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Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund

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Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund

UCITS Fund | Fixed Income

Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund

SFDR Classification | Article 8

Overview
Best ideas portfolio of high yielding, quality-biased credit opportunities in Asia with a strong sustainability profile and reduced carbon footprint

Why Invest

Strong Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Asia’s macroeconomic profile is supported by robust growth coupled with increasing focus on environmental and societal goals, creating opportunity for quality, active, ESG investors

A Robust, Active Research Process

Combines bottom-up analysis with proprietary coverage of Asian countries and integration of ESG factors into the fund’s fundamental investment analysis with a top-down asset allocation framework

Experienced, Stable and Well-Resourced Team

Managed by a well-established investment team with a long-term track record in managing EMD strategies and a multi-site set-up to ensure local perspective is incorporated

This is a marketing communication in respect of the Neuberger Berman Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund. Please refer to the fund prospectus and offering documents, including the Key Information Document (“KID”) or Key Investor Information Document (“KIID”) as applicable, before making any final investment decisions. Investors should note that by making an investment they will own shares in the fund, and not the underlying assets.

The fund complies with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (the “SFDR”) and is classified as an Article 8 SFDR fund. Neuberger Berman believes that Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) factors, like any other factor, should be incorporated in a manner appropriate for the specific asset class, investment objective and style of each investment strategy.

Key Risks

Market Risk: The risk of a change in the value of a position as a result of underlying market factors, including among other things, the overall performance of companies and the market perception of the global economy.

Liquidity Risk: The risk that the fund may be unable to sell an investment readily at its fair market value. In extreme market conditions this can affect the fund’s ability to meet redemption requests upon demand.

Emerging Markets Risk: Emerging markets are likely to bear higher risk due to a possible lack of adequate financial, legal, social, political and economic structures, protection and stability as well as uncertain tax positions which may lead to lower liquidity. The NAV of the fund may experience medium to high volatility due to lower liquidity and the availability of reliable information, as well as due to the fund's investment policies or portfolio management techniques.

Credit Risk: The risk that bond issuers may fail to meet their interest repayments, or repay debt, resulting in temporary or permanent losses to the fund.

Interest Rate Risk: The risk of interest rate movements affecting the value of fixed-rate bonds.

Derivatives Risk: The fund is permitted to use certain types of financial derivative instruments (including certain complex instruments). This may increase the fund’s leverage significantly which may cause large variations in the value of your share. Investors should note that the fund may achieve its investment objective by investing principally in Financial Derivative Instruments (FDI). There are certain investment risks that apply in relation to the use of FDI. The fund’s use of FDI can involve significant risks of loss.

Counterparty Risk: The risk that a counterparty will not fulfil its payment obligation for a trade, contract or other transaction, on the due date.

Operational Risk: The risk of direct or indirect loss resulting from inadequate or failed processes, people and systems including those relating to the safekeeping of assets or from external events.

Concentration Risk: The fund's investments may be concentrated in a small number of investments and its performance may therefore be more variable than the performance of a more diversified fund.

Sustainable Risk: The fund may focus on investments in companies that relate to certain sustainable development themes and demonstrate adherence to environmental, social and corporate governance practices. This may mean the universe of securities from which the fund can invest in may be smaller than that of other funds and may underperform the market as a result.

Currency Risk: Investors who subscribe in a currency other than the base currency of the fund are exposed to currency risk. Fluctuations in exchange rates may affect the return on investment. Where past performance is shown it is based on the share class to which this webpage relates. If the currency of this share class is different from your local currency, then you should be aware that due to exchange rate fluctuations the performance shown may increase or decrease if converted into your local currency.

 

For full information on the risks please refer to the fund prospectus and offering documents, including the KID or KIID, as applicable.

Performance and Exposures
ESG
Fund Facts

The ongoing charge figure (incl. management fee) is based on the annual expenses for the period ending 31 December 2023.

The fund’s benchmark name shown here may be abbreviated. Please refer to the supplement for the full benchmark name.

Portfolio Management Team
Nish Popat
Senior Portfolio Manager
31 Years of Industry Experience
11 Years with Neuberger Berman
Prashant Singh, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager
21 Years of Industry Experience
11 Years with Neuberger Berman
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA
Portfolio Manager
12 Years of Industry Experience
2 Years with Neuberger Berman
Nish Popat, Senior Portfolio Manager
Nish Popat, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Nish is a Co-Lead Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team. Nish joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management, where he was most recently a senior portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team. Prior to that role, he was head of fixed income for the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to joining ING, Nish was the head of the fixed income trading desk at NBD Investment Bank running relative value/market-making books in Middle East debt, and before that worked in Saudi Arabia for the Saudi Holland Bank as head of fixed income and derivatives. Nish started his career in London where he held several fixed income positions.
Prashant Singh, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager
Prashant Singh, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Prashant is the Lead Portfolio Manager (Asia) on the Emerging Markets Debt team. He is responsible for managing the emerging markets debt portfolios in the Asia region, focusing on rates and currencies. Prashant joined the firm after working at ING Investment Management, where he held a similar role. Prior to that, he worked on the ING Investment Management (India) fixed income desk and was responsible for managing Indian fixed income and money market funds. Prashant graduated from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India with a BS in Mathematics and earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, specializing in Finance. Prashant has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA, Portfolio Manager
Wei Siong Cheong, CFA, Vice President, joined Neuberger Berman in 2022. Wei Siong is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team based in Singapore, responsible for both Asia and China onshore fixed income portfolios. He was previously involved in managing absolute-return portfolios, focusing on both hard-currency and local-currency Global Emerging Market strategies in a large institutional single Family Office and HSBC Singapore. Earlier in his career, he was a fixed income analyst, conducting bottom-up fundamental research across Asia Investment Grade and High Yield credits in Nikko Asset Management and an Asia-focused hedge fund, Blue Rice Investment Management. Wei Siong earned a BBA from Nanyang Technological University and has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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