Metzler Asset Management

Fund Investment Objectives

International multi-asset approach: NORDEA 1 HERACLES LONGSHORT MI FUND Fund can invest globally in various equity and bond markets as well as currencies. The fund management team uses futures relating to individual equity and bond market indices, as well as currency forwards. The base portfolio of the Nordea 1 Heracles LongShort MI Fund consists of money market paper (cash). The fund invests exclusively in markets that are highly liquid at all times. The fund concept of the Nordea 1 Heracles LongShort MI Fund includes the use of both long and short investments, in order to profit from rising and falling prices across different strategies (meaning a long/short position in an equity, fixed income or currency market) are diversified over time (rolling monthly), which results in the use of well over 1000 strategies at any time of the year. The target return is explicitly built into the algorithm to stabilize returns. Forecast-free and rule based: Nordea 1 Heracles LongShort MI Fund allocates in accordance with permanently defined, quantifiable and reproducible rules. Fees are shown as 0 as they are variable and open to discussion. Therefore, returns are reported gross of fees.