SVM Asset Management - Funds - All Europe SRI Fund

Key Objectives

Performance: The Fund will seek to outperform the FTSE World Europe Index.

Engagement: The Fund will adopt a positive engagement approach toward investment and enter into meaningful and consistent dialogue with companies to ensure investors in the Fund have their assets working effectively.

SVM All Europe Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund is a concentrated portfolio of Pan European equities designed to provide long term growth. The Fund is managed by Neil Veitch and Hugh Cuthbert who between then have over 14 years experience in SRI. The Fund will aim to deliver superior performance through our proven stock selection capabilities whilst seeking to ensure that the companies invested in are monitored and engaged with on ethical, governance, environmental and social issues.

The Fund will employ a limited amount of negative screening and will not invest in any of the following industries: Tobacco; Pornography; Armaments. The Fund’s emphasis is on positive ‘engagement’. We define ‘engagement’ as entering into meaningful dialogue with company management and using the power vested in us as shareholders to ensure management work to improve their polices.

Read more on our approach to SRI in our Socially Responsible Investment Statement

We are pleased to announce increased flexibility on pricing across the entire SVM Retail OEIC Fund range by enhancing initial commission up to 5.25%.

The offer will run from 1st October 2009 until further notice while we await the publication of the Retail Distribution Review. It allows intermediaries to rebate up to 5.25% of their commission to clients, so if an adviser is remunerated on a fee basis they can choose not to take any commission and give their clients access to SVM's funds with no initial charge.

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(Details as at 31 July 2010)

	Price	Date
Retail Share Class A	132.40 p	01 Sep 2010
Institutional Share Class B	136.40 p	01 Sep 2010

The prices for the Fund are calculated at 12 noon each day. The Fund operates on a forward pricing basis.

Please note that the above prices are for information purposes only and are not necessarily the price at which the Fund can be bought or sold.

The Fund was launched on 31 October 2006.

Fund Codes

	Sedol	ISIN	MEX
Retail Share Class A	B1FL7S1	GB00B1FL7S17	SXSRIA
Institutional Share Class B	B1FL7V4	GB00B1FL7V46	SXSRIB

SVM has won the following award:

Lipper Fund Awards 2008
Best Overall Group – Equity Small category

The All Europe SRI Fund has the following rating:

Lipper: Total Return

SVM All Europe SRI Fund - Neil Veitch and Hugh Cuthbert

Neil is joint manager of the All Europe SRI Fund and has experience in SRI investing at his previous employer where he managed the successful Orange Sense Fund. He has 14 years experience in investment management and is also lead manager on the top performing SVM UK Opportunities Fund. Neil holds a BA (Hons) in Economics, an MSc in Investment Management and is qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Hugh has more than 13 years experience in Socially Responsible Investment.Prior to joining SVM he was instrumental in the launch of Kempen’s award winning Orange Sense Fund. Prior to Kempen he also worked at Henderson Global Investors where he helped manage the Global Care range of funds.At SVM Hugh is responsible for managing the SVM Continental Europe Fund and will be joint manager of the SVM All Europe SRI Fund.

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Socially Responsible & Corporate Governance Analyst - Craig Jeruzal

Prior to joining SVM Craig was senior analyst responsible for all SRI research at Kempen Capital Management, where he worked with Hugh Cuthbert and Neil Veitch on the Orange Sense Fund for three years.His responsibilities include the research, engagement and scoring of all potential investments for the SVM All Europe SRI Fund.Craig holds a MA (Hons) Politics, Edinburgh University and the Investment Management Certificate.

The Fund aims to achieve medium to long-term capital growth and to outperform the FTSE World Europe Index. It adopts a positive engagement approach toward investment and enters into meaningful dialogue with companies regarding social and environmental issues. Investments are made in European stocks and other permitted securities.