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Our : explore tool allows you to research all the Funds available through our service.

Feel free to use the filters to quickly find what you are looking for.

Each of the column headings allow you to sort in ascending or descending order. For example, if you click once on the column heading 'Yield' it will sort with the lowest yielding Fund first, click it twice and the highest yielding will appear top.

The funds shown below are available on the Willis Owen Platform. View the Funds available on the Aegon (formerly Cofunds) Platform.

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Glossary of Terms

Asset Class

An asset class is a group of securities that exhibit similar characteristics and behave similarly in the marketplace. For the purposes of : explore, they are categorised as either: Alternative, Commodities, Convertibles, Equity, Fixed Income, Money Market and Property

Average Credit Quality

This is used for Funds that invests in Bonds. Average credit quality gives a snapshot of the portfolio's overall credit quality. It is an average of each bond's credit rating, adjusted for its relative weighting in the portfolio.

U.S. government bonds carry the highest credit rating, while bonds issued by speculative or bankrupt companies usually carry the lowest credit ratings. Anything at or below BB is considered a high-yield or "junk" bond.

IA Sector

There are a huge variety of Funds on sale in the UK to choose from. The IA’s sectors provide a way of dividing around 2,500 of these Funds into broad groups. As an investor you can then compare Funds in one or more sectors before looking in detail at individual Funds and making your investment decisions.

More information can be found within Sectors & Ratings

Manager Tenure

This represents the number of years that the current manager has been the portfolio manager of the Fund.

For Funds with more than one manager, the average tenure is shown. If there is only one manager and he/she has been at the Fund for less than six months (and there is biographical information available), a dash will appear.

If the Fund designates the manager as a Management Team and does not disclose the names of the portfolio manager or co-portfolio managers to Morningstar, Manager Tenure will appear as a dash for the Fund.

Morningstar Analyst Rating

The Morningstar Analyst Rating provides an analyst's forward-looking assessment of a Fund's ability to outperform its peer group or a relevant benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over a full market cycle. A rating of Gold, Silver, or Bronze reflects an analyst's conviction in a Fund's prospects for outperformance. Analyst Ratings are continuously monitored and re-evaluated at least every 14 months.

More information can be found within Sectors & Ratings

Morningstar Category

The Morningstar Category classifications were introduced in 1996 to help investors make comparisons between mutual Funds. It assigns a cateogory based on the underlying securities in each portfolio.

The categories make it easier to build well-diversified portfolios, assess potential risk, and identify top-performing Funds. The Funds are placed in a given category based on their portfolio statistics and compositions over the past three years.

Morningstar Rating

The Morningstar rating or "star rating", is a purely quantitive, retrospective-looking measure of a Fund's past performance. Funds are rated from one to five stars, with the best performers receiving five stars and the worst performers receiving a single star. Star ratings are calculated at the end of every month.

More information can be found within Sectors & Ratings

Morningstar Risk

This is an assessment of the variations in a Fund's monthly returns in comparison to similar Funds.

In each Morningstar Category, the 10% of Funds with the lowest measured risk are described as Low Risk, the next 22.5% Below Average, the middle 35% Average, the next 22.5% Above Average, and the top 10% High. Morningstar Risk is measured for up to three time periods (three, five, and 10 years). These separate measures are then weighted and averaged to produce an overall measure for the Fund. Funds with less than three years of performance history are not rated.

Morningstar Sustainability Rating

The Morningstar Sustainability Rating is a measure of how well the holdings in a portfolio are managing their environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, risk and opportunity relative to their Morningstar Category peers. The Sustainability Rating is depicted by globe icons where high equals 5 globes and low equals 1 globe. Sustainability ratings are updated monthly.

More information can be found within Sectors & Ratings

Ongoing Charge (OCF)

This is the cost of investing in a Fund, expressed as a percentage of the value of your investment. It is used to pay for administration investment management and independent oversight of the Fund. It may also include commission paid to your intermediary.

It has replaced the TER (Total Expense Ratio) for all UCITS Funds and is commonly shown in the Key Investor Information Document (KIID). However, the industry is breaking down the charges further to provide the most accurate cost to invest in a Fund which is known as the Fund Manager Charge (FMC).

Sector

Morningstar divides stocks into 11 sectors according to their primary business, grouped into three larger Super Sectors. The Communication Services, Energy, Industrials and Technology sectors make up the Sensitive Super Sector; Healthcare, Consumer Defensive and Utilities make up the Defensive Super Sector; and Basic Materials, Consumer Cyclical, Financial Services and Real Estate form the Cyclical Super Sector.

Because sectors can differ greatly in their characteristics, comparing a Fund with its sector rather than the market as a whole is generally a better way of putting it in the proper context.

Yield

The yield is the income return on an investment, such as the interest or dividends received from a holding. The yield is usually expressed as an annual percentage rate.

YTD

YTD stands for 'Year-to-date' which is a period, starting from the beginning of the current year, and continuing up to the present day.

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