- Kempen
- Kempen Lux Euro High Yield Fund Class I
Kempen Lux Euro High Yield Fund Class I
Profile
The Fund aims to earn a higher total long term return than the benchmark by implementing an active investment policy. In order to achieve this, a diversified portfolio is constructed while investment risks are continuously monitored. Investments are selected on the basis of an extensive analysis of the terms and conditions of the bond issues.
Management team
Performance per 2019-07-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2019-07-31
| Fund | Benchmark | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 1.0 % | 0.8 % |
| 3 months | 2.8 % | 2.4 % |
| This year | 9.2 % | 8.5 % |
| 2017 | 2.3 % | 1.6 % |
| 2018 | -2.5 % | -2.9 % |
| 1 year (on annual basis) | 6.8 % | 5.9 % |
| Since inception (on annual basis) i | 4.3 % | 3.5 % |
Key figures
| Total fund size | EUR 34.82 M 2019-07-31 |
| Share class size | EUR 19.01 M 2019-07-31 |
| Number of shares | 17,539 2019-07-31 |
| Net Asset Value i | EUR 1,081.39 2019-08-15 |
Fund characteristics per 2019-07-31
| Fund | Benchmark | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of holdings | 133 | 558 |
| Duration i | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| Yield to maturity | 3.8 % | 2.0 % |
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Market developments per 2019-07-31
The trend of declining government bond yields continued during July, primarily driven by data that shows global economic growth is slowing and expectations that central banks will subsequently adopt more accommodative monetary stances. In Europe, Mario Draghi again conveyed a dovish tone when communicating the results of the ECB’s governing council meeting in July. Whilst the ECB refrained from implementing any new specific measures, Draghi indicated that the Eurosystem Committees have been tasked with looking at various options to ensure that inflation expectations do not weaken further. Such options include the launch of new asset purchase programs, as well as the use of mitigating measures to neutralise the potential negative effects of further interest rate cuts on the profitability of the Eurozone banking system.
In the United States, the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by 25 basis points and halt its program of balance sheet reduction as of the 1st of August. The latter step had initially been targeted for the end of September. Investors were surprised by Chairman Powell’s statement that the interest rate cut reflected a “mid-cycle adjustment†and did not herald the start of a sustained cycle of further interest rate reductions. Furthermore, the fact that two Fed officials voted against the decision to lower interest rates, suggests that the market’s anticipations for multiple interest rate cuts until the end of 2020 may be misplaced.
The ongoing failure to reach an amicable conclusion to the protracted China/US trade negotiations is a major contributor to heightened concerns amongst investors about the future health of the global economy. President Trump’s decision to apply import tariffs of 10 percent on a further USD 300 billion of goods exported from China to the US exacerbated these concerns. One question markets are grappling with is the extent to which still relatively robust services sectors can continue to expand whilst manufacturing sectors in many regions of the world are in a state of contraction. There is a clear risk that the services sector will also begin to slow down if, and when, manufacturing companies begin to implement large scale layoffs to right-size their production to lower levels of demand. In addition to the China/US trade negotiations, there are other (geo-)political risks negatively impacting investor sentiment. These include the potential for a hard Brexit in October, turmoil in Hong Kong related to its citizens’ demands for greater democracy, business unfriendly policies being adopted by the new Mexican president, as well as escalating trade tensions between Japan and South Korea.
Second quarter earnings results from the US and European banks that have thus far reported suggest asset quality continues to hold up relatively well. Management teams did cite, however, increasing pressure on their net interest income and margins, as yields on their loan and securities portfolios decline in the face of heightened competition in the origination of loans and the sharp decline in underlying yields on government and corporate bonds. At the same time, especially in Europe, it is still challenging for retail banks to pass through negative interestrates on the deposits of their retail customers.
The combination of declining sales, particularly of passenger vehicles, and rising freight and raw material costs, contributed to disappointing second quarter earnings from a number of cyclical companies operating in the chemicals, automotive and industrial goods & services sectors. Nonetheless, the earnings trajectory amongst non-financial companies remains decidedly mixed, with companies operating in the telecom, utilities, food & beverage, and health care sectors posting solid results and clearly outperforming companies active in the more cyclical sectors.
At the end of July, the number of bonds that make up the ML Q964 benchmark decreased by 6 to 558, while the number of companies declined by 3 to 248. Additions to the benchmark included a EUR 1 billion lower tier 2 bond issued by French banking group BNP Paribas, a EUR 500 million corporate hybrid bond issued by French utility group Engie and EUR 1.15 billion of bonds issued by French equipment rental company Loxam. Bonds issued by UK based auto manufacturer Jaguar LandRover will leave the benchmark after Fitch downgraded the company to BB- with a Negative outlook. Jaguar LandRover had already been downgraded to B1 and B+ at Moody’s and S&P earlier this year.
The amount of bonds issued by non-financial institutions in the European high yield market was EUR 8.3 billion in July, roughly two and a half times that what was issued in June and roughly 50% more than that what was issued in the year earlier period. European high yield bonds totalling EUR 43.1 billion were issued in the first seven months of this year, a decrease of 13% compared to last year.
Portfolio developments per 2019-07-31
Our positioning in the automotive, industrial goods & Services, and real estate sectors performed relatively well in July. In contrast, our positioning in the media, insurance and basic resources sectors contributed negatively. Our liquidity position made a negative contribution.
At individual company level, positive contributions came from the overweights in Telecom Italia, Adler Real Estate, Telefonica, Volkswagen, Intesa Sanpaolo and Tank & Rast, as well as from our underweights in Chemours, Loxam, and Owens-Illinois. In contrast, the underweights in Wind, Netflix, Salini Impreglio, Orano and UniCredit, as well as our overweights in Huntsman, IHO Verwaltungs (holding company of Schaeffler) and Barclays contributed negatively.
In July, the Fund participated in a new bond issued by Vivion Investments.
Outlook
Given the significant tightening in spreads since the beginning of this year, as well as increasing signs that the global economy is slowing, we intend to maintain a relatively defensive positioning in the portfolio.
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Performance per 2019-07-31 (rebased)
Performance per 2019-07-31
| Fund | Benchmark | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 1.0 % | 0.8 % |
| 3 months | 2.8 % | 2.4 % |
| This year | 9.2 % | 8.5 % |
| 2017 | 2.3 % | 1.6 % |
| 2018 | -2.5 % | -2.9 % |
| 1 year (on annual basis) | 6.8 % | 5.9 % |
| Since inception (on annual basis) i | 4.3 % | 3.5 % |
Dividends
| Distributing | No |
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Maturity profile (2019-07-31)
Sector allocation (2019-07-31)
Rating allocation (2019-07-31)
Top 10 holdings (2019-07-31)
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Ongoing charges
| Management fee i | 0.52 % |
| Service fee i | 0.10 % |
| Taxe d'abonnement i | 0.01 % |
| Expected ongoing charges i | 0.63 % |
Other costs
| Upward swing factor i | 0.30 % |
| Downward swing factor i | 0.30 % |
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Share class details
| Share class | I i |
| Investor type | Institutional |
| Distributing | No |
| Benchmark i | BofA Merrill Lynch Composite Index |
| Reference index i | BofA Merrill Lynch BB-B High Yield Constrained Index |
| Duration hedged | No |
| Investment category | Credits |
| Universum | Credits denominated in euro |
| Inception date | 2017-07-31 |
| Domicile | Luxembourg |
| May be offered to professional investors only in | Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| UCITS status i | Yes |
| Status | Open-end i |
| Base currency | EUR |
| Share class currency | EUR |
| Management company | Kempen Capital Management N.V. |
| 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 | LU1624254121 |
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Factsheets
Annual Reports
Semi- Annual Reports
Key Investor Information
Formal documents other
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
The Sub-Fund is registered for offeringin 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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
Kempen's vision and 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.
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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.
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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.
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OUR FUND APPROACH TO RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT
Kempen’s ESG policy is fully implemented in our fund’s investment process across the three relevant pillars of: Exclusion, Integration and Active ownership.
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1. Exclusion
In line with the general Kempen policy, the Kempen Euro Credit Strategies[1] exclude all companies on the KCM exclusion- or avoidance list. Companies on these lists are either involved in the production of controversial weapons, they derive a significant portion of their revenues from the production or distribution of tobacco, or have been involved in serious controversies.
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2. ESG Integration
Responsible Investment in the Kempen Euro Credit Strategies is not limited to the exclusion of companies. Rather, ESG criteria are an integral part of the investment process. To form a fundamental opinion on a company, the portfolio managers assess the business profile, the financial profile and the ESG profile. Research provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC is used as a basis for the ESG assessment.  Â
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A low score on ESG criteria can result in the demand for an additional premium on the company’s bonds and/or initiation of an engagement with the issuer. If ESG risks are deemed too severe, an investment in the company will be avoided and/or existing holdings will be sold.
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On a quarterly basis, the Kempen Responsible Investment team screens the holdings of the Kempen Euro Credit Strategies, and discusses the findings with the portfolio managers. Special attention is paid to companies scoring an MSCI ESG rating of B or lower, those with a ‘fail’ marked against the criteria of the UN Global Compact or those companies that attract a red flag on the MSCI ESG impact monitor. Companies in carbon intensive sectors are also given special attention.
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3. Active Ownership
For our Kempen Euro Credit Strategies, we distinguish between three types of engagement. They are i) an engagement for awareness, ii) an engagement for change, and iii) a public policy and/or systemic engagement. Engagement for awareness is aimed at raising awareness on certain issues with a company and/or collecting more information on a specific ESG issue. Engagement for change, which could follow an engagement for awareness, has the goal of achieving a specific SMART goal. The third form of engagement relates to seeking an improvement in a public policy or a system relevant to wider capital markets
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Our engagement process defines four milestones:
1. Raise concern with the company;
2. Company acknowledges the issue;
3. Company sets out a strategy / agrees to improve;
4. Company implements the strategy. Â
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Our engagement could start at any of the first three milestones. When a milestone is reached, a document of proof is attached to the engagement case and the engagement will move on to the following milestone. When the fourth milestone is reached, the engagement is closed, but we continue to monitor the company. If at any stage the company refuses to cooperate, divestment has to be considered. To measure willingness to cooperate, we set specific timelines for the engagement.
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The Kempen Euro Credit Strategies, began an engagement with Bayer in 2018, following their acquisition of Monsanto. Through the acquisition, Bayer inherited several significant controversies in the field of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The goal of our engagement is to get a formal and written statement from the company which states that they will not sue small holder farmers for the unintended use of Bayer licensed GMO crops. It also asks the company to set a target for the number of farmers that receive education on their crop protection products.
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In addition we have ongoing engagement cases with Volkswagen on its company culture, Cez on the use of thermal coal (you can find the engagement factsheet here), Glencore on climate action (you can find the engagement factsheet here) and Huntsman on ESG disclosure. In July 2018, Huntsman was upgraded from ‘CCC’ to ‘B’ by MSCI ESG, and the company’s Sustainability report, published in 2018, includes an overview of its progress towards alignment with the UN Global Compact Ten Principles for the first time.
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[1] The Kempen (Lux) Euro Credit Fund, Kempen (Lux) Euro Credit Fund Plus, Kempen (Lux) Euro Sustainable Credit Fund and Kempen (Lux) Euro High Yield Fund
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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
Paying agent and representative in Switzerland is RBC Investor Services Bank S.A., Bleicherweg 7, CH-8027 Zurich, Switzerland. The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The Sub-Fund is registered with The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under the license of the Fund.
The information in this document provides insufficient information for an investment decision. Please read the Key Investor Document and the prospectus. These documents as well as annual report, semi-annual report and the articles of incorporation of the Fund are available free of charge at the registered office of the Fund located at 6H, route de Trèves, L-2633 Senningerberg, Luxembourg, at the offices of the representative in Switzerland and on the website of KCM (www.kempen.com/investmentfunds).
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. The performance shown does not take account of any commissions and costs charged when subscribing to and redeeming units.
