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Allianz Global Investors Cookies Policy

Last Updated: 09/2023

 

Through this Cookies Policy we, Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific Limited, 32/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong ("Allianz Global Investors" or "We"), inform you about how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website (“Website”).  For more information on how we collect, process and use personal data, please see our Data Protection Policy on this Website. 

Cookies and Similar Technologies 
Cookies.  We use cookies to make our Website function smoothly and optimally for our users and to continuously improve its operation. Cookies are small text files that contain a sequence of alphanumeric characters, which are stored on your device. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookies is deleted when you close your internet browser. A persistent cookies remains stored even after the internet browser has been closed, and can be used by your internet browser on subsequent visits to our Website. Your internet browser may well offer settings for cookies. Please note that you may not be able to make full use of the features in the services offered on our Website if you either delete cookies or choose not to allow them. We also use third-party cookies in connection with the services provided through our Website. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytical data. We may not process or react to “Do not track” signals from internet browsers or similar processes that indicate that a user visiting our website or using the services provided through our Website does not want to be tracked online. A list of the cookies used on our Website, including their purpose and the data stored in each case, can be found in the table below. Your consent to the intended use is required before placing and using cookies on your device. This consent can also be given by adjusting your browser settings accordingly.

Clear GIFs/Web Beacons.  Clear GIFs (also known as web beacons) are typically very small transparent graphics (typically 1 pixel x 1 pixel) used on a website which can be used within the scope of the services we offer on our Website and are typically used in conjunction with cookies to track our users and their usage patterns. 

How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies 
We use cookies and we automatically collect information in order to: (1) personalise our Website and the services we offer on our Website, e.g. to save data related to you so that you do not need to re-enter this data while using our Website, or on your next visit to our Website or when you use services provided on the Website; (2) provide you with customised advertising, content and information; (3) monitor and analyse the effectiveness of our Website and the services provided on our Website, as well as third party promotional activities; (4) produce aggregate usage statistics, such as total number of visitors and page views; and (5) track your entries and the status of promotions or other activities and services offered via our Website. Tracking technologies also help us to maintain and improve the usability of the Website (1) by determining whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past, and (2) by identifying the most popular areas of our Website.

Further details can be found in the table below:

Name File(s) Description  Period of Validity  Opt-out  Cookies Type / Other Technology
Facebook Pixel Facebook Pixel This Website uses Facebook Pixel, an Advertising and Analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”). Facebook Pixel uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the Website after visiting our Hong Kong Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/AllianzGIHK/. Facebook Pixel also uses cookies to advertise for audiences, conversions, targeting and optimisation in Facebook and Instagram, and store advertising and analytics data in the Company’s Hong Kong Facebook fan page account.  365 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
PageDisclaimerCookie PageDisclaimerCookie This cookies stores information about when (what time) a visitor accepted the Terms and Conditions on the Website.  30 days No Application cookies
Google Analytics _ga
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This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the Website. Information generated by the cookies about your use of this Website is transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In the event of activated IP anonymisation on this Website, your IP address is initially truncated within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this Website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website in order to compile reports about website activities and provide further services to the website operator related to website and Internet usage. The IP address transferred from your browser by Google Analytics will not be linked with any other data held by Google. IP anonymisation is enabled on this website.  Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. However, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. You can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting this data by refusing to give your consent to the use of the technology, or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in for your internet browser available at the following link, thereby withdrawing your consent for the future. http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.  Third party cookies
 AllianzGIRoleCookie  AllianzGIRoleCookie When visiting the Website, a visitor must select a “role” (e.g.: financial advisor, individual investor). This individual role ID is stored in the cookies.  30 days No Application cookies 
AllianzGIRoleLevelTnCCookie AllianzGIRoleLevelTnCCookie This cookies stores information about the role ID, the Terms and Conditions page ID for the respective web page, and the exact time at which the role was accepted.  30 days No Application cookies 
PageTermsAndConditionCookie PageTermsAndConditionCookie This cookies stores information about whether a visitor accepted the Terms and Conditions on the website. This includes the web page ID to which the Terms and Conditions apply. 30 days
 No Application cookies
Disclaimer_cookie  Disclaimer_cookie  This cookies stores information about whether a visitor accepted the Cookies Policy Information.
 30 days
 No Application cookies
recentSearch  recentSearch 
 This cookies stores the search words used in searches (during a browser session).
 Browser session 
 No
 Application cookies
germany#lang
 germany#lang This cookies stores information about the language preferences for a website. 
 Browser session  No Application cookies
FundsInMyWatchList FundsInMyWatchList
 This cookies stores the respective Fund IDs from a watch list.
 30 days   No
 Application cookies 
Sitecore  • ASP.NET_SessionId 

• SC_ANALYTICS_ 

• GLOBAL_COOKIE 

• BIGipServerEU_ EXT_WEB_prod_ allianzgi_com_443 .app~EU_EXT_ WEB_prod_allianzgi _com_443_pool 

• BIGipServer~ WEB~EU_WEB_ prod_allianzgi_com_ 443.app~EU_WEB_ prod_allianzgi_com _443_pool 

The information collected by Allianz Global Investors through the Sitecore cookies allows us to analyse the browsing behaviour of users on the Allianz Global Investors Website, and in particular allows us to provide you with a better experience over time when using the web pages on the Sitecore-based website. The aim is to improve the content and facilitate the use of the Website. For example, we use cookies to store the following information: 

1. Language and country
2. Browser settings and browser extensions (plug-ins)
3. Use of this Sitecore-based website
4. Role selected to browse this Website
5. Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions
6. Search terms used on this Website

The cookies allow the Allianz Global Investors Website (a Sitecore-based platform) to save your settings and avoid asking for the same information each time you visit the Allianz Global Investors Website.  It also allows data to be stored across multiple sessions (to ensure that the data is available even when the browser is closed and reopened).
 Session


No
 Application cookies  
AddThis
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 AddThis is a third-party extension (plug-in) providing a number of technical processes on a website that allow website users to share, follow, view, recommend and interact with content, and which allows AddThis to collect information about the user of the website collected during the user’s visit to the website. 
 255 days
 You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website. 
 Third party cookies
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AddThis tools collect information on websites. They do not identify individuals directly, but instead they are designed to identify the device used by the website user to interact with the website. When a website user visits our Website, the AddThis tools collect data using cookies and pixels (Clear GIFs/Web Beacons). If a website user uses the AddThis tools on the website to share information or content (e.g. to share content on Facebook), the website user will be redirected through this Website before arriving at his or her destination website. The following information in particular is collected: 

• Internet protocol address (IP address), Mobile Ad ID (MAID), browser type, browser language, type of operating system, date and time of the website user’s visit to the website and his behavior on the website, such as the duration of the visit to the website;

• The internet search performed by the website user to find and access the website;

• Information about how many times a website user makes use of the AddThis tools;

• Geolocation data (position data) derived from the internet protocol address (IP address)

The following is a description of the types of cookies used by the AddThis tools on websites:

• Analysis Cookies – AddThis submits an analytic cookies to the website user when the website user visits a website that helps AddThis to gain insight into the website user’s activity on a website, for example how regularly the website user’s device accesses the website, or how the website user’s device interacts with the website.

• Market Research Cookies – AddThis places a market research cookies on the website user’s device when the website user visits a website, or enables AddThis partners to use such a cookies.  Market research cookies are similar to analytic cookies because they measure how regularly a website user visits a website.  These cookies also allow market research companies to measure the success of certain marketing campaigns by collecting aggregated data across multiple websites.  

• Targeted advertising cookies – if a website user visits a website that uses the AddThis tools, AddThis also stores a targeted advertising cookie on the website user’s device which helps AddThis to display individualised advertising for the website user, or to facilitate the display of such advertising and finally, to track how many advertising sites website users have 


255 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website.   Third party cookies
Google Floodlight Tag  Google Floodlight Tag Floodlight tag is used for conversion and event tracking across Google Marketing Platform to track conversions from both display and search advertising. 

Floodlight recognizes users by their cookie ID or device ID, which becomes the user ID. Floodlight records the user ID after any impression, click, or other activity that results in a call to our servers and this information can be used by Floodlight for conversion attribution. 		 Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
LinkedIn Insight Tag  LinkedIn Insight Tag The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that is added to the website to enable in-depth campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about  website visitors. Allianz Global Investors can use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about LinkedIn members interacting with ads.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to Allianz Global Investors website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. The IP addresses are truncated or hashed (when used for reaching members across devices), and members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous. This remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days.

LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their account settings.		 365 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
DoubleClick  DoubleClick Google Ad Manager use cookies to improve advertising, to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

The third-party cookies used by Google Ad Manager for advertising purposes may be associated with the doubleclick.net or country-specific Google domains such as google.com.		 Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
YouTube  YouTube YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies

 

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  • Allianz Global Investors Fund (“AGIF”)

    • Allianz Global Investors Fund (“AGIF”) as an umbrella fund under the UCITS regulations has within it different sub-funds investing in fixed income securities, equities, and derivative instruments, each with a different investment objective and/or risk profile.

    • All sub-funds (“Sub-Funds”) may invest in financial derivative instruments (“FDI”) which may expose to higher leverage, counterparty, liquidity, valuation, volatility, market and over the counter transaction risks. A Sub-Fund’s net derivative exposure may be up to 50% of its NAV. 

    • Some Sub-Funds as part of their investments may invest in any one or a combination of the instruments such as fixed income securities, emerging market securities, and/or mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, property-backed securities (especially REITs) and/or structured products and/or FDI, exposing to various potential risks (including leverage, counterparty, liquidity, valuation, volatility, market, fluctuations in the value of and the rental income received in respect of the underlying property, and over the counter transaction risks). 

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in single countries or industry sectors (in particular small/mid cap companies) which may reduce risk diversification. Some Sub-Funds are exposed to significant risks which include investment/general market, country and region, emerging market (such as Mainland China), creditworthiness/credit rating/downgrading, default, asset allocation, interest rate, volatility and liquidity, counterparty, sovereign debt, valuation, credit rating agency, company-specific, currency  (in particular RMB), RMB debt securities and Mainland China tax risks. 

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in convertible bonds, high-yield, non-investment grade investments and unrated securities that may subject to higher risks (include volatility, loss of principal and interest, creditworthiness and downgrading, default, interest rate, general market and liquidity risks) and therefore may adversely impact the net asset value of the Sub-Funds. Convertibles will be exposed prepayment risk, equity movement and greater volatility than straight bond investments.

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest a significant portion of the assets in interest-bearing securities issued or guaranteed by a non-investment grade sovereign issuer (e.g. Philippines) and is subject to higher risks of liquidity, credit, concentration and default of the sovereign issuer as well as greater volatility and higher risk profile that may result in significant losses to the investors. 

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in European countries. The economic and financial difficulties in Europe may get worse and adversely affect the Sub-Funds (such as increased volatility, liquidity and currency risks associated with investments in Europe).

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in the China A-Shares market, China B-Shares market and/or debt securities directly  via the Stock Connect or the China Interbank Bond Market or Bond Connect and or other foreign access regimes and/or other permitted means and/or indirectly through all eligible instruments the qualified foreign institutional investor program regime and thus is subject to the associated risks (including quota limitations, change in rule and regulations, repatriation of the Fund’s monies, trade restrictions, clearing and settlement, China market volatility and uncertainty, China market volatility and uncertainty, potential clearing and/or settlement difficulties and, change in economic, social and political policy in the PRC and taxation Mainland China tax risks).  Investing in RMB share classes is also exposed to RMB currency risks and adverse impact on the share classes due to currency depreciation.

    • Some Sub-Funds may adopt the following strategies, Sustainable and Responsible Investment Strategy, SDG-Aligned Strategy, Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Strategy (Relative), Green Bond Strategy, Multi Asset Sustainable Strategy, Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Strategy (Absolute Threshold), Environment, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Score Strategy, and Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Strategy (Absolute). The Sub-Funds may be exposed to sustainable investment risks relating to the strategies (such as foregoing opportunities to buy certain securities when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, selling securities when it might be disadvantageous to do so, and/or relying on information and data from third party ESG research data providers and internal analyses which may be subjective, incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable and/or reducing risk diversifications compared to broadly based funds) which may result in the Sub-Fund being more volatile and have adverse impact on the performance of the Sub-Fund and consequently adversely affect an investor’s investment in the Sub-Fund. Also, some Sub-Funds may be particularly focusing on the GHG efficiency of the investee companies rather than their financial performance which may have an adverse impact on the Fund’s performance.

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in share class with fixed distribution percentage (Class AMf). Investors should note that fixed distribution percentage is not guaranteed. The share class is not an alternative to fixed interest paying investment. The percentage of distributions paid by these share classes is unrelated to expected or past income or returns of these share classes or the Sub-Funds. Distribution will continue even the Sub-Fund has negative returns and may adversely impact the net asset value of the Sub-Fund.  Positive distribution yield does not imply positive return.

    • Investment involves risks that could result in loss of part or entire amount of investors’ investment.

    • In making investment decisions, investors should not rely solely on this [website/material].

    Note: Dividend payments may, at the sole discretion of the Investment Manager, be made out of the Sub-Fund’s capital or effectively out of the Sub-Fund’s capital which represents a return or withdrawal of part of the amount investors originally invested and/or capital gains attributable to the original investment. This may result in an immediate decrease in the NAV per share and the capital of the Sub-Fund available for investment in the future and capital growth may be reduced, in particular for hedged share classes for which the distribution amount and NAV of any hedged share classes (HSC) may be adversely affected by differences in the interests rates of the reference currency of the HSC and the base currency of the respective Sub-Fund. Dividend payments are applicable for Class A/AM/AMg/AMi/AMgi/AQ Dis (Annually/Monthly/Quarterly distribution) and for reference only but not guaranteed.  Positive distribution yield does not imply positive return. For details, please refer to the Sub-Fund’s distribution policy disclosed in the offering documents.


    Allianz Global Investors Asia Fund

    • Allianz Global Investors Asia Fund (the “Trust”) is an umbrella unit trust constituted under the laws of Hong Kong pursuant to the Trust Deed. Allianz Thematic Income and Allianz Selection Income and Growth and Allianz Yield Plus Fund are the sub-funds of the Trust (each a “Sub-Fund”) investing in fixed income securities, equities and derivative instrument, each with a different investment objective and/or risk profile.

    • Some Sub-Funds are exposed to significant risks which include investment/general market, company-specific, emerging market, creditworthiness/credit rating/downgrading, default, volatility and liquidity, valuation, sovereign debt, thematic concentration, thematic-based investment strategy, counterparty, interest rate changes, country and region, asset allocation risks and currency (such as exchange controls, in particular RMB), and the adverse impact on RMB share classes due to currency depreciation.  

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in other underlying collective schemes and exchange traded funds. Investing in exchange traded funds may expose to additional risks such as passive investment, tracking error, underlying index, trading and termination. While investing in other underlying collective schemes (“CIS”) may subject to the risks associated to such CIS. 

    • Some Sub-Funds may invest in high-yield (non-investment grade and unrated) investments and/or convertible bonds which may subject to higher risks, such as volatility, creditworthiness, default, interest rate changes, general market and liquidity risks and therefore may  adversely impact the net asset value of the Fund. Convertibles may also expose to risks such as prepayment, equity movement, and greater volatility than straight bond investments.

    • All Sub-Funds may invest in financial derivative instruments (“FDI”) which may expose to higher leverage, counterparty, liquidity, valuation, volatility, market and over the counter transaction risks.  The use of derivatives may result in losses to the Sub-Funds which are greater than the amount originally invested. A Sub-Fund’s net derivative exposure may be up to 50% of its NAV.

    • These investments may involve risks that could result in loss of part or entire amount of investors’ investment.

    • In making investment decisions, investors should not rely solely on this website.

    Note: Dividend payments may, at the sole discretion of the Investment Manager, be made out of the Sub-Fund’s income and/or capital which in the latter case represents a return or withdrawal of part of the amount investors originally invested and/or capital gains attributable to the original investment. This may result in an immediate decrease in the NAV per distribution unit and the capital of the Sub-Fund available for investment in the future and capital growth may be reduced, in particular for hedged share classes for which the distribution amount and NAV of any hedged share classes (HSC) may be adversely affected by differences in the interests rates of the reference currency of the HSC and the base currency of the Sub-Fund. Dividend payments are applicable for Class A/AM/AMg/AMi/AMgi Dis (Annually/Monthly distribution) and for reference only but not guaranteed.  Positive distribution yield does not imply positive return. For details, please refer to the Sub-Fund’s distribution policy disclosed in the offering documents.

     

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