DST will be completing a system migration affecting accounts held under the T. Rowe Price OEIC fund range. As a result, the OEIC ACD will be changing to TRP UK on 11th March 2019. To coincide with the system migration, new account numbers will be generated for existing holdings for use on and after Monday 11 March 2019. To facilitate this update we will also be restricting STP trading in the afternoon of 8 March 2019.
 

Automated Dealing - EMX & Calastone:

After the 12:00 VP on 8 March 2019 we will be restricting trading through both EMX and Calastone. Any trading submitted after the above VP will be rejected until the funds are re-opened on 11 March 2019. Please ensure your trades are resubmitted using the new account numbers we will provide to you shortly.

As of Monday 11 March 2019, when trading on EMX you will need to use the new Product Number “000001” as the old Product Number “ProductTRP” will no longer be in use.

Automated Dealing – SWIFT:

Any SWIFT trades instructed after the 12:00 VP on 8 March 2019 will not be placed. Please ensure your trades are resubmitted on 11 March 2019 using the new account numbers we will provide to you shortly.

Manual Dealing - Telephone, Fax and Post:

Telephone deals instructed after the 12:00 VP on 8 March 2019 will not be placed and need to be reinstructed on Monday 11 March 2019.

Trades instructed via fax or post will be held and placed on Monday 11 March 2019. The PO Box address and fax number will be updated for all trades instructed on and after Monday 11 March 2019. The relevant pages on www.dstdistributorportal.com will be updated with any changes to the contact details.

Settlement: Trades placed up to and on Friday 8 March 2019 can continue to be settled to the current bank details you have on file. All trades placed on or after Monday 11th March 2019 (settling 14 March 2019 onwards) will need to be settled to the following bank details:   



 We have updated the bank details provided on https://www.dstdistributorportal.com/fund-groups/item/t-rowe-price in line with this change.

Please ensure you have made all relevant internal parties aware of these changes and updates are made in line with the dates above.

Due to the merger activities of non-sterling share classes between M&G Securities Ltd and M&G International Investments SA, M&G have announced the dealing suspension of related Sterling share classes of the M&G Optimal Income Fund at 12:00pm noon on 07/03/2019 until 11/03/2019. The individual share classes and market identifiers are shown on the following pages.

Operational Details:

• Deals received for these share classes during the suspension period will be queued and placed at the first valuation point following the unsuspension.
• Stock transfer requests will continue to be accepted but will not be processed during the suspension period.
• Other features of these share classes will continue to function including distribution accruals, rebate accruals and pricing.
• The share classes will be priced and published as usual on 08/03/2019.
• Prices will not be calculated on 11/03/2019 but published prices will be issued on this date which will be the same as the prices made on 08/03/2019.
• Usual pricing will resume on 12/03/2019.
• All sterling share classes of M&G’s other OEIC funds are not affected by these dealing suspensions and will operate as business as usual.

Effective 1 March 2019 the following changes will be made to the Invesco Global Distribution Fund (UK):  

• Fund name changes to Invesco Global Income Fund (UK)  
• Flexibility to invest up to 60% in equities (currently 40% max)  
• Distribution type changes from interest to dividend   
• Investment Series name changes name from ‘Invesco Fixed Interest 2 Investment Series’ to ‘Invesco 3 Investment Series’ (this will also affect the Invesco Global Emerging Markets Bond Fund (UK) that resides within this Investment Series)  

Please click here for further details of the notice.