Strategy
Investment Objective
In a single offering, this fund offers global diversification across asset classes and regions of the world, tactical views expressed through portfolio reallocations, and bottom up security selection to create an actively managed global portfolio. The fund can tactically overweight and underweight asset classes from their normal allocation. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 10% of the value of its portfolio invested in Sustainable Investments, as defined by the SFDR. Additionally, we apply a proprietary responsible screen (exclusion list). The manager is not constrained by the fund’s benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.
Investment Approach
- The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation and income. The Fund blends active security selection and asset allocation positioning in a broadly diversified global portfolio of stocks, bonds, cash, and alternatives across sectors, regions, and market capitalizations.
- The Fund’s broad opportunity set includes developed and emerging market equities, a wide range of global developed and emerging market fixed income strategies across sectors and credit quality, plus various diversifying strategies providing exposure to hedge funds, currency hedging, real asset equities, and an equity index-option strategy.
- The Fund has the ability to utilize tactical asset allocation within defined ranges for each asset class or sector to potentially capitalize on a variety of global market environments.
- Sources of value added:
- Portfolio Design: Strategic allocation that is diversified across asset classes and sectors with low correlations to dampen volatility and includes investments that have the potential to enhance long-term returns.
- Tactical Asset Allocation: The Asset Allocation Committee makes tactical decisions to overweight or underweight asset classes and sectors based on a 6-18 month investment horizon.
- Fundamentally-Driven Security Selection: Underlying portfolio managers select individual securities leveraging the T. Rowe Price global research platform of approximately 200 fundamental equity and credit analysts.
- The Fund is subject to the unique risks of international investing, including unfavorable currency exchange rates and political or economic uncertainty abroad. To the extent the fund has investments in emerging market countries; it will be subject to abrupt and severe price declines. The portfolio’s investments in alternative investments and hedge funds are difficult to value and monitor when compared with more traditional investments, and may increase the fund’s liquidity risks. Diversification cannot assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. Derivatives are used in the fund for selective market exposures.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
The Funds are sub-funds of the T. Rowe Price Funds SICAV, a Luxembourg investment company with variable capital which is registered with Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and which qualifies as an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities (“UCITS”). Full details of the objectives, investment policies and risks are located in the prospectus which is available with the key investor information documents and/or key information document (KID) in English and in an official language of the jurisdictions in which the Funds are registered for public sale, together with the articles of incorporation and the annual and semi-annual reports (together “Fund Documents”). Any decision to invest should be made on the basis of the Fund Documents which are available free of charge from the local representative, local information/paying agent or from authorised distributors. They can also be found along with a summary of investor rights in English at www.troweprice.com. The Management Company reserves the right to terminate marketing arrangements.
Hedged share classes (denoted by 'h') utilise investment techniques to mitigate currency risk between the underlying investment currency(ies) of the fund and the currency of the hedged share class. The costs of doing so will be borne by the share class and there is no guarantee that such hedging will be effective.
Before deciding to invest in the fund, you should read the offering document/prospectus (including its investment objectives, policies and any risk warnings) which are available and may be obtained from any appointed distributors.
The specific securities identified and described in this website do not represent all of the securities purchased, sold, or recommended for the sub-fund and no assumptions should be made that the securities identified and discussed were or will be profitable.
A full list of the currently issued Share Classes including Distributing, Hedged, and Accumulating Categories may be obtained, free of charge and upon request, from the registered office of the Company.
Benchmark: Investors may use the benchmark to compare the fund’s performance. The benchmark has been selected because it is similar to the investment universe used by the investment manager and therefore acts as an appropriate comparator. The investment manager is not constrained by any country, sector and/or individual security weightings relative to the benchmark and has complete freedom to invest in securities that do not form part of the benchmark.
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Risks
Typical Investor
The fund could be an appropriate part of your overall investment strategy if you want to diversify your portfolio by adding a fund with investments in both international and domestic stocks and bonds and you are comfortable with the risks that accompany international investments (including the special risks associated with investing in emerging markets).