Terms and Conditions

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The use of stewartinvestors.com (this “Website”) is subject to the following terms and conditions (the “Terms”). 

If you do not agree to these Terms, please refrain from using this Website.

Important information about access to this website

This Website and the information on it is communicated by Stewart Investors which is a trading name of First Sentier Investors (UK) Limited (when communicating in the UK), which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom, and of of First Sentier Investors (Ireland) Limited (when communicating within the European Economic Area (EEA)) , which is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, and of First Sentier Investors International IM Limited (when communicating outside the UK and EEA) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom. This Website uses cookies as described in paragraph 16 of these Terms and by agreeing to these Terms you consent to the use of cookies as described in that paragraph.

In the UK, this website is issued by First Sentier Investors (UK) Funds Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (registration number 143359). Registered office Finsbury Circus House, 15 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7EB number 2294743. In the EEA, this website is issued by First Sentier Investors (Ireland) Limited which is authorised and regulated in Ireland by the Central Bank of Ireland (registered number C182306) in connection with the activity of receiving and transmitting orders. Registered office: 70 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland, number 629188.

This Website (and the information on it) is directed only at persons who are Professional Clients or Eligible Counterparties for the purposes of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”) or as otherwise defined under applicable local regulations and at whom this Website (and any information on it) may lawfully be directed in any relevant jurisdiction. Access to this Website is not open to persons resident in, or citizens of any territory where, to allow such access would require any registration, filing, application for any licence or approval or other steps to be taken by Stewart Investors in order to comply with local laws or other regulatory requirements in such overseas territory. Please contact Stewart Investors if you require any further information on your status.

Investing involves certain risks including that the value of investments and any income from them may go down as well as up and are not guaranteed. Investors may get back significantly less than the original amount invested. For further information please expand the “Risk Warnings” section below. For a full description of the terms of investment and the risks please see the Prospectus and Key Investor Information Document which are available on the First Sentier Investors UK website: http://www.firstsentierinvestors.com. If you are in any doubt as to the suitability of our funds for your investment needs, please seek investment advice.

Following a UK departure from the European Union, First Sentier Investors ICVC (“OEIC”) has ceased to qualify as a UCITS scheme and is instead an Alternative Investment Fund (“AIF”) for European Union purposes under the terms of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (2011/61/EU). Accordingly, no marketing activities relating to the OEIC are being carried-out by Stewart Investors in the European Union (or the additional EEA states) and the OEIC is not available for distribution in those jurisdictions. This website does not constitute an offer or invitation or investment recommendation to distribute or purchase shares in the OEIC in the European Union (or the additional EEA states).

About this website

In the UK and outside the EEA, this Website is owned, maintained, operated and communicated by Stewart Investors. Stewart Investors’ registered office is at Finsbury Circus House, 15 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7EB. In the EEA this Website is owned, maintained, operated and communicated by Stewart Investors which is a trading name of First Sentier Investors (Ireland) Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland (the “CBI”). First Sentier Investor’s registered office is at 70 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland number 629188 (CBI registration number C182306). The information on this Website constitutes a financial promotion and an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity and/or a marketing communication.

This Website contains information about investment funds which are offered by Stewart Investors (the “Funds”) and which are registered, or have otherwise been notified, for public distribution and marketing in certain jurisdictions in the European Union / EEA. Please note that the fact of such registration does not mean that any regulator has determined that such Funds are suitable for all or any investors. The Funds referred to on this Website may not be suitable investments for you and you should therefore seek professional investment advice before making a decision to invest in any of the Funds. A prospectus and Key Investor Information Document (“KIID”) for each of the Funds is available on this Website. Contact details of the facilities where such documents are available are also set out on the web-page for the relevant Fund. 

Selling restrictions

The distribution of the information on this Website may be restricted by law in certain countries. This Website, and the information on it, are not addressed to any person resident in the territory of any country or jurisdiction where such distribution would be contrary to local law or regulation. By choosing to view or make use of this Website you do so on the basis that you have informed yourself of any regulatory or other consequences of your doing so.

No advice

The information on this Website is provided for information only and does not constitute, and should not be construed as, investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or otherwise transact in any investment including the Funds. The information on this Website is provided solely on the basis that you will make your own investment decisions and Stewart Investors has not taken any account of your particular investment objectives or financial situation in preparing the information on this Website. In addition, nothing in this Website shall, or is intended to, constitute financial, legal, accounting or tax advice. We strongly recommend that you seek professional investment advice before making any investment decision. Stewart Investors neither provides investment advice to, nor receives and transmits orders from, investors in the Funds.

Stewart Investors neither provides investment advice to, nor receives and transmits orders from, investors in the Funds nor does it carry on any other activities with or for such investors that constitute “Regulated Activities”, “investment services” or “ancillary services” for the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority Rules.

Performance information

All prices provided on this Website are indicative only. Such prices or values may not reflect actual prices or values that would be available in the market at the time provided or at the time you may decide to purchase or sell an interest in a particular Fund. Stewart Investors accepts no responsibility for updating such price information.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amount originally invested and may lose all of their investment. Exchange rate changes may cause the value of overseas investments to rise or fall. To the extent that any information on this Website refers to a particular tax treatment, such treatment depends on the individual circumstances of the investor and may be subject to change in the future.

Risk warnings

Any investment involves substantial risks. Further information about the types of risks associated with investment in the Funds referred to on this Website can be found here. The offering documents for each Fund also contain risk warnings which are specific to the relevant Fund and which you should consider carefully before taking any decision to invest. 

Offering documents

The terms of any investment in a Fund are governed by the documents establishing such terms. In the event of any inconsistency between the information on this Website and the terms specified in, or established pursuant to, the documents establishing the terms of issue or contract, the terms so specified or determined shall prevail. An application for interests in any of the Funds should only be made having fully and carefully read the relevant prospectus, the latest financial reports and other offering documents for the relevant Fund which are available on this Website and upon request from the fund representative in your jurisdiction. 

Information on this website

Information on this Website: Stewart Investors has taken reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this Website is accurate, current, complete, fit for its intended purpose and compliant with relevant legislation and regulations and, where applicable, the laws of the country of your residence as at the date of issue. However, errors or omissions may occur due to circumstances beyond Stewart Investors’ control and no warranty is given, or representation made, regarding the accuracy, validity or completeness of the information on this Website and no liability is accepted by such persons for the accuracy or completeness of such information. You must conduct your own due diligence and investigations rather than relying on any of the information in this Website. Any person who acts upon, or changes his or her investment position in reliance on, the information contained on this Website does so entirely at his or her own risk.

Information posted on this Website is current only as at the date it is first posted and may no longer be true or complete when viewed by you. Stewart Investors cannot guarantee that content will be accurate, complete and current at all times. To the extent that any information on this Website relates to a third party, such information has been provided by that third party and is the sole responsibility of such third party and Stewart Investors accepts no liability for such information. All content on the Website is subject to modification from time to time without notice. Please contact Stewart Investors for further information regarding the validity of any information contained on this Website.

To the extent that this Website contains any expression of opinion or forecast, such opinion or forecast is based on sources believed by Stewart Investors to be reliable, but is not guaranteed or warranted as to its current validity, accuracy or completeness. Opinions expressed represent the opinions of Stewart Investors at the date of publication only, reflecting prevailing market conditions and certain assumptions (which may not prove to be valid), are subject to change and should not be relied on by users of the Website.

Certain content (the “Restricted Content”) on this Website including, but not limited to, webcasts shall be made available only on the granting of permission by Stewart Investors or a third party appointed by Stewart Investors. Stewart Investors reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, not to grant access to such Restricted Content. Where you are granted access to such Restricted Content, such access is granted for your personal use only. You must treat this Restricted Content as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party or allow any third party to access such Restricted Content. Stewart Investors may revoke access to the Restricted Content in its absolute discretion at any time without notice.

Material interests

Stewart Investors, its affiliates and its or their directors, officers, employees or agents may have holdings in the Funds and/or underlying investments of the Funds and may otherwise be interested in transactions in those Funds. Further details about the policies that Stewart Investors has adopted in order to avoid or to manage such conflicts in a way that ensures fair treatment for Stewart Investors’ clients are available from Stewart Investors on request.

Linked websites

Links to websites operated by third parties are provided for information only and do not constitute any form of advice, endorsement or recommendation of such websites or the material on them. Stewart Investors accepts no responsibility for information contained on any other sites which can be accessed by hypertext link from this Website or for these sites not being available at all times. Stewart Investors has not reviewed, and will not review or update, such websites or information and any use that you make of such websites and information is at your own risk. Please note that when you click on any external site hypertext link you will leave this Website.

Liability

No warranty is given that the contents of this Website are compatible with all computer systems or browsers or that this Website shall be available on an uninterrupted basis. Stewart Investors does not accept any liability for any damages or losses arising from changes or alterations made to this Website by unauthorised third parties.

The internet is not a completely reliable transmission medium and neither Stewart Investors nor any of its affiliates accept any liability for any data transmission errors such as data loss or damage or alteration of any kind or for the security or confidentiality of information transmitted across the internet to or from Stewart Investors or any of its affiliates. Any such transmission of information is entirely at your own risk and any material downloaded from this Website is downloaded at your own risk.

The information on this Website is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by law, Stewart Investors, its affiliates and its and their directors, officers, employees and agents expressly exclude all conditions, warranties, representations and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity. Stewart Investors and its affiliates will only be liable to you in respect of any direct losses arising from your use of, or inability to use, this Website in the event of Stewart Investors’ gross negligence, wilful default or fraud. In no event will Stewart Investors or any of its affiliates be liable to any person for any indirect, special or consequential damages arising out of any use of, or inability to use, this Website or the information contained on it or on any other hyper-linked site including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or data on your equipment or otherwise, even if Stewart Investors is expressly advised of the possibility or likelihood of such damages. This does not affect Stewart Investors’ liability for any loss or damage which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or restrict any duty or liability that Stewart Investors has to its clients under applicable local regulatory rules or which may not be excluded or restricted as a matter of applicable law. 

Access

Stewart Investors reserves the right to suspend or withdraw access to any page(s) included on this Website without notice at any time and accepts no liability if, for any reason, these pages are unavailable at any time or for any period. 

Compliance with law and regulation

When using this Website you must comply with all applicable local, national and international laws including those related to data privacy, international communications and exportation of technical or personal data. It may be illegal to download the information contained on this Website in certain countries and Stewart Investors, its affiliates and its and their directors, officers, employees and agents disclaim all responsibility if you download any information from this Website in breach of any law or regulation of the country in which you reside. 

Intellectual property

(a) Unless otherwise specified, Stewart Investors is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in and to this Website, its content and the information, imagery and data published on it including but not limited to copyright and trade mark rights (whether registered or unregistered). Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights, save as expressly granted, are reserved. 

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, no warranty or indemnity is given that the use of the Website, or any information or material taken or downloaded from the Website will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. 

(c) Reproduction in any form of any part of the content, information, imagery or data from, or underlying, this Website, save for in strict compliance with these Terms, is prohibited without the prior written consent of Stewart Investors. All such intellectual property rights shall continue to be held by Stewart Investors or its licensors and no rights of any kind in such rights shall pass to you. 

(d) The information held on this Website is for your own personal use only. You may print off or download copies of, or extracts from, pages from this Website for your personal reference but you must not modify those copies or extracts in any way. Stewart Investors (and any identified contributors), as the authors of material on this Website, must always be acknowledged. 

(e) Notwithstanding paragraph (d) above, to the extent that you are a financial advisor, you may use the information available on this Website and provide copies of documents available on the Website to make recommendations to your clients, however such information is not intended for direct use by members of the public. 

(f) Any unauthorised downloading, re-transmission or other copying or modification of any of the contents of the Website may be in breach of statutory or common law rights which could be the subject of legal action. Stewart Investors disclaims all liability which may result from any unauthorised reproduction or use of the information on the Website. 

(g) All trade marks, service marks, company names or logos are the property of their respective holders. The display of any trade names or trade marks on the Website does not imply that any licence has been granted to any third party in respect of the same. Any use by you of these marks, names and/or logos may constitute an infringement of the holders’ rights.

The internet

Please note that there is no guarantee that any email sent by you will be received by us, or that the contents of any such email will remain private during internet transmission. Any information is sent at your own personal risk.

Data protection

Please see our Privacy Notice for information relating to how Stewart Investors and other companies associated with it protect your personal data. In agreeing to these Terms you agree to the terms of our Privacy Notice.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device used to access the internet, whenever you visit a website. We use cookies to enable and improve certain functions on our website and gain feedback on how our website is used. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it will affect how our website works.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise the device you are using. As Stewart Investors and its associated companies are based in various jurisdictions and operate different websites for each regional business, we use cookies to store general information such as the region where you are based, the language the site is being viewed in (for example English, Chinese) and the type of client you are. This helps us to tailor our website to better suit your requirements. The Cookies we use here are ‘session’ cookies and will be removed every time you leave our website.

When you enter our website, you will be asked to accept some Terms and Conditions and a Cookie will remember if you have accepted them. This means that you don’t have to re-accept them on every visit. The Cookies we use here are ‘persistent’ as they remember your preferences. Every time we amend our Terms and Conditions, or on an annual basis, a new Cookie will be set and you will be asked to re-accept our Terms and Conditions.

We use analytics cookies to collect information on website activity (such as the number of users who visit our website, the date and time of visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what country and what systems users have used to access the site and, when entering our website from another website, the address of that web site). This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide us with statistics that can be used to analyse and improve our website. These Cookies are ‘session’ cookies.

The browsers of most computers, smartphones and other web–enabled devices are usually set up to accept cookies. If your browser preferences allow it, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when cookies are set. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn about how to change your cookie preferences. 
However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our website. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it will affect how our website works and certain functionality may not work.

More information about cookies can be found on allaboutcookies.org.

Amendment

Stewart Investors may delete or make changes to these Terms and to the information contained on this Website at any time. Where we make any changes to these Terms, you will be required to accept such changes in order to continue to use the Website. If you do not accept such revised Terms, you may no longer be able to access this Website.

If any provision of these Terms is found by any court or authority of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or invalid under the laws of any jurisdiction, the legality, validity or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms in that jurisdiction shall not be affected and the legality, validity and enforceability of the whole of these Terms in any other jurisdiction shall not be affected. 

Applicable law

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising from or connected with them shall be governed by, and these Terms shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of England and Wales.  

Jurisdiction

You agree that in the UK and outside the EEA that English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction and in the EEA that Irish courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any legal action or proceedings arising out of or in connection with these Terms (whether arising out of or in connection with contractual or non-contractual obligations) (“Proceedings”) and waive any objection to Proceedings in such courts on the grounds of venue or on the grounds that Proceedings have been brought in an inappropriate forum. You further agree that this paragraph operates for the benefit of Stewart Investors and accordingly Stewart Investors shall be entitled to take Proceedings in any other court or courts having jurisdiction.

Terms and Conditions

If you have any enquiries in relation to this Website or the information on it, please contact Stewart Investors at [email protected]