Franklin Alternative Strategies A PF Dis EUR Hdg

Investment Objective To seek investment growth, mainly through growth of capital, while maintaining a lower volatility relative to equity markets. Investment Policy The Fund can invest in any asset, and use any investment technique, that is permitted to a UCITS fund, including those that are generally considered to be high risk.The Fund can invest in any kind of equity securities and debt securities from any country or type of issuer. It can invest directly or may gain exposure to investments indirectly, such as through derivatives, participatory notes, or by investing in other UCITS or UCIs. It can take direct or indirect long or short positions in securities, currencies, interest rates, and other investments or financial instruments. It may also take indirect long or short positions in commodities. The Fund may engage in derivative transactions that have the effect of magnifying investment gains or losses. The Fund uses high quantity of listed and unlisted derivatives for hedging, efficient portfolio management and/or investment purposes. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading as part of its investment strategies. The Fund may also invest up to 10% of its net assets into risk-linked securities, generally catastrophe and natural disaster risks, that transfer a specified set of risks from an issuer to investors ("catastrophe bonds").The lead manager assigns portions of the Fund's assets to multiple outside management teams (selected and monitored by the lead manager), each of which uses an alternative investment strategy to manage its portion. These strategies may seek to benefit from, for instance, global economic trends, corporate mergers or reorganizations, pricing variations between markets or securities, industries or geographic regions with above-average growth. The Fund's overall performance will be the result of the performance of the different strategies involved and the portion of the Fund's assets assigned to such strategies. The Fund may also

PIR compliant

No

PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No