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SICAV
Euro Corporate Bond Fund
This diversified fund invests predominantly in corporate bonds denominated in euros. It seeks to exploit inefficiencies in corporate bond markets and to generate value through income and capital growth. We invest along the capital structure.
ISIN LU0133091248
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FACTSHEET
KID
SFDR DISCLOSURE
31-Jan-2020 - David Stanley, Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income,
We believe the technical backdrop in the European corporate bond market will likely remain favourable. This should help the asset class remain relatively stable despite potential wider market volatility due to the coronavirus outbreak. We also continue to see signs of moderate improvement in the European economic outlook. However, the size of the current European Central Bank stimulus would not prevent spread widening, in our view, should the coronavirus cause a significant long-term economic impact.

Overview
Strategy
Fund Summary
We use proprietary, fundamental credit research to focus on identifying corporate bonds that offer attractive yields in relation to their credit fundamentals. We integrate financial, technical, legal and qualitative research with relative value analysis. Risk management is integral, with limits on both duration and yield curve exposures. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 10% of the value of its portfolio invested in Sustainable Investments, as defined by the SFDR. 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.
Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

31-Jul-2024 - David Stanley, Portfolio Manager,
European corporate bonds produced a strong positive total return in July due to falling yields and narrower spreads. Softer economic data in the US and eurozone and central bank comments led to raised expectations for interest rate cuts. Later in the month, corporate earnings disappointments and geopolitical risks resulted in a sharp drop in investors’ appetite for risk causing spreads to retrace some earlier tightening. In the portfolio, security selection was positive, with outperformance in banking where positions in Italy, Spain and the UK did well. We saw notable individual contributions from issues recovering previous underperformance, such as a UK-based transport network operator, which is aiming to reduce leverage through disposals, and a global apparel company that agreed to sell one of its brands for more than was expected. Asset allocation was negative at the margin as our defensive index hedges cost performance modestly as credit spreads were lower.

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.

Hedged share classes (denoted by 'h') utilise investment techniques to mitigate currency risk between the underlying investment currency(ies) of the fund and the currency of the hedged share class.  The costs of doing so will be borne by the share class and there is no guarantee that such hedging will be effective.

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The specific securities identified and described in this website do not represent all of the securities purchased, sold, or recommended for the sub-fund and no assumptions should be made that the securities identified and discussed were or will be profitable.

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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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