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SICAV
Emerging Local Markets Bond Fund
An actively managed, diversified portfolio of the local-currency denominated bonds of emerging market sovereign issuers. The strategy seeks to provide generally lower levels of credit risk compared to external bonds, with meaningful opportunities in terms of local interest rate cycle and emerging markets currency exposure. Put simply, we aim to buy high quality businesses run by high quality people. The fund is categorised as Article 8 under Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
ISIN LU0310189781
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FACTSHEET
KID
SFDR DISCLOSUR
31-Oct-2024 - Andrew Keirle, Portfolio Manager,
Over the medium to long term, we believe absolute and relative fundamentals, structural changes in index composition, cheap currencies and positive relative technical factors are all supportive of emerging markets local currency bonds. However, we tactically reduced our conviction in the asset class in the near term due to external risks, including US rates and election implications.

Overview
Strategy
Fund Summary
Our approach is to leverage our in-house global fixed income team’s views to form a baseline for emerging market debt. We then carry out fundamental research, including independent country risk assessments across more than 60 countries. We formulate short- and medium-term forecasts across the yield curve for nominal bonds, inflation-linked bonds, and currencies. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 50% of the value of its portfolio invested in issuers and/or securities that are rated as ‘Green’ by the T. Rowe Price proprietary Responsible Investor Indicator Model (RIIM). Additionally, we apply a proprietary responsible screen (exclusion list). The manager is not constrained by the fund’s benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.
OUR VIEWS ON EMERGING MARKETS
Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
31-Oct-2024 - Andrew Keirle, Portfolio Manager,
Local emerging markets bonds declined in October amid rising global yields, and the US dollar strengthened versus emerging markets currencies over the month. Within the portfolio, our duration positioning had a negative impact, particularly our overweight allocation to Mexico as yields rose ahead of the US election. Our overweight exposure to Colombia was also a drag amid increasing concerns over the fiscal situation in the country after a bill that would increase revenue transfers to regional governments was presented in Congress. However, our overweight exposure to Uruguay lifted results as voters rejected the controversial pension reform referendum that would lower the retirement age. In currency, a long position in the Brazilian real detracted as fiscal concerns weighed on the real, amplified by the president calling for larger income tax exemptions. The Indonesian rupiah depreciated amid a shifting outlook for further US interest rate cuts and uncertainty around the US election. Conversely, our long position in the Turkish lira was beneficial.
31-Jan-2024 - Andrew Keirle, Portfolio Manager,
We remained overweight to duration, principally in Latin America which should continue to benefit from disinflation and falling interest rates, although we increased our underweight exposure to Chile as valuations look stretched. We stayed overweight to Central and Eastern Europe, predominantly Hungary, given monetary easing and fiscal fundamentals, but maintained an underweight to Poland reflecting expected high issuance. In Asia, we favour off-benchmark opportunities, notably India. We reduced our developed market short duration hedges in the US and Europe.
31-Jan-2024 - Andrew Keirle, Portfolio Manager,
We increased our long exposure to emerging market currencies on weakness, boosting our conviction overweight positions in the high-yielding Hungarian forint and Mexican peso, increasing overweight exposures in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. More opportunistically, we topped up our position in Chilean peso following its sharp underperformance and added a long position in the South African rand where interest rates remain elevated. We rotated some of our US dollar short position into other funding currencies including the euro, UK sterling and Japanese yen.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

The Funds are sub-funds of the T. Rowe Price Funds SICAV, a Luxembourg investment company with variable capital which is registered with Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and which qualifies as an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities (“UCITS”). Full details of the objectives, investment policies and risks are located in the prospectus which is available with the key investor information documents and/or key information document (KID) in English and in an official language of the jurisdictions in which the Funds are registered for public sale, together with the articles of incorporation and the annual and semi-annual reports (together “Fund Documents”). Any decision to invest should be made on the basis of the Fund Documents which are available free of charge from the local representative, local information/paying agent or from authorised distributors. They can also be found along with a summary of investor rights in English at www.troweprice.com. The Management Company reserves the right to terminate marketing arrangements.

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Benchmark: Investors may use the benchmark to compare the fund’s performance. The benchmark has been selected because it is similar to the investment universe used by the investment manager and therefore acts as an appropriate comparator. The investment manager is not constrained by any country, sector and/or individual security weightings relative to the benchmark and has complete freedom to invest in securities that do not form part of the benchmark.

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