Fixed Income ETF of the Year 2024

Goldman Sachs Access UK Gilts 1-10 Year UCITS ETF has been recognized as Fixed Income ETF of the Year at the ETF Stream Awards 2024. The awards recognize industry participants driving innovation within the European ETF market and those that have been successful in delivering positive outcomes to clients.
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- Market risk - the value of assets in the Portfolio is typically dictated by a number of factors, including the confidence levels of the market in which they are traded.
- Operational risk - material losses to the Portfolio may arise as a result of human error, system and/or process failures, inadequate procedures or controls.
- Liquidity risk - the Portfolio may not always find another party willing to purchase an asset that the Portfolio wants to sell which could impact the Portfolio's ability to meet redemption requests on demand.
- Exchange rate risk - changes in exchange rates may reduce or increase the returns an investor might expect to receive independent of the performance of such assets. If applicable, investment techniques used to attempt to reduce the risk of currency movements (hedging), may not be effective. Hedging also involves additional risks associated with derivatives.
- Custodian risk - insolvency, breaches of duty of care or misconduct of a custodian or sub-custodian responsible for the safekeeping of the Portfolio's assets can result in loss to the Portfolio.
- Interest rate risk – when interest rates rise, bond prices fall, reflecting the ability of investors to obtain a more attractive rate of interest on their money elsewhere. Bond prices are therefore subject to movements in interest rates which may move for a number of reasons, political as well as economic.
- Credit risk – the failure of a counterparty or an issuer of a financial asset held within the Portfolio to meet its payment obligations will have a negative impact on the Portfolio.
- Derivatives risk - derivative instruments are highly sensitive to changes in the value of the underlying asset that they are based on. Certain derivatives may result in losses greater than the amount originally invested.
- Counterparty risk - a party that the Portfolio transacts with may fail to meet its obligations which could cause losses.
- Index tracking error risk - The performance of the Strategy may not generally follow and may be very different from the performance of the Index. The anticipated tracking error has been calculated using historical data and therefore may not capture all factors that will impact a Strategy's actual performance against its reference index.
Complete information on the risks of investing in the Fund are set out in the Fund’s prospectus.
The prospectus, the Key Information Document (KID) or UK Key Investor Information Document (KIID) (as applicable), information on sustainability-related aspects of the fund (such as the SFDR classification), and other legally required documents relating to the fund (containing information about the fund, the costs and the risks involved) are available on www.gsam.com/responsible-investing in the relevant languages of the countries where the fund is registered or notified for marketing purposes. Goldman Sachs Asset Management B.V. may decide to terminate the arrangements made for the marketing of the fund in accordance with article 93a UCITS Directive and article 32a AIFM Directive as implemented in Dutch law in article 2:121ca and 2:124.0a Wft. Information about investor rights and collective redress mechanisms are available on www.gsam.com/responsible-investing. Investment sustains risk. The decision to invest in a fund should take into account all the characteristics, objectives, and associated risks of a fund as described in the prospectus. The investment promoted concerns the acquisition of units or shares in a fund, and not in an underlying asset in which the fund invests. Please note that the value of any investment may rise or fall and that past performance is not indicative of future results and should in no event be deemed as such. A return on investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuation.
Fund Characteristics
1. Investment Objective
The Sub-Fund seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses to the performance of the FTSE Goldman Sachs UK Gilts 1-10 Years Index
2. Investment Policy
The Sub-Fund is passively managed and its investment policy is to track the performance of the Index (or such other index determined by the Directors from time to time as being able to track substantially the same market as the Index and which is considered by the Directors to be an appropriate index for the Sub-Fund to track, in accordance with the Prospectus), as closely as possible, regardless of whether the Index level rises or falls, while seeking to minimise as far as possible the tracking error between the Sub-Fund’s performance and that of the Index. Any determination by the Directors that the Sub-Fund should track another index at any time shall be subject to Shareholder approval and where relevant, the provision of reasonable notice to Shareholders to enable any
Shareholders who wish to do so to redeem their Shares prior to implementation of this change. In addition, the Supplement will be updated accordingly. The Index is a rules-based index that is designed to measure the performance of UK Government bonds (Gilts) with maturities greater than 12 months. The Index is a custom index that is owned and calculated by the Index Provider, and is based on the 1-10 Year UK Gilts contained in the FTSE UK Government Bond Index (the “Base Index”) using concepts developed with Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. The Base Index can include GBP denominated government and government-sponsored bonds that are rated at least BBB- by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”) or Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.(“Moody’s”). Minimum issue size is 2 billion GBP. Minimum maturity is 1 year and maximum maturity is 10 years. The components of the Index are subject to carry and roll optimisation. Carry and roll optimisation refers to maximising expected returns within a specific yield curve by overweighting steeper parts of the curve and underweighting other parts. A steeper curve provides greater potential to generate return from roll down through the passage of time. In order to optimise for carry and roll opportunities the Index Provider, while seeking to keep overall rate risk consistent with the Base Index, may overweight certain nodes of the curve and underweight elsewhere on the curve compared with the Base Index. Overall duration exposure is intended to match that of the Base Index after optimisation.
The Index is rebalanced (i) monthly on the last business day of each month, to account for changes in maturities, corporate actions or ratings migration. Further information on the Index can be found at https://research.ftserussell.com/products/downloads/FTSE_Goldman_Sachs_UK_Gilts_1_10_Years_Index_Ground_Rules.pdf and https://www.ftserussell.com/analytics/factsheets/home/constituentsweights. The Investment Manager uses a representative sampling strategy to manage the Sub-Fund. “Representative sampling” is an indexing strategy in which the Sub-Fund invests in a representative
sample of constituent securities that has a collective investment profile similar to that of the Index. The securities selected for investment by the Sub-Fund are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment characteristics, fundamental characteristics and liquidity measures similar to those of the Index. The Sub-Fund may or may not hold all of the securities in the Index. Please see the section of the Prospectus titled “Currency Hedging at Portfolio Level” for a description of the hedging techniques which may be employed by the Investment Manager in hedging currency exposure.
3. Type of Assets in Which Fund May Invest
The securities in which the Sub-Fund invests include government and government-sponsored bonds which are of investment grade and may be fixed or floating rate. The Sub-Fund will invest at least 80% of its Net Asset Value in such securities. In exceptional circumstances, the Sub-Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in instruments which are primarily listed on Recognised Markets that are not included in the Index but which may have similar characteristics and which the Investment Manager believes will help the Sub-Fund track the Index. These investments may include cash and cash equivalents including money market funds. Subject to a maximum of 10% of Net Asset Value, the Sub-Fund may invest in shares of other regulated, openended collective investment schemes, including money market funds and ETFs, as described under “Investment in other Collective Investment Schemes” in the “Investment Objectives and Policies” section of the Prospectus, where the objectives of such funds are consistent with the objective of the Sub-Fund. Such funds may be advised, sponsored or otherwise serviced by the Investment Manager or an affiliate.
4. Actively or Not Actively Managed Against Benchmark
Not Actively Managed
5. Leverage
N/A
6. SFDR Classification
Article 6
7. Risks
The risk of this fund is set at 4 (on a scale of 1 - lower risk to 7 - higher risk). This risk profile is based on historical data and may not be a reliable indication of the future risk profile of the Sub-Fund. The risk category shown is not guaranteed and may change over time. The lowest category does not mean risk free. It is possible that a sub-fund stated to have a lower risk profile may in fact fall in value more than a sub-fund with a higher risk profile. The Sub-Fund is in category 4 as it mostly invests in fixed income securities which typically experience lower levels of price fluctuation than shares and similar instruments. The capital is not guaranteed.
Important Information
Award given on November 28, 2024.
The ETF Stream Awards 2024 Winner Fixed Income ETF of the Year was awarded on November 28, 2024 for January 1, 2024 through November 28, 2024, award does not represent any compensated endorsement.
Exchange-Traded Funds are subject to risks similar to those of stocks. Investment returns may fluctuate and are subject to market volatility, so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, or sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. ETFs may yield investment results that, before expenses, generally correspond to the price and yield of a particular index. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of the index can be fully matched.
Investments in fixed income securities are subject to the risks associated with debt securities generally, including credit, liquidity, interest rate, prepayment and extension risk. Bond prices fluctuate inversely to changes in interest rates. Therefore, a general rise in interest rates can result in the decline in the bond’s price. The value of securities with variable and floating interest rates are generally less sensitive to interest rate changes than securities with fixed interest rates. Variable and floating rate securities may decline in value if interest rates do not move as expected. Conversely, variable and floating rate securities will not generally rise in value if market interest rates decline. Credit risk is the risk that an issuer will default on payments of interest and principal. Credit risk is higher when investing in high yield bonds, also known as junk bonds. Prepayment risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may pay off principal more quickly than originally anticipated. Extension risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may pay off principal more slowly than originally anticipated. All fixed income investments may be worth less than their original cost upon redemption or maturity.
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Capital is at risk.
As a UCITS ETF, a Sub-Fund’s Shares purchased on the Secondary Market cannot usually be sold directly back to the Sub-Fund by investors who are not Authorised Participants. Generally, investors who are not Authorised Participants must buy and sell shares on a Secondary Market with the assistance of an intermediary (e.g. a stockbroker) and may incur fees and additional taxes in doing so. In addition, as the market price at which the Shares are traded on the Secondary Market may differ from the Net Asset Value per Share, investors may pay more than the then current Net Asset Value when buying shares and may receive less than the current Net Asset Value when selling them.
(CBI UCITS Regs 2015, Regulation 84)
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