Equity Income Fund is a sub-fund of Guinness Asset Management Funds PLC (the “Company”), an open-ended umbrella-type investment company, incorporated in Ireland and authorised and supervised by the Central Bank of Ireland. The Fund has been approved by the Financial Services Authority for sale in the UK. The Company and the Fund have been recognised in the UK by the FSA pursuant to section 264 of the FSMA. Guinness Asset Management Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

The value of this investment and any income arising from it can fall as well as rise. This will be as a result of market, currency and exchange rate fluctuations as well as other factors both directly and indirectly related to the stocks in which it is invested.