HSBC - Euro Lower Carbon Government Bond UCITS ETF

The value of an investment in the portfolios and any income from them can go down as well as up and as with any investment you may not receive back the amount originally invested. 

• Counterparty Risk: The possibility that the counterparty to a transaction may be unwilling or unable to meet its obligations
• Credit Risk: A bond or money market security could lose value if the issuer’s financial health deteriorates
• Default Risk: The issuers of certain bonds could become unwilling or unable to make payments on their bonds
• Derivatives Risk: Derivatives can behave unexpectedly. The pricing and volatility of many derivatives may diverge from strictly reflecting the pricing or volatility of their underlying reference(s), instrument or asset
• Exchange Rate Risk: Changes in currency exchange rates could reduce or increase investment gains or investment losses, in some cases significantly
• Index Tracking Risk: To the extent that the Fund seeks to replicate index performance by holding individual securities, there is no guarantee that its composition or performance will exactly match that of the target index at any given time (“tracking error”)
• Interest Rate Risk: When interest rates rise, bond values generally fall. This risk is generally greater the longer the maturity of a bond investment and the higher its credit quality
• Investment Leverage Risk: Investment Leverage occurs when the economic exposure is greater than the amount invested, such as when derivatives are used. A Fund that employs leverage may experience greater gains and/or losses due to the amplification effect from a movement in the price of the reference source
• Liquidity Risk: Liquidity Risk is the risk that a Fund may encounter difficulties meeting its obligations in respect of financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or other financial assets, thereby compromising existing or remaining investors
• Operational Risk: Operational risks may subject the Fund to errors affecting transactions, valuation, accounting, and financial reporting, among other things
• Sustainability Risk: Sustainability risk means an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of the investment

Further information on the potential risks can be found in the Key Investor Information Document (KIID) and/ or the Prospectus or Offering Memorandum.

This document is exclusively intended towards professional investors within the meaning of Art. 4 para 3 letter a – g of the Swiss Financial Services Act (FinSA). It is not intended towards professional clients who are not institutional clients according to Art. 4 para 4 FinSA and who wish to declare to be treated as retail clients according to Art. 5 para 5 FinSA (opting in). There are further possibilities with regards to opting in and opting out according to FinSA, please refer to our website at https://www.assetmanagement.hsbc.ch/ if you wish to change your client categorization, please inform us. HSBC Global Asset Management (Switzerland) AG having its registered office at Gartenstrasse 26, PO Box, CH-8002 Zurich has a licence as an asset manager of collective investment schemes and as a representative of foreign collective investment schemes. Disputes regarding legal claims between the Client and HSBC Global Asset Management (Switzerland) AG can be settled by an ombudsman in mediation proceedings. HSBC Global Asset Management (Switzerland) AG is affiliated to the ombudsman FINOS having its registered address at Talstrasse 20, 8001 Zurich. There are general risks associated with financial instruments, please refer to the Swiss Banking Association (“SBA”) Brochure “Risks Involved in Trading in Financial Instruments”. For the HSBC Global Funds ICAV sub-funds that are authorized for offering, please refer to the list of foreign collective investment schemes authorized for offering in Switzerland in the meaning of Art. 120 of the Swiss Federal Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA) by the Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (FINMA) at Approved Institutes People and products | FINMA. (Potential) investors are kindly asked to consult the latest issued Key Information Document (KID), prospectus, articles of incorporation and the (semi-)annual report of the fund which may be obtained free of charge at the head office of the representative: HSBC Global Asset Management (Switzerland) AG, Gartenstrasse 26, P.O. Box, CH-8002 Zurich. Paying agent: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) S.A., Quai des Bergues 9-17, P. O. Box 2888, CH-1211 Geneva 1. Investors and potential investors should read and note the risk warnings in the prospectus and relevant KID. Before subscription, investors should refer to the prospectus for general risk factors and to the KID for specific risk factors associated with this fund. Issue and redemption expenses are not taken into consideration in the calculation of performance data.
The fund presented in this document is a sub-fund of HSBC Global Funds ICAV, an open-ended Irish collective asset management vehicle which is constituted as an umbrella fund with segregated liability between funds and with variable capital. The shares in HSBC Global Funds ICAV have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 and will not be sold or offered in the United States of America, its territories or possessions and all areas subject to its jurisdiction, or to United States Persons.
Past performance is no indication to future results of a fund. The performance data do not take account of the commissions and costs incurred on the issue and redemption of units.