With thousands of investment options in the marketplace, it is not easy deciding where and how you should invest next.  Now, The Bank of East Asia ("BEA") brings you an advanced fund investment approach pioneered by Russell Investment Group ("Russell"), a global leader in multi manager investing. With a substantial portion of its assets being invested in a series of Russell managed funds, the BEA Signature Portfolio Funds takes the guesswork out of investing and is built on the same disciplined approach used by many of the world's largest investors, including governments, corporations and many of the world's wealthiest individuals.  And it is now available to you.

A Tailored Strategy to Suit Your Needs

There are four diversified sub-funds in the Fund: Stable; Balanced; Growth; Aggressive, each suited to different types of investors. Each sub-funds adopts a fund of funds structure, ensuring efficient diversification of risk. Our Marketing Officers will use sophisticated tools to work with you to carefully consider your investment objectives, time horizon and risk tolerance to invest your money in an appropriate sub-funds of the Fund.
 

The Fund is designed using Russell's advanced and proven MULTI ASSET MULTI STYLE MULTI MANAGER^TM investment approach which uses three levels of diversification to help manage risk and build wealth over the long-term.

	MULTI ASSET - Each of the major asset types (equities, bonds) is combined for risk control at the total portfolio level.
	MULTI STYLE - Within each asset type, different fund managers use different investment styles (e.g. value, growth) to guide the investment of your hard earned money.  By blending a range of fund manager styles, the Fund helps manage risk and work toward generating more consistent returns.
	MULTI MANAGER - Within manager styles, the Fund uses a manager-of-managers approach, selecting, combining and monitoring some of the most talented fund managers in the world.

With a substantial portion of its assets being invested in a series of Russell managed funds, the Fund through its underlying funds, utilizes the same disciplined investment approach used by many of the world's largest investors, including General Motors, AT&T, IBM, Boeing and NEC. Globally, Russell currently guides the investment of more than USD1.8 trillion^# of assets.
 

^# Source: Russell Investment Group as at 30^th June 2004
 

Through investing in Russell managed funds, the Fund brings you an "institutional" quality investment solution in a convenient, pre-blended package of about 25 specialist fund managers - each selected for being the best in their field, not only in Hong Kong but internationally as well!
 

As the fund manager of some of the underlying funds of the Fund, Russell carefully selects the managers from more than 2,700 investment firms and 6,600 investment products globally.  It means you end up with a team of managers who are among the best in the world, combined in a complementary manner to provide you with consistent investment excellence.
 

Relax with peace of mind - performance of each fund manager of the underlying funds of the Fund are constantly monitoring, and efficient changes of manager(s) are made as and when required.  
 

Any ongoing strategy enhancements or changes to the underlying fund manager line-up are made by Russell or BEA at no additional cost to investors. This greatly reduces investors' accumulated costs of acquiring and realizing conventional funds should they initiate their own switches because of unsatisfactory performance.  As these costs associated with investing in single manager products accumulate, they can significantly eat into your net return.
 

Despite utilizing a sophisticated and resource intensive multi manager fund structure, investors of the Fund will only be charged for one level of management fee - just like most traditional single manager funds available in the market.
 

You can also choose to join the "Monthly Investment Plan" to make regular subscription for Units of the Fund on a monthly basis, subject to a minimum amount of HKD1,000 per month (or its equivalent in the relevant currency). Please refer to Regular Contributions below for details.
 

Units of the Fund may be subscribed or redeemed on every Business Day (Monday to Friday except public holidays) in Hong Kong.
 

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