Significant Fund Changes
Please read this important information regarding important
changes we have made, or are planning to make to our Fund
Range.
Scheme of arrangement: The Lux funds
We recently informed you that we will transfer the assets of
certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
Please note these changes do not impact GBP share classes.
- American Extended Alpha Fund
- Asia Fund
- Global Extended Alpha Fund
- Global Select Fund
- UK Absolute Alpha Fund
We are pleased to confirm that the transfers have now been
successfully completed. Further information can be found below.
Investor letter
Q&A
Guide to Investing (SICAV)
Scheme of Arrangement EGM update
We recently informed you of our proposal to transfer the assets
of certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
Following the shareholder vote at the extraordinary general
meetings held on 12 December 2018, we can confirm that the proposed
transfers have now been approved.
- American Extended Alpha Fund
- Asia Fund
- Global Extended Alpha Fund
- Global Select Fund
- UK Absolute Alpha Fund
Investor letter
Q&A
Scheme of arrangement: The Lux funds
We recently informed you that we will transfer the assets of
certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
Please note these changes do not impact GBP share classes.
- American Smaller Companies Fund (US)
- European Smaller Companies Fund
- Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund
- Global Equity Income Fund
We are pleased to confirm that the transfers have now been
successfully completed. Further information can be found below.
Investor letter
Q&A
Guide to Investing (SICAV)
Scheme of arrangement: The Lux Funds
We recently informed you that we will transfer the assets of
certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
Please note these changes do not impact GBP share classes.
- American Fund
- American Select Fund
- European Select Fund
- UK Equity Income Fund
- UK Fund
We are pleased to confirm that the transfers have now been
successfully completed. Further information can be found below.
Investor letter
Q&A
Guide to Investing (SICAV)
Transfer of customer assets (Scheme of
arrangement)
We have written to investors about a proposed change to the
following funds.
- American Extended Alpha Fund
- Asia Fund
- Global Extended Alpha Fund
- Global Select Fund
- UK Absolute Alpha Fund
We are planning to transfer the assets of investors in certain
share classes of each fund listed above into an equivalent share
class within our established Luxembourg fund range. The transfers
will be made by a process called a scheme of arrangement.
Find out more
Scheme of Arrangement EGM update
We recently informed you of our proposal to transfer the assets
of certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
- American Smaller Companies Fund (US)
- European Smaller Companies Fund
- Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund
- Global Equity Income Fund
Following the shareholder vote at the extraordinary general
meetings, the results of the vote are detailed in the investor
letter below.
Investor letter
Q&A
Cross-border Mergers: Threadneedle Credit Opportunities
Fund
We recently informed you that we will transfer the assets of the
Threadneedle Credit Opportunities Fund into Threadneedle (Lux) -
Credit Opportunities, an equivalent fund within our established
Luxembourg fund range. We are pleased to confirm that the transfer
was successfully completed on 20 October 2018. Further information
can be found below.
Investor letter
Q&A
Guide to Investing (SICAV)
Scheme of Arrangement EGM update
We recently informed you of our proposal to transfer the assets
of certain share classes of the below listed UK-based funds into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range.
Following the shareholder vote at the extraordinary general
meetings held on 10 October 2018, we can confirm that the proposed
transfers have now been approved.
- American Fund
- American Select Fund
- European Select Fund
- UK Equity Income Fund
- UK Fund
We will be communicating with all impacted clients and outlining
the options available to them ahead of the merger date.
Investor letter
Q&A
Cross-border mergers: The Lux funds
We recently informed you that we will transfer the assets of the
below listed UK-based funds into an equivalent fund within our
established Luxembourg fund range (the "Lux Funds"). We are pleased
to confirm that the transfers have now been successfully
completed.
- European Corporate Bond Fund
- European High Yield Bond Fund
- Pan European Fund
- Pan European Smaller Companies Fund
- Pan European Equity Dividend Fund
Further information can be found below.
Investor Letter
Q&A
Guide to Investing (SICAV)
Transfer of customer assets (Scheme of
arrangement)
We have written to investors about a proposed change to the
following funds.
- American Smaller Companies Fund (US)
- European Smaller Companies Fund
- Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund
- Global Equity Income Fund
We are planning to transfer the assets of investors in certain
share classes of each fund listed above into an equivalent share
class within our established Luxembourg fund range. The transfers
will be made by a process called a scheme of arrangement.
Find out more
Transfer of customer assets (Scheme of
arrangement)
We have written to investors about a proposed change to the
following funds.
- American Fund
- American Select Fund
- European Select Fund
- UK Equity Income Fund
- UK Fund
We are planning to transfer the assets of investors in certain
share classes of each fund listed above into an equivalent share
class within our established Luxembourg fund range. The transfers
will be made by a process called a scheme of arrangement.
Find out more
Cross-border merger EGM update
We recently informed investors of our proposal to transfer the
assets of each fund listed below (the "Existing Funds") into an
equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund range (the
"Lux Funds"). Following the shareholder vote at the extraordinary
general meetings (EGMs) held on 24 August 2018, we can confirm that
the transfers have been approved for all the affected funds.
- European Corporate Bond Fund
- European High Yield Bond Fund
- Pan European Fund
- Pan European Smaller Companies Fund
- Pan European Equity Dividend Fund
- Credit Opportunities Fund
We will be communicating with all impacted clients and outlining
the options available to them ahead of the merger date.
Investor Letter
Q&A
Transfer of customer assets (Cross-border
merger)
We have written to investors about a proposed change to the
following funds.
- European Corporate Bond Fund
- European High Yield Bond Fund
- Pan European Fund
- Pan European Smaller Companies Fund
- Pan European Equity Dividend Fund
- Credit Opportunities Fund
We are planning to transfer the assets of each fund listed above
into an equivalent fund within our established Luxembourg fund
range. The transfer will be made by a process called a
'cross-border merger'.
Find out more
Compulsory share class conversion
We will be applying compulsory conversion to some of our Funds
with effect from 16 June 2018. We have written to investors in the
funds impacted by the change.
More information and the list of funds and share classes can be
found here.
Fee reductions
In our latest review of fees and charges, we identified
opportunities to reduce charges on a number of our funds and in
certain share classes. These changes will reduce the ongoing
charges figures (OCF) and improve value for money for investors.
The new fees and charges come into effect from 1 February 2018 and
will:
- Reduce registrar fees on a number of our UK regulated funds and
in certain share classes
- Reduce operating expenses on a number of our Luxembourg
regulated funds and in certain share classes
- Reduce the annual management charge (AMC) on a range of funds
and share classes.
View list of funds
Prospectus changes: Compulsory conversion
From 1 February 2018 we will be updating our prospectuses to
include the ability for us to convert investors' shares in a fund
from one share class of the fund to another share class of that
same fund. This is known as compulsory conversion.
We will only apply compulsory conversions if it is in the best
interests of investors to do so. Ahead of any compulsory
conversions we will write to investors in the Fund to explain what
is happening, the reasons for it and to give notice of the date
that the change will be taking place and we will explain what you
can do if you disagree with the changes we plan to make.
For full details please read the Prospectus update section in
the Investor Update.
CHANGE TO MANAGEMENT OF THE THREADNEEDLE JAPAN
FUND
On 1 November 2017 we will be making changes to the way the
Threadneedle Japan Fund is managed.
Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (TAML), the investment
manager of the Fund, will be able to delegate investment decisions
for the Fund to Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
(CMIA), which is a US-based investment manager in the Columbia
Threadneedle group of companies.
This means that the Fund will benefit from the additional
research capability from a large US-based team to complement our
strong research base in the UK and US-based fund managers can be
involved in making investment decisions for the Fund.
Investor
letter
Q&A
Draft KIID
UK Growth & Income
Policy Change
The Threadneedle UK Growth & Income Fund is altering its
investment policy to remove the reference to "blue chip large
capitalised UK companies" and replacing it with "larger capitalised
UK companies".
Client
Letter
Q and A
Changes within the
depositary/custodian/trustee
From 1 January 2016, the following changes will take place
within Citibank, which acts as the depositary/custodian/trustee for
some of our funds.
More
information
TIF American Smaller Companies Fund
We will be expanding the definition of smaller companies within
the investment policy of the Fund.
Read more
TIF and TSIF Deferred Redemptions
Introduction of a new deferred redemption policy.
TIF - Read more
TSIF - Read more
TIF, TSIF and TIF II US Equity Funds
From 1 June 2015 Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
(Columbia) will be formally appointed as an investment adviser to
the US equities funds
Read more