Legal & Regulatory

Please read this page before proceeding, as it explains certain restrictions imposed by law on the distribution of this information and the countries in which our funds are authorised for sale. It is your responsibility to be aware of and to observe all applicable laws and regulations of any relevant jurisdiction.

Please note that you are required to read and accept the terms of our Privacy Policy before you are able to access our websites.

Once you have confirmed that you agree to the legal information in this document, and the Privacy Policy – by indicating your consent above – we will place a cookie on your computer to recognise you and prevent this page reappearing should you access this site, or other Guardian Management Limited sites, on future occasions. The cookie will expire after six months. Guardian Management Limited reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time by placing amended terms and conditions on this website. If the terms and conditions are amended you will be required to read and indicate your consent of these terms and conditions of use again.

By confirming that you have read and accept these terms and conditions, you also:

(i) Agree that these terms and conditions will apply to any subsequent access to the “Intermediaries” section of this website by you, and that all such subsequent access will be subject to the disclaimers, risk warnings and other information set out in these terms and conditions and elsewhere on this website; and

(ii) Warrant that no other person will access the Intermediaries section of this website from the same computer and logon as you are currently using.

Information on this website is directed at intermediaries only. Guardian Management Limited will not be liable for any damages or losses suffered by any investors accessing areas of any Guardian Management Limited websites that are not appropriate for their investor type.

The funds described in the following pages are administered and managed by companies within the Guardian Management Limited Group and can be marketed in certain jurisdictions only. It is your responsibility to be aware of the applicable laws and regulations of your country of residence. Further information is available in the prospectus or other constitutional document for each fund. Please note that only some of the offshore funds seek distributor status in the UK.

This website and the information contained within it does not constitute an offer or solicitation to sell shares in any of the funds referred to on this site, by anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or distribution would be unlawful or in which the person making such offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so or to anyone to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.

Applications to invest in any fund referred to on this site, must only be made on the basis of the offer document relating to the specific investment (e.g. prospectus, key investor information document or other applicable terms and conditions).

As a result of money laundering regulations, additional documentation for identification purposes may be required when you make your investment. Details are contained in the relevant Prospectus or other constitutional document.

If you are unsure about the meaning of any information provided please consult your financial or other professional adviser. Any information relating to tax and tax treatment should not be considered advice or a recommendation to any client.

There may be risks involved with an investment in a Guardian Management Limited fund:

• Past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

• The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and are not guaranteed.

• You may not get back the amount you invested.

• Any favourable tax treatment of a product (including but not limited to ISAs) is subject to government legislation and as such may not be maintained.

• The levels and bases of, and reliefs from, taxation changed in the last Budget and may change in the future.

• Rates of exchange may cause the value of investments to go up or down.

• Fluctuation may be particularly marked in the case of a higher volatility fund and the value of an investment may fall suddenly and substantially.

• For your protection, telephone calls are usually recorded.

Please note that while some of the Guardian Management Limited funds are “ring-fenced”, others form part of a single company and are not. For Guardian Management Limited funds that are not ring fenced (i.e. those that do not have segregated liability status), in the event of a single Guardian Management Limited fund being unable to meet liabilities attributable to that Guardian Management Limited fund out of the assets attributable to it, the excess may be met out of the assets attributable to the other Guardian Management Limited funds within the same company. We refer you to the prospectus or other relevant terms and conditions of each Guardian Management Limited fund for further information in this regard.

The information contained on this site is subject to copyright with all rights reserved. It must not be reproduced, copied or redistributed in whole or in part. All intellectual and other property on this website remains the property of the Guardian Management Limited group of companies and no rights of any kind will pass to users of this website.

The information contained on this site is published in good faith but no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by Guardian Management Limited or by any person as to its accuracy or completeness and it should not be relied on as such. Guardian Management Limited shall have no liability, save for any liability that Guardian Management Limited may have under the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (or the name of any replacement legislation if the legislation permits such a statement to be made), for any loss or damage arising out of the use or reliance on the information provided including without limitation, any loss of profit or any other damage, direct or consequential. No information on this site constitutes investment, tax, legal or any other advice.

Where a claim is brought against Guardian Management Limited by a third party in relation to your use of this website, you hereby agree to fully reimburse Guardian Management Limited for all losses, costs, actions, proceedings, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses), or liabilities, whatsoever suffered or incurred directly by Guardian Management Limited as a consequence of improper use of this website. Neither party should be liable to the other for any loss or damage which may be suffered by the other party due to any cause beyond the first party’s reasonable control including without limitation any power failure.

You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to keep secure and confidential any passwords that may be issued to you and your authorised employees and not to let such password(s) become public knowledge. If any password(s) become known by someone other than you and your authorised employees, you must change those particular password(s) immediately using the function available for this purpose on the Website.

You may leave the Guardian Management Limited website when you access certain links on this website. In so doing, you may be proceeding to the site of an organisation that is not regulated under the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Guardian Management Limited Investment Management (UK) Limited has not examined any of these websites and does not assume any responsibility for the contents of such websites nor the services, products or items offered through such websites.

Guardian Management Limited shall have no liability for any data transmission errors such as data loss or damage or alteration of any kind, including, but not limited to, any direct, indirect or consequential damage, arising out of the use of the services provided herein.

Companies within the Guardian Management Limited Group which do not carry out investment business in the UK are not subject to the provisions of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Accordingly, investors entering into investment agreements with such companies will not have the protection afforded by that Act or the rules and regulations made under it, including the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of Guardian Management Limited as a whole or any part thereof, nor do they constitute investment or any other advice.

Any research found on these pages has been procured and may have been acted on by Guardian Management Limited for its own purposes.