IMPORTANT RATINGS DISCLOSURES
Ratings represent the opinions of the rating agency as to the quality of the securities they rate. Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch and NAIC ratings rate the investment quality of the fund's shares. Independent rating agency ratings include, but are not limited to, a regular analysis of a fund's liquidity, diversification, operational policies and internal controls, its management characteristics and the creditworthiness of its assets.
Ratings are not intended as a recommendation and are subject to change. Ratings are relative and subjective and are not absolute standards of quality. The portfolio's credit quality does not remove market risk.
Fitch Rating's money market fund ratings are an opinion as to the capacity of a money market fund to preserve principal and provide shareholder liquidity. Money market fund ratings are distinguished from the long-term credit-rating scale by the ‘mmf’ rating subscript and range from ‘AAAmmf’ to ‘Bmmf’. For more information, please visit: https://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/public/ratings_defintions/index.cfm.
Moody's Investors Services Inc.'s money market fund ratings are opinions of the investment quality of shares in mutual funds and similar investment vehicles which principally invest in short-term fixed income obligations. As such, these ratings incorporate Moody's assessment of a fund's published investment objectives and policies, the creditworthiness of the assets held by the fund, the liquidity profile of the fund's assets relative to the fund's investor base, the assets' susceptibility to market risk, as well as the management characteristics of the fund. For more information, please visit: https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/solutions/ratings/mmfa.html
Standard & Poor's money market fund ratings are forward-looking opinions about a fixed-income fund's capacity to maintain stable principal (net asset value). When assigning a principal stability rating to a fund, Standard & Poor's analysis focuses primarily on the creditworthiness of the fund's investments and counterparties, and also its investments maturity structure and management's ability and policies to maintain the fund's stable net asset value. For more information, please visit: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/credit-ratings/about/understanding-credit-ratings.
The Institutional Money Market Funds Association (IMMFA) funds are European money market funds triple-A rated by one or more of the ratings agencies such as Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investor Service to ensure continued compliance with rating criteria. Only this type of fund is awarded the lowest susceptibility to interest-rate volatility. For complete information on the methodology used by IMMFA please visit: https://www.immfa.org
The Fund also maintains a high quality credit profile by continuously performing a strict credit quality assessment on each Issuer and the money market instruments, securitizations and ABCPs in which it invests pursuant to its credit quality assessment procedure as further described in the prospectus of the Fund.
1 As of 18 September 2024.
2 The Minimum Initial Investment/Minimum Subsequent Investment amounts may be in US Dollars (or the Euro or Sterling equivalent of the US Dollar amount). For more information please see the Charges and Expenses section of the prospectus.
3 May not sum to 100% due to rounding.