- Kempen
- Kempen Lux Global Property Fund Class J GBP
Kempen (Lux) Global Property Fund Class J - GBP
Profile
The Fund is managed on the basis of a bottom-up stock picking approach. The Fund's strategy is to exploit mispricings between the valuation of property companies in relation to the quality of their real estate portfolios, balance sheets, corporate governance and management capability to add value to the property portfolio.
Management team
Performance per 2021-01-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2021-01-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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1 month | -1.7 % | -1.3 % |
3 months | 6.3 % | 9.4 % |
This year | -1.7 % | -1.3 % |
2018 | -0.7 % | 0.2 % |
2019 | 20.8 % | 17.2 % |
2020 | -13.8 % | -11.8 % |
1 year (on annual basis) | -15.9 % | -14.1 % |
3 years (on annual basis) i | 2.2 % | 2.4 % |
5 years (on annual basis) i | 5.8 % | 5.2 % |
Since inception (on annual basis) i | 8.0 % | 6.6 % |
Key figures
Total fund size | EUR 170.27 M 2021-01-31 |
Share class size | GBP 0.08 M 2021-01-31 |
Number of shares | 89 2021-01-31 |
Net Asset Value i | GBP 920.80 2021-03-05 |
Turnover rate | 215.53 % |
Fund characteristics per 2021-01-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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Number of holdings | 54 | 339 |
Dividend yield i | 3.53 % | 3.96 % |
Weighted average market capitalization i | EUR 9,841 M | EUR 12,988 M |
P/E ratio i | 25.99 | |
Active share i | 75.00 % |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Developments per 2021-01-31
The first month of 2021 saw the continuation of the stability for Global real estate as markets were slightly negative. Generally, investors appear to have repositioned swiftly after the large November rally and are waiting on the beginning of the earnings season to assess how the fourth quarter has gone, and more importantly what the management teams’ outlooks will be for the path of the vaccine-led recovery.
There was yet some dispersion across the sectors with outliers on the positive side being US Retail returning 8%. This is going to be short-lived in our view (and has begun to unwind in the beginning of February) as retail based buying activity targeted stocks with high outstanding short interest such as Macerich and Tanger (+47% and +57% over the month). Japan REITs also caught a bid returning 4% over the month and the strength was broad based in the traditional sectors of office and retail. Aversely, European Residential had the weakest return at -7% with Vonovia leading the way down 8%. Whilst there was no company specific news it is possible that a large cap such as Vonovia can be targeted for generalist rotation out of real estate into other sectors. US Hotels and US Triple Net REITs dropped 5% and 4% respectively as clearly the lack of clarity on broad societal reopening has and will continue to cause for further lost net-operating-income and abatements, some of which may never come back.
During January CA Immo, a company focused on office real estate in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe received takeover offer from Starwood. Starwood already owns 30% if the company and put forward an offer price below the company reported NAV. Later in January Bloomberg reported that Aggregate holdings is considering a rival bid for the company. Our main takeaway is that in strong office markets, and for high quality assets, there is still investors’ appetite despite the current headwinds from an economic slowdown and the potential longer term impact from Working From Home.
The start of the new year saw further news in the Nordics bidding war for Entra. At the end of the month, the board of Entra formally did not recommend either of the Castellum or SBB offer to its shareholders on the basis of significantly further shareholder value remaining in Entra as a standalone company. We suspected that this may be the case as neither deal was optimal with both deals coming with significant stock components of the offering entities, thus ultimately significantly shifting the exposure to the Entra shareholder. We had sold most of our position as we found better relative value elsewhere at the end of last year. However, we did tender our Entra shares into Castellum’s offer as we believe that the strategic fit is stronger, the price is attractive and the Castellum shares offer more upside than SBB’s shares at the offer prices. To make matters more interesting, Nordic wide landlord Balder continued buying Entra and are reported to have now 25% of the outstanding shares putting them firmly in the driver’s seat of any future decisions regarding Entra.
The Kempen real estate investment strategy strikes the balance between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Through application of data-analysis technology our Real Estate Team collects over 20 million relevant data points for 200,000 real estate buildings around the globe, processing this quantitative data in our data infrastructure and turning it into valuable fundamental investment information. The continuous increase in available data helps us make better assessments of the quality, value and risk of each real estate investment. This leads to better investment decisions and results in higher investment returns at lower risk for our clients.
Next to the quantitative approach the investment strategy contains three key qualitative parameters that determine the warranted valuation: management added value, balance sheet strength and ESG. The portfolio managers score each company covered on these three parameters. Companies that excel in ESG for example will be assigned a higher score and hence the warranted valuation for an investment increases.
Portfolio construction of the Strategy is based on cluster neutrality. The Global portfolio has 18 clusters defined as homogeneous groups of real estate companies with similar underlying currency exposure. Examples are Australia, US Offices and Switzerland. The portfolio weight of each cluster is approximately equal to the cluster’s benchmark weight. This ensures a diversified portfolio and neutralizes currency and macro-economic exposure versus the benchmark. The Fund assigns its risk budget on the real estate portfolio level only.
ESG is of high importance to our investment process. During January we engaged with the election committee of the board of Nordic office and logistics landlord Castellum. We expressed concern over the nomination of Rutger Arnhult as chairman of the board after the issue had been promptly raised by two members of the election committee. As we have mentioned previously, the Nordics score below the global average on our governance score which directly affects our proprietary company score for each vehicle and thus lowers the price we are willing to pay for a company, all else equal. In that context, Castellum currently scores the highest based on what was an exemplary diverse and professional board with no conflicts of interest and strong practices of transparency. With the nomination of Rutger Arnhult, we raise issue of potential conflicts of interest (having been recently CEO of Klovern, a competitor of Castellum) with some questionable strategic directions for the shareholders of that vehicle. We also raise issues of Mr. Arnhult being over-boarded and potential excessive influence over minority shareholders by quick nominations of directors from his inner circle. We urge other shareholders of Castellum to support the alternative board proposal by current but soon retiring chairwoman Charlotte Stromberg to help preserve the objectivity and balance of the board.
During January we made several changes to the portfolio. In US retail we took advantage of the rally in lesser quality/higher leveraged retail and trimmed our position in Site Centers towards Federal Realty and Weingarten. All the trading in this cluster has been in strip centers as we have kept our exposure to malls at zero for some time. In US logistics and storage we began trimming Americold in favor of high quality coastal urban logistics landlord Terreno Realty. We also sold part of Public Storage and reinvested the proceeds in Extra Space Storage purely as a result of share price moves. In US Healthcare we continued our switch into large-cap Welltower from Healthcare Trust of America. We adjusted some of our assumptions to price in a stronger recovery from a senior housing business which has been materially hurt from the pandemic. However, with the vaccine news, and the marginal improvements to our numbers the stock has proved to be attractively priced again at this point. In Canada we sold our position in multi-family REIT Killam Properties as the company outperformed the market and reinvested it in our second Canadian holding Granite REIT which lagged over the month. Additionally, we readjusted our long term growth assumptions and capital expenditure figures for the Canadian multi-family REITs as a direct result of our recently enhanced Canadian residential property scores. We suspect that volatility continues to remain elevated throughout the upcoming earnings season and are keen to hear more from the management teams on their views on the speed and depth of the vaccine-led recovery.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Performance per 2021-01-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2021-01-31
Fund | Benchmark | |
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1 month | -1.7 % | -1.3 % |
3 months | 6.3 % | 9.4 % |
This year | -1.7 % | -1.3 % |
2018 | -0.7 % | 0.2 % |
2019 | 20.8 % | 17.2 % |
2020 | -13.8 % | -11.8 % |
1 year (on annual basis) | -15.9 % | -14.1 % |
3 years (on annual basis) i | 2.2 % | 2.4 % |
5 years (on annual basis) i | 5.8 % | 5.2 % |
Since inception (on annual basis) i | 8.0 % | 6.6 % |
Dividends
Distributing | Yes |
Last dividend | GBP 37.52 |
Ex-date last dividend | 2021-01-14 |
Number of distributions per year | 1 |
Dividend calendar |
Risk analysis (ex post) per 2021-01-31
3 years | Since inception | |
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Maximum drawdown i | -25.98 % | -25.98 % |
Tracking error i | 2.50 % | 2.14 % |
Information ratio i | -0.11 | 0.65 |
Beta i | 0.94 |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Top 5 contribution (2021-01-31)
Contribution i | Performance i | |
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Daiwa House Residential | 0.25 % | 9.48 % |
SITE Centers | 0.19 % | 10.86 % |
Healthcare Trust of America | 0.13 % | 4.31 % |
CubeSmart | 0.13 % | 4.39 % |
Warehouses De Pauw SCA | 0.13 % | 4.95 % |
Bottom 5 contribution (2021-01-31)
Contribution i | Performance i | |
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Broadstone Net Lease | -0.19 % | -7.24 % |
Americold Realty Trust | -0.15 % | -5.81 % |
Workspace | -0.14 % | -6.20 % |
Host Hotels & Resorts | -0.13 % | -6.72 % |
Highwoods Properties | -0.12 % | -4.75 % |
Geographic allocation (2021-01-31)
Top 10 holdings (2021-01-31)
Sector allocation (2021-01-31)
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Ongoing charges
Management fee i | 0.700 % |
Service fee i | 0.20 % |
Taxe d'abonnement i | 0.01 % |
Expected ongoing charges i | 0,91 % |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Share class details
Share class | J - GBP |
Investor type | Institutional |
Distributing | Yes |
Benchmark i | FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Index |
Investment category | Real Estate |
Universum | Global real estate equities |
Inception date | 2018-10-30 |
Domicile | Luxembourg |
May be offered to professional investors only in | Luxembourg, The Netherlands, United Kingdom |
UCITS status i | Yes |
Status | Open-end i |
Base currency | EUR |
Share class currency | GBP |
Management company | Kempen Capital Management NV |
Depositary and custodian | J.P. Morgan Bank Luxembourg S.A. |
Tradability
Minimum subscription | Initial subscription £50,000, additional subscriptions £10,000 |
Listed | no |
Subscription/Redemption Frequency | Daily |
ISIN i | LU1894636429 |
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Factsheets
Annual Reports
Semi- Annual Reports
Key Investor Information
Sustainability related disclosures
Voting records
Formal documents other
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.
Kempen's vision & mission
Kempen Capital Management is an asset manager that believes in stewardship and investment focusing on the long-term for the benefit of all stakeholders. Value creation is at the heart of the services we provide to our clients. We believe that being an engaged shareholder on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and retaining a long-term focus, is critical to helping our clients to preserve and create sustainable wealth that has positive real world impact and economic returns.
Kempen wide approach to responsible investment
We are committed to create sustainable alpha. The four pillars of our ESG-policy are:
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ESG integration: Ensuring sustainability risks and opportunities are adequately considered in our investment analysis and processes.
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Exclusion & avoidance: Not investing in companies involved in controversial activities or conduct.
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Active ownership: Being responsible stewards of our clients’ capital and using our influence through engagement and voting to improve corporate behaviour on specific ESG issues and achieve positive change
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Positive impact: Investing with an objective to achieve positive real world outcomes and impact, such as contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Â
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To put our mission and vision into practice we engage with our investee companies on a wide array of strategic, financial, and ESG topics. As an active owner we use our influence to improve our investee companies’ ESG performance. This helps us address some of the most pressing and important sustainability issues facing business and the world. Our focus themes for engagement are: human rights, labour rights, climate change and governance.Â
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Through collaboration with other investors and industry think tanks we contribute to the development of principles and standards of corporate responsibility both at sector levels, as well as investee company level.
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Our full voting records are available here.
Climate change
As a long-term investor, we believe climate change represents a systemic risk facing the economy, society and environment. We want to consider the risks and opportunities this presents to our investments in the coming decades. We have therefore set a long-term commitment (2050), a mid-term ambition (2030) and short-term objectives (2025).
- 2050 commitment: Net-zero investor.
- 2030 ambition: To align with a Paris Agreement pathway (listed and non-listed investments) and Dutch Klimaatakkoord.
- 2025 objectives: To align with a pathway towards achieving the Paris Agreement (listed investments) and Dutch Klimaatakkoord goals.[1]
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The Kempen climate change policy can be found here (under climate change policy).
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[1]We use carbon intensity as a metric to come to the pathway of net-zero emissions. As we care about the direction of travel and reduction of carbon emissions in the economy, it might be that the actual reducing trend may deviate from the suggested average trend line. The pathway is derived from the pathway of the EU Benchmarks.
OUR FUND APPROACH TO RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT
At Kempen, we manage several funds and mandates invested in listed Real Estate companies including the Global Property Fund[2] and the European Property Fund.
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We aim to align with a pathway towards achieving the Paris Agreement and Dutch Klimaatakkoord goals for our portfolio, as well as the EU Climate Transition Benchmark[3].
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Kempen’s ESG policy is implemented in our fund’s investment process by the following pillars: ESG Integration and Active ownership.
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[2]Kempen (Lux) Global Property Fund (the “Sub-Fundâ€) is a sub-fund of Kempen International Funds SICAV (the “Fundâ€), domiciled in Luxembourg.
[3]The EU Benchmarks consists of two climate benchmarks, Climate Transition Benchmark and Paris Aligned Benchmark, which have the aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 - in line with the 1.5?C scenarios from the IPCC. As we care about the direction of travel and reduction of carbon emissions in the economy, it might be that the actual reducing trend may deviate from the average pathway. We use carbon intensity (based on Revenues) as the forward looking climate metric.
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Exclusion & Avoidance
In line with the general Kempen policy, the Global Property Fund and the European Property Fund excludes all companies on the KCM Exclusion- or Avoidance list.
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Companies that ‘Fail’ or are on ‘Watchlist’ marked against the criteria of the United Nations Global Compact are excluded.
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ESG integration
We believe financial and sustainability returns are indivisible and that those companies that can find the right balance between all stakeholders will drive value. Our ESG analysis for listed real estate companies includes:
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Implementing our ESG quality score into the company score of each Real Estate company we model;
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Monitoring the global investment universe on Real Estate companies that exhibit negative excesses, such as environmental pollution measured by CO2 emission levels to initiate engagement. Our investment process rewards companies that integrate climate risks and opportunities into their organisation, and are able to move towards a low carbon economy;
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Benchmarking Real Estate companies against each other and visualising these results for our investment process and our clients in order to identify leaders and laggards;
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Entering into dialogue with companies we invest in, to improve their ESG policies and practices;
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Translating information of Real Estate company portfolios with lower sustainability scores into higher maintenance capex assumptions in our Kempen valuation models;
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Offering product customisation to our clients who (for example) want to invest in lower CO2 emission Real Estate portfolios only.
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In our investment framework there are three key aspects we look at in determining the warranted valuation: management value add, balance sheet and ESG. We are willing to pay up for those companies that excel in ESG. This believe is underpinned by academic literature.
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The figure 'How ESG is integrated in our investment process' shows how ESG is incorporated into the investment process. Note that we do not only invest in the ESG leaders but also in the laggards as the potential value to be unlocked by providing capital to those who need it the most is massive.
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Active ownership
As an active investor, the Real Estate funds also actively engage with companies on their strategic, financial and social responsibilities.
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Our engagements focus on those companies where we believe substantial value can be unlocked. Engagement can take place on a wide array of topics including:
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Reducing CO2 intensity levels;
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Reducing energy and water consumption;
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Improving waste recycling;
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Improving working conditions and human rights;
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Improving governance structures;
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Improving shareholder alignment;
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Shifting remuneration policies from being linked to short term goals to long term targets
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You can find the engagement factsheet of Kojamo Oyj here.
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Our full ESG policy can be downloaded here.
Risks
For more information about the mid and long term risks associated with the investments:
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Although Kempen Capital Management N.V.’s information providers, including without limitation, MSCI ESG Research LLC and its affiliates (the “ESG Partiesâ€), obtain information from sources they consider reliable, none of the ESG Parties warrants or guarantees the originality, accuracy and/or completeness of any data herein. None of the ESG Parties makes any express or implied warranties of any kind, and the ESG Parties hereby expressly disclaim all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to any data herein. None of the ESG Parties shall have any liability for any errors or omissions in connection with any data herein. Further, without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall any of the ESG Parties have any liability for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, consequential or any other damages (including lost profits) even if notified of the possibility of such damages.
ESG Report






The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document (available in Dutch, English and several other languages, see website) and the prospectus (available in English). These documents of the Fund are available at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/en/asset-management). The information on the website is (partly) available in Dutch and English.
The Sub-Fund is registered for offering in a limited number of countries. The countries where the Sub-Fund is registered can be found on the website. The value of your investment may fluctuate. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.