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General advice only
Forager Funds Management Pty Ltd (Forager) provides general information to help you understand our investment approach. Any financial advice we provide has not considered your personal circumstances and may not be suitable for you. Before deciding whether to acquire or continue to hold a product, you should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), any ASX notice and seek independent advice from investment and taxation professionals to determine if the product is appropriate for your needs.
Product Disclosure Statement
The Trust Company (RE Services) Limited (ABN 45 003 278 831 and AFSL No. 235150) is the Responsible Entity and the issuer of the Forager Australian Shares Fund (ARSN No. 139 641 491) and the Forager International Shares Fund (ARSN No. 161 843 778). The PDS and Target Market Determination (TMD) for the Forager Australian Shares Fund and the Forager International Shares Fund are available here.
Performance
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The Trust Company (RE Services) Limited and Forager does not guarantee investment performance or distributions, and the value of your investment may rise or fall.
Disclaimer
To the extent permitted by law, The Trust Company (RE Services) Limited and Forager, their officers, employees, consultants, advisers and authorised representatives, are not liable for any loss or damage arising as a result of any reliance placed on this document. Information has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but we do not represent it is accurate or complete, and it should not be relied upon as such.
The Responsible Entity of Forager Australian Shares Fund has determined that it will rely on ASIC CO 13/655 as from 20 April 2022.
Forward Looking Statements
Forward-looking statements are those which reflect the expectations of Forager about the future prospects of companies held within the portfolios of the funds. Whilst Forager considers its expectations to be based on reasonable grounds, there is no guarantee that those expectations will be met. Actual performance of the portfolio companies will be impacted by a variety of factors, including circumstances that cannot be foreseen or are beyond Forager’s control, and could differ significantly. Forager assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Enquiries and Complaints
The Trust Company (RE Services) Limited (the Responsible Entity of the Funds) has established procedures for dealing with complaints. If an investor has a complaint, they can contact the Responsible Entity or the Investment Manager during business hours.
The Responsible Entity will use reasonable endeavours to deal with and resolve the complaint within a reasonable time but in any case, no later than 30 days after receipt of the complaint. Other type of complaints and complex complaints may have a different maximum response timeframe. We will let you know if a different maximum response timeframe will apply to your complaint.
If an investor is not satisfied with the outcome, the complaint can be referred to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). The AFCA provides a fair and independent financial services complaint resolution service that is free to consumers.
Website: www.afca.org.au
Email: info@afca.org.au
Telephone: 1800 931 678
Address: Australian Financial Complaints Authority, GPO Box 3, Melbourne VIC 3001
All investors (regardless of whether you hold Units in the Fund directly or hold Units indirectly via a Platform) can access the Responsible Entities of the Fund’s complaints procedures outlined above. If investing via a Platform and your complaint concerns the operation of the Platform then you should contact the Platform operator directly.
Sending Documents to you
The Trust Company (RE Services) Limited, the Responsible Entity of Forager Australian Shares Fund will ensure that following recent amendments to the Corporations Act, where you have provided us with your email address, we will now send notices of meetings, other meeting-related documents and annual financial reports (each a “Communication”) to you electronically unless you elect to receive these in physical form and notify us of this election.
You have the right to elect whether to receive some or all of these Communications in electronic or physical form and the right to elect not to receive annual financial reports at all. You also have the right to elect to receive a single specified Communication on an ad hoc basis, in an electronic or physical form.
Links
Our websites and emails may contain links to websites not owned or operated by Forager. We do not accept liability for the availability or content of these sites and urge you to read their terms and conditions before use. Following a link to and using any of these websites is done entirely at your own risk.
Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions of use are governed by and are to be construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales. By accepting these Terms and Conditions of use, you agree to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia in respect of any proceedings concerning these Terms and Conditions of use.
Prices
All figures and amounts displayed on this website are in Australian dollars. All asset values are historical figures based on our most recent valuations. As pricing frequencies and valuation methodologies differ for the various types of assets, the asset values shown may not be current and, therefore, you shouldn’t rely on them as the basis for trading investments in your account.
Australian and New Zealand investors only
The information is provided for Australian residents or citizens who are currently located in Australia, and New Zealand residents or citizens who are currently located in New Zealand only. The information is not an invitation to enter into any legal agreement of any kind. No statement or information in this website constitutes a recommendation, offer or invitation to invest in any investments, securities or products of Forager.
Forager Funds Management Pty Ltd, ABN 78 138 351 345, is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the requirements of the Australian Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). We maintain a clear policy concerning any personal information we hold about you. We consider personal information to be any information which could be used to identify you.
Why do we collect personal information?
We collect your personal information to provide you with the products and services you request from us. We will use such information only for business purposes. For example, we may use your personal information to: assist you with any queries and complaints; keep you informed about our products; and arrange for services to be provided by third parties. We obtain the information either directly from you through a variety of forms and applications and from ongoing communications with you. We may also obtain information from other related sources.
Remember, it’s your choice to provide your personal information and you may opt out of our communications at any time. If you would like to: opt out of our communications; update or correct the personal information we hold about you; or complain about a breach of privacy, please refer to Contact details below.
What personal information do we ask for?
The types of personal information we may collect include name, address, phone number, email address, CHESS account details, website activity, email interaction and other interactions with Forager (for example, event attendance, individual email correspondence or transaction history). If you choose not to provide the information we need to fulfil your request for a specific product or service, we may not be able to provide you with the requested product or service.
Our disclosure and information practices
We only collect personal information by fair and lawful means. This means we aim never to be unreasonably intrusive when it comes to dealing with you. We may share your personal information with our staff and contractors or third-party service providers. They are required to respect the confidential nature of your personal information and protect it from misuse.
Some of the third-party service providers that we share your personal information with may be located in, or have operations in, other countries. As a result, your personal information may be stored or accessed overseas, including countries within the European Union, the United Kingdom, Asia and the United States of America.
You can gain access to the information we hold about you at any time. We endeavour to keep the information you supply us accurate and up to date. If you feel the information we hold about you is incorrect please contact us and we will amend your details immediately.
If it is your preference, and it is practicable to do so, we can interact with you anonymously.
Should you request us to do so, we will archive your details and you should not hear from us again.
From time to time we may inform you of products and services we feel you may wish to know about. Please let us know if you do not wish us to do this.
How do we store your personal information?
We understand that you require peace of mind when it comes to the security of using the Internet and electronic storage of your personal details. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure your personal details are safe. The information you have provided us with is held in a secure database, protected from unauthorised access. Our employees and service providers are required to respect the confidential nature of your personal details and protect them from misuse.
If at any time you believe we have not adhered to these principles please let us know and we will make every effort to review and correct any problems. If you have any queries regarding your privacy please do not hesitate to contact us.
How do we use cookies and web analytics?
Forager uses cookies to provide you with a better website experience. Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on your device. This data provides information about your use of those websites. For example, where you have been on our site and from which external site you arrived at the Forager site. We use cookies for a number of purposes including tracking website usage and determining if you’ve previously been on the website. We will use the information from the Forager website cookies to serve you content we believe will be more interesting to you.
We also track where and when Forager investors first entered their details into our website. We do this so we can identify trends of popular content that might lead to a future relationship with Forager. The aim of this is to serve future potential investors with advertising and website content that they will find more interesting and engaging.
Details of current web users and users who have entered their details into our website may be used for marketing purposes and decision making when looking for new users that our website may appeal to.
For analytical purposes, we also collect information about our website usage. For example, we anonymously survey traffic patterns to and from the website including the date of the visit, the time spent on the site and the number of pages viewed. This information is aggregated by third party software and we use this information to help improve our website.
Third party websites
Forager’s website provides links to external third-party websites. These external sites are not covered by our privacy statement. You should review each external website’s privacy statement when using such sites.
Contact details
You can contact our Privacy Officer at admin@foragerfunds.com.au or on 02 8320 0555 to:
Complaints
We aim to meet high standards but understand there may be times when you wish to make a complaint. If you would like to make a complaint about how your personal information is handled please contact us and we will try to proactively resolve the issue identified. If the resolution is not satisfactory, please contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au or on 1300 363 992.
If you would like to complain to about the financial services provided please refer to our Financial Services Guide.
This Cookie Policy was last updated on August 19, 2021 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://foragerfunds.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Advertising cookies
On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your behavior on https://foragerfunds.com. With these cookies you, as website visitor, are linked to a unique ID but these cookies will not profile your behavior and interests to serve personalized ads.
5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.
5.5 Social media
On our website, we have included content from Facebook and Twitter to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook and Twitter and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Twitter are located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Allow All Cookies", you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in the pop-up and this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Forager Funds Management Pty Ltd (ABN 78 138 351 345)
PO Box R1848
Royal Exchange NSW 1225
Australia
Australia
Website: https://foragerfunds.com
Email: admin@foragerfunds.com
Phone number: +61 (2) 8305 6050
This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on March 8, 2024.