BSF ESG Fixed Income Strategies S2 Cap $ Hdg

The Fund aims to achieve positive returns on your investment through a combination of capital growth and income on the Fund's assets over a rolling three year period in a manner consistent with the principles of environmental, social and governance "ESG" focused investing. The Fund seeks to gain at least 70% investment exposure to fixed income (FI) securities and FI-related securities issued by, or giving exposure to, governments, government agencies, companies and supranationals (e.g. the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) worldwide. The Fund may invest in FI securities including bonds as well as money market instruments (i.e. debt securities with short term maturities), FI-related securities including financial derivative instruments ("FDIs") (i.e. investments the prices of which are based on one or more underlying assets), currency forwards (i.e. a type of FDI which locks in the price at which an entity can buy or sell a currency at a future date and where appropriate, deposits and cash). The Fund will take into account ESG criteria when selecting investments as disclosed in the prospectus and will apply the EU Paris-Aligned Benchmark Exclusions as further described in the prospectus. For further details please refer to the Fund's ESG policy section in the prospectus and to the at the BlackRock website at https://www.blackrock.com/baselinescreens The Fund may invest no more than 40% of the Fund's assets in FI securities which have a relatively low credit rating or which are unrated. The remainder will include investments which are investment grade (i.e. meet a specified level of credit worthiness) at the time of purchase. FDIs may be used to help achieve the Fund's investment objective. The Fund is actively managed and the IA has discretion to select the Fund's investments. The ESTR Overnight should be used to compare the performance of the Fund. The price of FI securities may be affected by changing interest rates which in turn may affect the

PIR compliant

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PEA compliant

No

PEA-PME compliant

No