Global Shares Income Fund – P Class

About the Fund - Class P Units

The Plato Global Shares Income Fund is a long-only equity income fund that aims to maximise retirement income for pension phase investors and SMSFs.

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PDS - Additional Information

OBJECTIVE
The Fund aims to provide an annual yield that exceeds the yield of the MSCI World ex Australia, Net Returns Unhedged Index after fees. The Fund also aims to outperform the benchmark.
BENCHMARK
MSCI World ex Australia, Net Returns Unhedged Index.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

The Fund invests in a diverse global investment universe to actively capture an increased level of dividend income and capital appreciation via dividend run-up.

The Fund is also managed to minimise the typical risks of naïve yield strategies and avoid dividend traps.

UNIT PRICES & DISTRIBUTIONS

UNIT PRICE HISTORY

Unit prices are net of fees & do not include distributions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

DISTRIBUTION HISTORY

PLATFORM
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FEES

Minimum Initial investment: $30,000

Management costs: 0.20% p.a. (inclusive of the net effect of GST and take into account any expected Reduced Input Tax Credits (‘RITCs’))
Performance fee: 20% of the Fund’s excess return versus its Benchmark, net of the management fee
Buy/sell spread: +0.30%/-0.30%

BENEFITS

DIVERSIFICATION

• Greater access to different markets within different economic cycles

• More global stocks going ex-dividend in every month of the year

• The top 6 yielding stocks in Australia provide approximately 50% of ASX 200 income (Plato Research)

IMPROVED ASSET ALLOCATION

• Diversification across industries such as energy, electronics, software and telecommunications

• In comparison to Australian stocks, where the top dividend payers are dominated by banks and telcos (Plato Research)

• More opportunity for capital appreciated leading into ex-dividend dates (also called dividend run-up)

OTHER

• Investment expertise – access to Plato’s investment expertise and quantitative portfolio optimisation techniques;

• Regular distributions – investors in the Fund have the right to receive distributions which are usually paid monthly; and

• Income and capital growth – the potential to earn dividends from global shares and participate in any capital growth of those shares.

PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

The Fund invests a minimum of 90% in global listed entities and maximum of 10% in cash, although the Fund is intended to be fully invested with cash and futures held for liquidity purposes and to manage cashflow and investment exposure. The Fund will typically hold a minimum of 100 stocks and the holding of each stock will not be more than 3% of the Fund.

FORMS

APPLICATION FORMADDITIONAL INVESTMENT FORMAUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE FORM (INDIVIDUAL)AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE FORM (COMPANY)
CHANGE OF DETAILS FORMSWITCH FORMREDEMPTION FORMFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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