Please be advised there will be an outage on the below dates.  

• Saturday 26^th October from 14:00 until Midday Sunday 27^th October  
• Saturday 9^th November from 14:00 until Midday Sunday 10^th November.  

Liontrust Asset Management PLC has completed the acquisition of Neptune Investment Management Ltd, which became effective on 1 October 2019.

The SS&C administered Neptune funds have been renamed to align with the Liontrust branding as shown in the below table:

There have been no changes to any further fund or settlement details at present and you can continue to trade in line with the current EMX and CTN hubs for Neptune.

Should you have any queries on this communication please contact the SS&C Distributor Client Services Team, our contact details can be found by clicking here.

The annual Chinese ‘Golden Week’ holiday period will take place from Tuesday 1 October to Monday 7 October 2019 inclusive. This means investors will be unable to buy, sell, switch or convert shares or units in the below affected fund until dealing recommences on Tuesday 8 October 2019.    

This applies to the following fund:    

ASI China A Share Equity Fund  

CRUX Asset Management Limited (“CRUX”) change of ACD from FundRock Partners Limited (“FPL”) to Thesis Unit Trust Management Limited (“TUTMAN”)     

The existing authorised corporate director ("ACD") of the CRUX funds, FPL is retiring and will be replaced by Tutman on 28^th September 2019 resulting in some changes applicable to the following funds:

GBP ISINs:

GB00BYQJX104

GB00BYQJX435

GB00BYQJXM18

GB00BYQJXV09

GB0030613276

GB00B56N2X45

GB00B05MF837

GB00B5839S67

GB00BF5LQ488

GB00BTJRPV05

GB00BTJRPW12

GB00BTJRPZ43

GB00BTJRQ064

GB00BG5Q5X24

GB00BG5Q5Y31

GB00BG5Q5Z48

GB00BG5Q5V00

EUR ISINs:

GB00BYQJXG57

GB00BYQJXH64

GB00BG5Q6065

GB00BTJRPX29

GB00BTJRQ171

In line with this change of ACD, we are communicating changes that will apply to existing holdings.

The account numbers held for your CRUX fund range will stay the same within the TUTMAN environment from 30^th September 2019. Any agent codes applied on accounts that hold Crux funds will also stay the same within the new environment.

Distributor Online Reporting

For accounts that you wish to be linked to Distributor Online Reporting, we will require new linking forms submitted to us alongside letters of authority. For forms that are provided to us prior to Friday 28^th September 2019 we will link the accounts in readiness for the live date. Any forms provided to us after this date will need to be submitted via our Distributor Online Reporting (DOLR) Team.

Automated Dealing

EMX:

Dealing will be suspended from 12pm on Friday 27^th September 2019 for all the above listed CRUX funds. The restrictions will apply to all the below FPL EMX hubs:

IFDS: GBP Funds

FUPA1: EUR Funds

Please be aware any trading submitted after the 12pm VP on Friday 27^th September will be rejected until the funds are re-opened from 9am on Monday 30^th September 2019 under TUTMAN:

GBP EMX participant ID: TUNIT 
Product code for Crux OEIC: 000127

EUR EMX participant ID: THUIT
Product code for Crux OEIC: 000126 

Calastone:

From 12pm on 27^th September 2019 the above mentioned funds will be suspended from trading. Please be aware any trading submitted after the 12pm on 27^th September will be rejected until the funds are re-opened at 9am on Monday 30^th September 2019 under TUTMAN.

Electronic Re-Reg:

We will be restricting Electronic Plan and ISA transfers (TeX transfers) for the CRUX funds. The last traded valuation point will be 20^th September 2019 and the service will be re-enabled from 9am on Monday 30^th September 2019 under TUTMAN. If you have any urgent transfers to be completed during this time please submit these by post to the administration address which can be found on www.dstdistributorportal.com

New Company Name: Thesis Asset Management (Crux)

Brand: Crux

Business Entity BIC (BIC11): ALUSGB21CRU

SWIFT DN: ou=cru,ou=atgfunds2,o=alusgb2l,o=swift

Manual Dealing and Settlement

Manual Dealing:

Please refrain from any manual dealing after 12pm on 27^th September 2019 and submit them from 9am on Monday 30^th September 2019 instead. Any trades submitted after 12pm on Friday 27^th September will be rejected due to the legal entity change of the ACD.

Settlement:

We will be closing CREST Settlement for the GBP CRUX funds prior to the transition. The last traded valuation point will be 12pm on Monday 23^rd September 2019. No CREST settlement will then take place following this time until CREST is re-enabled at 9am on Monday 30^th September.  Any trades placed after 12pm on Monday 23^rd September to 12pm on Friday 27^th September will need to be settled manually. We have contacted CREST users directly in line with this change.

CREST settlement will be re-opened on 30^th September 2019 under the following ID:

Registrar Participant ID:

1TUAJ
Sponsored Product Provider Participant ID:

R098

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

For updated contact details, bank details and forms please refer to the below link on the live date 30^th September 2019: https://www.dstdistributorportal.com/thesis

Further to the recent Shareholder Circular informing current donor shareclass unitholders of the proposed Corporate Action events, these actions were subsequently approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 22nd July 2019.  Dealing in the donor shareclasses will be suspended after the 12:00 VP on 22/08/2019 to allow the holdings in the donor shareclasses to be converted into the host share classes as detailed in the below table.

Should you have any queries on this communication please contact the DST Distributor Client Services Team, our contact details can be found by clicking here.

Further to the client notification letter that was sent on 24/05/2019 to notify the current unitholders of the upcoming closure, please be aware that the Absolute Return Bond Fund will be closed to dealing instructions at 12:00 on 23/07/19.

On 26/07/2019, the holdings in the closing shareclasses will be repurchased and the settlement proceeds will be issued to the unitholders.



Should you have any queries on this communication please contact the DST Distributor Client Services Team, our contact details can be found by clicking here.

Following the recent Investor mailing advising of the forthcoming fund closure,  please be aware that the fund detailed below will be closing on 21 August 2019 (the effective date).  Please note that dealing in the fund will cease from 12 noon on Tuesday 20th  August 2019 to allow for commencement of closure of the Fund on the effective date.

If you have any queries on this communication please contact the DST Distributor Client Services Team, our contact details can be found by clicking here.

Please note that the Investec OEIC Series iv Global Dividend Fund will be closing on Wednesday 7th August 2019. The final day for dealing is Tuesday 6th August 2019 and trade orders need to be received before the 12 noon valuation point on this day. Any investor remaining in the Fund on Wednesday 7th August 2018 will have their holding compulsorily redeemed on this day. 

Should you have any queries on this communication please contact the DST Distributor Client Services Team, our contact details can be found by clicking here.

DST have been working with Euroclear to enhance our EMX service, and move away from FIX to a new ISO connection.  As part of the preparation to achieve this, we will be implementing a change effective 8 July 2019.  

This change will result in DST no longer supporting account opening via EMX, which will be managed by making the account reference mandatory.  Therefore from Monday 8 July if the account reference field is blank when submitting an order, the request will be rejected.

Please ensure all relevant teams are aware of this change in readiness for 8 July 2019.

This affects the following Fund Groups

DST Financial Services Europe Limited (DST) will take over the administration of the following FundRock sponsors effective from 15th July 2019;

Foresight

Luceo

Miton

Mattioli Woods

Octopus (additional fund range)

From this date, the fund range will be held under EMX participant ID “IFDS” and Calastone trading BIC reference “CLAOGB2LFPW”. The funds applicable to this change are as follows:

The below are the product providers: 

000085  FP Luceo Inv OEIC

000086  FP Miton Income Fund

000088  FP Foresight OEIC

000089  Mattioli Woods ICVC

000092  FP Octopus Inv UCITS

Please note, If you previously held account level coverall with the previous administrator, this will NOT be applied to your holding within the FundRock environment. If we do NOT notify you that there is a client level coverall in place, we will require you to complete a new client level coverall and submit to us. New account numbers and clarification as to whether any coveralls in place will be communicated to you by Thursday 11^th July.

Electronic Re-Registration BICs are available on the electronic re-registration section of the 'documents and guides' tab.

Jupiter has received FCA approval for clarificatory changes to its fund objectives and policies and the introduction of non-dealing days. Please find attached a copy of the circular which we have posted to unitholders and agents on the 28th June 2019. We have also taken the opportunity in the circular to notify a change in the funds’ Depositary and fund accounting provider.

The Effective Date will the 6th September 2019. 

Copy of Circular

Notification of Change