The Fund is classified as a financial product under Article 8 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The Fund promotes environmental or social characteristics but does not have a sustainable investment objective. The Fund integrates ESG factors and risk in the investment process alongside traditional factors. Detailed information on the sustainability related disclosures of the Fund can be found in the Template Pre-contractual disclosure (annex of the prospectus) on https://www.gsam.com/responsible-investing/en-INT/non-professional/funds/documents. The fund invests in bonds and money market instruments issued mainly in US dollars by Asian issuers. The issuers of these bonds and money market instruments are located in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, India, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. Issuers from other Asian-Pacific countries may also be taken into consideration. The fund may also invest in Chinese onshore debt securities through Bond Connect, a market facilitating investment to the Chinese bond market. The portfolio is diversified across countries, sectors and instruments. Unhedged we aim to beat the performance of our benchmark JP Morgan Asia Credit (JACI) Index, measured over a period of three years. The benchmark is a broad representation of the investment universe. The fund is actively managed with a strong focus on debt issued in hard currency. We actively manage the fund with a focus on issuer selection, based on the research and recommendations of our credit analyst team. The portfolio is diversified across countries, sectors and instruments. The portfolio composition can materially deviate from the benchmark. There is no benchmark for this specific hedged share class as we apply a currency hedging strategy. By hedging this share class we aim to exchange the base currency of the sub-fund (US dollar) with the base currency of this share class South African rand (ZAR). A currency hedge consists of taking an offsetting position in another currency. You can sell your participation in this fund on each (working) day on which the value of the units is calculated, which for this fund occurs daily. The fund aims at providing you with a regular dividend.