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Global Equity Enhanced Income Fund
An innovative and dynamic approach designed to deliver a high level of consistent income and capital growth, now with a three-year track record.
Delivering an equity income portfolio can often result in a tug-of-war between income, capital growth and a balanced portfolio. The Allspring Global Equity Enhanced Income Fund has been designed to overcome this challenge.
What: A fund designed to deliver a high, consistent income plus access to the growth potential of global equities
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Enhanced Income
Targets a high, consistent yield — 6% p.a. (paid quarterly)*
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Growth potential
Designed to capture the long-term growth potential of global equities
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Balanced exposures
Helps mitigate style swings while capturing growth opportunities with a globally diversified portfolio
*As of 31 December 2024. The figure is based on Class I (USD) Distributing share class.
A target is indicative only, not guaranteed and does not take into account fees or charges which will reduce returns.
A diversified approach to income delivery
Diversified sources of returns are dynamically managed to deliver the targeted income while generating robust total returns for investors.
1The fund intends to make consistent quarterly income distributions. Capital gains from both equity and option portfolios can be utilized in addition to equity dividends to achieve the target distribution. 2Only partial potential upside is given up in order to preserve long term capital growth.
One portfolio, two uses
Why: Global equities provide a broad opportunity set for income seeking investors while delivering robust capital growth in excess of inflation
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Global opportunity set
Avoid concentration risk with a diversified portfolio
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Long-term capital growth
Income investors also need to grow their assets
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Robust real returns
Help overcome the impact of inflation
How: An innovative and dynamic approach to delivering income
High, consistent income
- Two sources are dynamically managed.
- Balance the trade-off between income and equity returns.
Captures equity growth
- Our proprietary ‘Quantamental’ investment process combines the best of quantitative tools and fundamental analysis.
- High conviction portfolio of 60 to 80 stocks.
Balanced portfolio
- Portfolio constructed to avoid common style biases and structural underweights.
- Complements other income generating approaches.
Who: Meeting investors’ specific needs
The systematic edge team is a global quantitative capability that offers a broad range of investment products and solutions designed to help meet clients’ goals.
Built on award-winning research, the Systematic Edge team provides clients with specialist insights that are combined with cutting-edge portfolio construction techniques to provide targeted outcomes.
1 Allspring does not provide investment research; awards for research are for papers published by a third party and authored by Allspring investment professionals. They are not a guarantee of future performance at Allspring.
PM perspective
PM Perspective: Global Equity Income
Watch Wai Lee, senior portfolio manager for the Multi-Asset Solutions team, discuss the team’s focus areas for 2025, including higher rates for longer, what’s next in the AI space, and improving market breadth.
Transcript
Wai Lee: To continue to deliver income, capital growth, and balanced risks, a few focus areas for us in 2025 include first, higher rates for longer. While long rates have moved up since the easing cycle started, expectations have moderated to only two cuts with the Fed funds rate expected to drop to 4% by year end. Historically, this kind of interest rate environment has been good for active managers amid increased volatility and dispersion in both company and factor performance. While sticking to our investment process of identifying fundamentally attractive companies, we’ll be watching out for rate sensitive companies and heightened volatility, which can also be constructive to our options overlay strategy. Second, next in the AI space, we expect AI to remain a hot topic for 2025. But unlike many income strategies, we can invest up to 10% of our portfolio in non-dividend paying companies, which includes AI-related stocks and this boosts our ability to benefit from this theme. Building on our success in identifying the AI enablers, we will spread our alpha net to catch the AI adopters, as well. Third, improving market breadth. Market breadth has become scarce as fundamentals unfolded from U.S. equity domination to cap weighted versus equal weighted and growth versus value. We managed to outperform during intensifying market concentration through 2024 and we welcome early signs of improving breadth as a tailwind for active managers.
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Fund risks
Market risk: securities may decline in value due to factors affecting securities markets generally, and equity securities generally have greater price volatility than debt securities. Smaller-company securities risk: securities of companies with smaller market capitalisations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than securities of larger companies. Geographic concentration risk: investments concentrated in specific geographic regions and markets may be subject to greater volatility due to economic downturns and other factors affecting the specific geographic regions. Global investment risk: securities of certain jurisdictions may experience more rapid and extreme changes in value and may be affected by uncertainties such as international political developments, currency fluctuations and other developments in the laws and regulations of countries in which an investment may be made. Derivatives risk: the use of derivatives presents risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional securities. The use of derivatives can lead to losses because of adverse movements in the price or value of the underlying asset, index or rate, which may be magnified by certain features of the derivatives. ESG risk: applying an ESG screen for security selection may result in lost opportunity in a security or industry resulting in possible underperformance relative to peers. ESG screens are dependent on third-party data and errors in the data may result in the incorrect inclusion or exclusion of a security.