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Provident Fund

Provident fund ("the fund") is a fund set up voluntarily between the employer and employees. Assets of the fund consist of money contributed by both employer and employees in the rate of 2-15% of basic salary depending on provident fund’s articles which registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the registrar and supervisor.

Provident fund not only provides a tool for employees to save with the employer’s assistance, assets of the fund are further managed by a professional fund management called "Asset Management Company (AMC)." The benefits derived from management are distributed to members of the fund proportionately.

Member’s savings could grow over time on account of the monthly contributions from both employer and employee, plus assets derived from investments or interests incurred from assets of the fund. However, interests and dividends from investments will not be paid to fund members before membership termination since the purpose of setting up the fund is to accumulate the savings into a large amount with the intention to assure a quality life after retirement. Moreover, members are not entitled to withdraw part of the savings before termination of membership since it is not consistent with the objective of saving for retirement.

The employer can set the vesting scheme of accumulated employer contribution and its earning according to years of employment or years of provident fund membership. Therefore, setting up of a provident fund can be regarded as a kind of benefit so as to motivate employees to work with the employer.

Upon termination of membership, members will receive all of their savings and its incurred benefits, as well as a certain amount of employer's contribution and its incurred benefits according to the fund’s articles. In case of resignation, member can choose to temporarily keep their money within the former fund before transferring it to the provident fund of his/her new employer or the Retirement Mutual Fund (RMF). This will allow members to maintain their retirement savings in the system.

Provident Fund Investment

To set up provident fund, AMC will require information from the employer and the employees with regards to experience with investment asset, investment obligations, average age of employees to see investment time horizon, risk tolerance levels, and desired levels of returns (Customer’s Profile). AMC will analyze Customer’s Profiles to propose appropriate investment plan for the employees (Suitability). Fund Committee together with AMC will design suitable investment plans for employees.

Provident fund investment must be under the regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), fund registrar and supervisor. Nowadays employee’s choice is provided for employees. In order to know their investment objectives and acceptable risk level, the employees need to fill in “Member Risk Profile” to evaluate themselves and select the suitable investment plan. Otherwise, they can join “Target Date” Fund which a series fund over time and portfolio becomes increasingly conservative as it nears the target retirement date.

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Provident Fund Benefits

Employer

Tax benefit – Employer Contribution can be deducted as company’s expense
A kind of benefit so as to motivate employees to work with the employer in the longer term
Lower turnover rate
Lower budget for new employees’ training
Employer can control the company’s budget efficiently
Employees will have enough savings when they reach retirement age and have a good quality of life after retirement
Create good company’s image

Employee

Tax benefit – Employee Contribution can be tax deductible and tax exempted and the received lump sum is tax exempted if the redemption is made when employee reaches the age of 55 years with fund membership over 5 years
Get extra salary in the form of company contribution
Have long term saving for postretirement
Family receives lump sum in case employee passes away
Wealth creation by professional and long experienced fund managers

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Provident Fund Type under Principal’s Management

Single Fund - established by the sole employer or many employers which are affiliated companies. There are two types of Single Fund:

One investment policy either mixed assets or pure fixed income policy provided to all employees
Master Fund-Sub Fund Platform called “Master Single Fund” with multiple investment policies for Employee’s choice

Pooled Fund - established by AMC for small companies to share all the fixed costs (economy of scale). There are three types of Pooled Fund

One investment policy either mixed assets or pure fixed income policy
Master Fund-Sub Fund Platform called “Master Pooled Fund” with multiple investment policies for Employee’s choice in the form of “Target Risk”
Master Fund-Sub Fund Platform called “Master Pooled Fund” in the form of “Target Date.” Target Date funds have become very popular among those who are saving for retirement. They are based on the simple premise that the younger the investor, the longer the time horizon he or she has and the greater the risk he or she can take to potentially increase returns. A young investor's portfolio, for example, should contain mostly equities. In contrast, an older investor would hold a more conservative portfolio, with fewer equities and more fixed-income investments.

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Principal Asset Management Company Limited sets up an innovation fund named “The Registered Provident Fund of Principal Target Date Retirement” which is master-sub pooled fund with Target Date platform and Target Risk platform which are able to satisfy both provident fund member who believes in life cycle portfolio and who is very keen on investment and would like to select investment plan that matches his/her risk tolerance level.

Problems that provident fund member faces presently
•   Longevity of Thai population, then bigger lump sum for retirement is needed.
•   Most provident fund members invest in very conservative investment plan which the low rate of return is unable to create enough wealth for expenses after retirement.
•   Provident fund member who has little knowledge about investment is unable to select the suitable investment plan or switches the investment plan in the wrong timing.
•   Employer does not provide Employee’s choice for employees or the Employee’s choice is provided with limited investment plans.
•   The investment plans provided for employees are really not suitable for them.

Target Date

Target Date funds have become very popular among those who are saving for retirement. They are based on the simple premise that the younger the investor, the longer the time horizon he or she has and the greater the risk he or she can take to potentially increase returns. A young investor's portfolio, for example, should contain mostly equities. In contrast, an older investor would hold a more conservative portfolio, with fewer equities and more fixed-income investments.

Benefits for members
•   No uncertainty – to select the suitable investment plan
•   No confusion – to switch the investment plan
•   No complication

How to select the investment Plan
• Member selects the investment plan only once.
• Fund manager adjusts the portfolio risk by member’s age.

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This fund is designed to meet the needs of member that wants an investment option suited to the his/her particular investment time horizon and that tends to be more accepting of risk in the early years of his or her time horizon and becomes more risk-averse as he or she nears the retirement.
The investment objective of this fund is to seek a total return consisting of long-term growth of capital and current income consistent with the investment strategy of member who expects to retire in the year identified.

Target date Glide Path

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A glide path is a representation of how we manage a series over time and how it becomes increasingly conservative as it nears the target date.

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Besides Target Date, we have Target Risk that member can select conservative, balance or growth plan that matches their risk appetite. Member is able to set his/her own asset allocation by using Do-it-yourself plan and mix between these sub funds.
There are 8 sub funds that can be separated into 4 groups of asset as follows:

Fixed Income

1. Short-term Fixed Income (TR_iDAILY)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in deposits, government debt securities, financial sector debt instruments, and private debt instruments both onshore and offshore which the maturity term ≤ 397 days since the date of investment.

2. Fixed Income (TR_iFIXED)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in or hold debt instruments, financial instruments and/or deposits offered for sale both onshore and offshore issued by government sector, state enterprises, financial institutions and/or private sectors that have received credit ratings from institutions of credit rating that have been accepted by SEC which has the Issue Rating or Issuer Rating in the investment grade.

Thai Equity

1. Thai Equity (TR_TEQ)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in equity instruments with good fundamentals or related to a business or industry that is important to the national economy or is an industrial business that is supported or has the opportunity to receive good results from government policies or have growth potential in line with economic conditions

2. Thai Equity (TR_TDIF)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in or hold equity/stocks of listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand or the Market for Alternative Investment (mai) with good fundamentals and growth prospects or companies that have a good dividend payment history.

3. Thai Equity (TR_SET50)
This sub fund has a policy to generate returns of the Fund in accordance with the SET50 Index movement by investing in or holding stocks registered in the Stock Exchange which are parts of the SET50 Index.

Global Equity

1. Global Equity (TR_GEQ)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in or holding in investment units of foreign equity funds and/or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that has a policy to invest in foreign equity. The fund can be invested in various regions, country or sectors according to the discretion of fund manager.

2. Global Equity (TR_GOPP)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in or hold the investment units of only one foreign fund, Morgan Stanley Investment Funds Global Opportunity Fund (master fund).

Alternative investment

1. Property Fund (TR_iPROP)
This sub fund has a policy to invest in in securities or financial instruments in the property sector for both onshore and offshore. The fund will mainly invest in unit trust of Property Funds that listed on the Stock Exchange or unit trust or Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (Property Fund), Exchange Traded Fund that focus on investment in instruments of Property funds (REITs ETF), unit of Infrastructure Fund which is in the Property Sector (Infrastructure Fund), private equity units that focus on investing in real estate or securities or instruments related to the real estate industry (Private Equity Fund).

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How to join The Registered Provident Fund of Principal Target Date Retirement

• Fund Committee together with Principal consider the suitable plans for members by setting up Target Date or Target Risk or both platforms
•   Principal arranges Educational session for members how to select the suitable investment plan
•   Employer’s payroll/HR pays the monthly contribution with only one cheque or one pay-in for all the plans members select.
•   Specific the selected investment plans in the text file/excel file only first time
•   Principal allocated the contribution to each sub fund with our high efficiency registrar system
•   Principal provides online service via web site and mobile application. Members can do the retirement plan via our Plan WISE Retire WELL program

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Online Service for Member
Transaction
•   Switch investment policy
•   Investment plan of lump sum and monthly contribution can be designed differently
•   Change the contribution rate

Fund Information
• Main fund’s articles
• Kor Chor 1.2 (Investment Details)

Company Information
•   Fund’s articles in the part of each employer
•   YTD return by Sub Fund and Menu
•   Fund Committee name list

Risk Profile Questionnaire
• Member Risk Profile to evaluate risk acceptance level

Enquiry & Report
•   Contribution payment history report
•   Investment plan switching report
•   Individual statement as at end of June and December

Retirement Planning Tool
• Plan WISE Retire WELL

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Frequently asked question ?

ABOUT PROVIDENT FUND

Q1. What is Provident Fund (PVD)?
A. Provident Fund is an investment fund that is jointly established by employers and employees under the Provident Fund Act. The fund resources consist of are partial amounts of monthly salary that the employees contributed into the fund, called " Employee’s Contribution ", and the other amounts that the employers contributed into the fund, called " Employer’s Contribution ". The purpose of the fund is a long-term savings to support employees upon their retirement and is considered as a part of employment welfare that employers provide to their employees.
Provident Funds are managed by Asset Management Company (AMC) that are approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The funds are invested as determined by the fund committee for fund members in order to seek returns under acceptable risk levels or according to investment policies.

Q2. What do Employee’s and Employer’s Contributions in the Provident Fund mean?
A. Employee’s Contribution is a portion of salary that employees consent the employers to deduct it from their salary and delivery it to the fund monthly at a rate of not less than 2 percent but not more than 15 percent of the employees’ salary, subject to the conditional rate specified in the fund regulations of each employer. Employer’s Contribution is a fund that the employers pay to the fund monthly for their employees who are members of the fund at a rate of not less than 2 percent but not more than 15 percent of the employees’ salary, subject to the conditional rate specified in the fund regulations of each employer.

Q3. How will employees who are the fund’s members benefit from investing in the Provident Fund?
A. Employees will receive benefits from the Provident Fund as below:
1.    The Employee’s Contributions to the provident fund is tax-deductible.
2.    If the employees withdraw from the fund according to the withdrawing rules (have already reached the age of 55and have been members of the fund for at least 5 years), the total amounts received from the provident fund are exempt from income tax.
3.    To receive the Employer’s Contributions (according to the conditions specified in the employers’ fund regulations)
4.    To receive benefits of investments (according to the investment plan chosen by the member).
5.    It is a long-term savings for retirement.
6.    In the event of a member's death, the amount funded will be passed on to the beneficiary specified by the member in the beneficiary appointment letter given to the employer (members can contact their employer's HR department to change the beneficiary's name)

Q4. How should employees or fund members choose an investment policy?
A. The employees or the fund members should choose an appropriated investment policy according to their risk assessments that need to be completed to measure their investment risk level for which investment policy is appropriate to invest in.

Q5. Can employees or fund members switch investment plans or choose different investment policies for current and new funds?
A. The employees or the fund members can switch the investment plans or choose different investment policies for the current fund amount and the new fund amount, subject to the fund regulations of the employers. The fund members can contact the HR department of the employers for the fund regulations or view the fund regulations in the Principal TH application.

Q6. What is the Registered Provident Fund of Principal Target Date Retirement or “Target Date Fund?”
A. The Target Date Fund is a provident fund that is designed to help create an appropriate investment portfolio for fund members of all ages. Principal Asset Management Company will create a portfolio for the fund members based on the year in which the fund members will retire, starting with selecting appropriated assets, setting the investment proportion in each asset class, and allocating the assets' ratio to be appropriated with the fund member's increasing age until retirement age.

Q7. What are the advantages of the Registered Provident Fund of Principal Target Date Retirement or “Target Date Fund?”
A. The fund members will not have to worry about choosing the right investment plans or switching investment plans during the volatile period or when the fund members get older. Principal Asset Management Company will act as a portfolio manager for the fund members from starting working age until retirement age, for the fund members’ portfolios to have the opportunity to grow appropriately.

CONTRIBUTIONS INTO PROVIDENT FUND

Q8. How much can employees contribute to the fund?
A. According to the Provident Fund Act, requires employers to pay contributions and employers to pay contributions to the fund at the rate specified in the fund regulations, which shall not be less than 2 percent and not more than 15 percent of the employees’ salary.

The employees can change their contribution rate according to the conditions specified in the fund regulations of each employer.

MANAGEMENT OF PROVIDENT FUND WHEN TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP

Q9. What does termination of membership in the Provident Fund mean?
A. The termination of membership is subjected to as follows:
-    The fund members resign from their employers for any reason.
-    The fund members resign from the fund without resigning from their employers (unless the fund regulations of the employers’ section specify that the fund members cannot resign from the fund without resigning from their employers).
-    The fund members’ death or the court orders the fund members to be a missing person.
-    The fund members have become an incompetent person or a quasi-incompetent person by a court order.
-    The fund members transfer to other fund members.
-    The employers dissolve their business
-    Or withdraw from the fund.

Q10. When the membership of the fund members ends during the month, do the employers still have to remit their contributions to the fund?
A. The employers must remit the full amount of the contribution into the fund, calculated from the monthly salary that the fund members are entitled to receive from the employers.

Q11. If the fund members resign from their job and move to new employers, what should they do with their provident fund?
A. The fund members can contact the HR department of their current employers for informing to their intention of maintaining the provident fund amount with the fund and with the current asset management company . The fund members can contact the asset management company to transfer the provident fund amount after they have been approved to join the provident fund of the new employers.

Q12. If the fund members resign from the employer without having a new employer, how can they manage their provident fund?
A. When the fund members resign from previous employers without having a new employer, they can notify the HR department of the previous employers on the managing their provident fund in 3 ways. as follows:
1. Request to retain the provident amount with the fund for the period specified by the regulations with a fee charged at the amount of 500 baht per year, OR
2. Request to transfer the provident fund amount to Retirement Mutual Fund (RMF for PVD). In this case, the fund members have to open a mutual fund account with the asset management company that they wish to transfer, or transfer to RMF for PVD under Principal Asset Management by contacting Principal Asset Management Call Center at 026869500, press 1, to make an advanced appointment, then walk in to Principal Asset Management Office and proceed with opening a mutual fund account with client service officers, OR
3. Request to withdraw the provident fund amount, this will be considered as termination of the membership where withholding tax may be deducted from the provident fund balance that the fund member will receive. The criteria of the tax deduction are subjected to the length of the employment and the assessable income (employee’s contributions/benefits of the employee’s contributions/employer’s contributions/benefits of the employer’s contribution) that the fund members are entitled to receive from the fund. The fund members can inquire with the HR department of the employer’s company or can calculate the initial withholding tax via this link: https://easyinvest.principal.th/click/Oth01_CalculateTax.aspx (The assessable income that will be used for the withholding tax calculation, the determined value will be the value on the date the asset management company calculates the net asset value (NAV per unit) for the termination transaction, which it will occur after the asset management company receives the notification from the employer of the fund members).

Q13. If the fund members want to resign from their fund without resigning from the employers, what needs to be done and when will the fund be received?
A. The fund members can contact the HR department of their employers to inform them of their intention to resign from the fund without resigning from the employers (only in the case that the fund regulations of the employers’ section specify that the fund members can resign from the fund without resigning from their employers), then the employers prepare the documents and send them to Principal Asset Management. After Principal Asset Management receives the documents, it will take 30 business days, from the date of completion of the documents and information, to pay the fund amount to the fund members.

Q14. When the membership ends, how will the fund members receive their provident fund?
A. The fund members are entitled to receive the full amount (100%) of the employee’s contributions and benefits of the employee’s contributions. In terms of the employer’s contributions and benefits of employer’s contributions, the fund members will receive the amount according to the conditions specified in the fund regulations. The fund members should contact the HR department of the employers’ company for acknowledgment of the fund regulations or view the fund regulations in the Principal TH application.

Q15. Can the fund members who resign from the fund choose how they want to receive the provident fund?
A. The method of fund payment to the fund members is in accordance with the fund regulations, and it may be specified as direct transfer to the fund member's bank account or pay by cheque and the fund members contact to collect the cheque with the HR department of the employers.

Q16. Is the provident fund amount that members will receive after resigning from the employers and terminating membership subject to withholding tax? And how is the tax calculated?
A. If the fund members resign from the employers at the age of 55 and have been fund members of the fund for 5 years, the fund members will receive the full amount of the provident fund that the fund members are entitled to receive without withholding tax.
If the above conditions are not met, the provident fund amount will be used to calculate the income tax. The criteria of the tax deduction is subject to the length of employment and the assessable income (employee’s contributions/ benefits of the employee’s contributions/employer’s contributions/benefits of the employer’s contribution) that the fund members are entitled to receive from the fund. The fund members can inquire with the HR department of the employer’s company or can calculate the initial withholding tax via this link: https://easyinvest.principal.th/click/Oth01_CalculateTax.aspx (The assessable income that will be used for the withholding tax calculation, the determined value will be the value on the date the asset management company calculates the net asset value (NAV per unit) for the termination transaction, which will occur after the asset management company receives the notification from the employer of the fund members).

Q17. The fund members who have maintained the amount with the fund for 1 year, what should they do if they want to retain the amount for a longer period?
A. The registrar of Principal Asset Management will contact the fund members via email to inform them about the fees and payment methods for the maintenance fee. The fund members can also contact Principal Asset Management Call Center via email callcenter@principal.com or call 026869500 press 1 to inquire about the due date and payment methods for the maintenance fee.

Q18. Do members have the right to request for provident fund payments in installments?
A. The fund members can request installment payments from the provident fund if the fund members resign from their employers at the age of 55 years old and have been a fund member for 5 years.

Q19. How do the fund members request an installment payment?
A. The fund members can submit their request through their employers or the fund committee on the date of the membership termination or notify their request directly through Principal Asset Management, in the event that the fund members wish to receive the installment payment after the transaction date of the membership termination and have requested to maintain the amount with the fund (the fund members must be 55 years old and have been a fund member for 5 years).

Q20. How many installments can members request for payment and when will they receive it?
A. The fund members can request for installment payments for a maximum of 10 years from the date of membership termination, which the members can choose to receive installment payments monthly, every 3 months , 4 months, 6 months, and annually. The payments will be made to the fund members on the 25th of each installment. If the payment date falls on holidays, the payment will be made on the previous business day.

USING PRINCIPAL TH APPLICATION

Q21. What is the Principal TH application?
A. Principal TH is an application used via mobile phones which provident fund members can download and register to use for viewing the movement of their investment portfolios, including switching investment plans, downloading documents regarding the fund, and including the management of member account information such as changing telephone numbers and emails, etc. The fund member can download the application from OR code as below: or Click Download

Q22. How can the fund members view their portfolio or provident fund information in the Principal TH application?
A. After downloading the Principal TH application, click to register as a new user. During the registration process, you will need to use the dataset received from the HR department of the employer’s company after applying for membership in the provident fund. The dataset documents you received from Principal Asset Management are as follows:
1. Company code/Employer code
2. Employee code
3. Reference number
If members do not receive the above information, they can contact the HR department of the employer’s company for information, or
Principal Asset Management Call Center via email callcenter@principal.com or call 026869500, press 1

Q23. Can the fund members switch investment plans in the Principal TH application?
A. After the fund members have successfully registered as new users, they can access the investment plan management menu and select to switch investment plans as desired. However, it subjects to the employers' terms and conditions whether the fund members are allowed to switch investment plans online or not, including the number of times or time periods during which plans can be switched. The fund members can inquire with the employers' HR department or Principal Asset Management Call Center via email callcenter@principal.com or call 026869500, press 1.

PROVIDENT FUND DOCUMENTS

Q24. When will the fund members receive their provident fund balance statement?
A. The fund members can contact the HR department of their employers to request a fund balance statement. Principal Asset Management will send a provident fund balance statement (every 6 months) to the employers twice a year, showing the reported amount on December 31 and June 30 of each year, and delivered to the employer within 30 days from the reporting date or the fund members can also download the provident fund statement from Principal TH application.

Q25. How can the resigned fund members request a provident fund statement of resignation to submit their taxes to the Revenue Department?
A. The fund members can request a statement of resignation from the provident fund via Principal Asset Management Call Center at email callcenter@principal.com or call 026869500, press 1.
The fund members must specify the name of the previous employer, the year of resignation from the provident fund, and attach a copy of the ID card with a certified true copy. The Call Center will coordinate with the relevant departments for delivery of the document to the fund members.

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Disclaimer

1. The investors should study and understand the product (fund) feature, return condition and risk factors carefully before making an investment.

2. Investment in mutual funds is not a bank deposit and carries investment risk. The investors may receive the redemption amount higher or lower than the initial investment amount. Accordingly, the investors should invest when they consider that the investment in any mutual fund (“Fund”) is appropriate for their investment objectives and they can accept the risk which may incur from the investment in such Fund.

3. The persons interested in investment should study the prospectus carefully and understand “Investment Policy”, “categories of Investment Securities”, “Assets Allocation”, “Important risk factors” and “Warnings/Advices” before investing and keep such information for future reference. For those who wish to know additional details, can request a prospectus for project information from the Asset Management Company or its appointed Selling Agents.

4. The Asset Management Company may invest in securities or other assets for the Asset Management Company in the same way as the Asset Management Company has invested in securities or other assets for the Fund according to the regulations imposed by the Office of Securities and Exchange Commission (“Office of SEC”). The persons interested in investment who intend to know the information of investment for the Asset Management Company in details can ask for the information at the Asset Management Company or its appointed Selling Agents, or the Office of SEC.

5. In case of particular funds whose investment concentrated in either one industry or one country, the investors should study and understand the information in the prospectus before making an investment.

6. In case of unusual circumstance, the investors may not receive payment of the redeeming price of investment units within the due period of time or they may be unable to redeem the investment units as instructed, or they may receive money from the redemption of investment units later than the time stipulated in the prospectus.

7. In case where the Fund cannot maintain its liquid assets as prescribed by the Office of SEC, the investors may be unable to redeem the investment units according to their instruction.

8. The investors can check the information which may affect their investment decision, for instance, the entry into transaction with the Connected Person and the investment proportion stipulated in the objective of investment, etc. at the Office of SEC, or via the website of the Office of SEC at http://www.sec.or.th

9. The Fund is a juristic person separated from the Asset Management Company, accordingly, the Asset Management Company has no obligation to compensate the loss of the Fund. The operating performance of the Fund does not depend on the financial status or the operating performance of the Asset Management Company.

10. The investment in any funds whose name appearing in this Mobile Application is governed by the laws of Thailand including rules, regulations and by-laws stipulated in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (1992) (as Amended).

11. The information in this Mobile Application is just general information not being an advice or opinion and it does not substitute the advice or it is not intended as the offer or invitation for any person in buying or selling the product of various categories. Thus, no person can claim for any damages which incur with such person who used the information or who makes his/her decision based on the contents herein.

12. The approval of the Office of SEC for the establishment and management of the Fund’s project appearing in this Mobile Application does not mean that the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Office of SEC have certified the accuracy of the information in the prospectus and they do not guarantee the price or yield of the offered investment units.

13. The evaluation of the Fund’s operating performance in this Mobile Application applies the method of evaluation of the operating performance according to the standard prescribed by the Association of Investment Management Companies (“AIMC”) and the Fund’s operating performance in the past does not guarantee the Fund’s operating performance in the future.

14. The Asset Management Company has prepared all contents appearing in this Mobile Application for disseminating them to the Unitholders and the persons interested in investment and the Asset Management Company has realized the accuracy of such information. However, the Asset Management Company cannot guarantee the accuracy and the updatedness of all contents appearing in this Mobile Application.

15. The Asset Management Company reserves the right to correct, improve or change any information in this Mobile Application without any prior notice.

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17. The Asset Management Company and the executives including the Asset Management Company’s employees reserve the right not to be responsible for the damages in all cases which incur to the information and/or the communication system of the visitors or the investors due to their usage of this Mobile Application and/or any mobile application which is used in the Asset Management Company’s activity.

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19. The correction, modification, change of the report, content, information, document or any media in this Mobile Application, by any method, with intention or without prior permission of the Asset Management Company, and such correction, modification change result in the damage of property or reputation of the Asset Management Company or other person is the illegal action and offence in accordance with the Act governing the Committing of Offence relating to the Computer (“Act”) where the offender of such Act must be responsible for the civil damage and may also be responsible for the criminal punishment.

20. The Asset Management Company has compiled various websites in country and foreign countries which link with this Mobile Application for convenience in visiting such websites only. In case where such websites present any information, knowledge, concept or offer any service or offer any sale of various products in such websites to their visitors, especially some websites in foreign countries are not permitted to render any service or offer various products in Thailand at the moment, therefore, the visitors or the recipients of such service or buyers of product from such websites should study and check the information carefully before deciding to receive such service or to buy product or to take any action. In this connection, the Asset Management Company does not involve with any information or the offer of service or product. Moreover, the Asset Management Company does not certify the accuracy of information or the offer of service or product in such websites.

21. In case where the visitors who visit this Mobile Application and they leave this Mobile Application to other websites which link with this Mobile Application, the Asset Management Company would like to inform that such websites may be not governed by the Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (1992) and the Asset Management Company has not yet surveyed the service of information or product of such companies, accordingly, the Asset Management Company cannot guarantee the accuracy and completeness of such information and cannot be responsible for any incurred damage.

22. The investors should check to ensure that the sellers of investment units are the persons approved by the Office of SEC.

23.    Fee and charges for regular saving plan (RSP) transactions - Applying for all unitholders, with effect from 23rd March 2020.
Transaction charges:
      - Free of charge of RSP at THB 5,000 and above
      - THB 10 per transaction for RSP below THB 5,000 (Currently exempt)

24. Investors should study information about investment conditions and requirements of investing in the Super Saving Funds (SSF), Super Saving Fund Fund Extra (SSFX), or Super Saving Fund Extra Unit Class (SSFX Class) which are in accordance with the Ministerial Regulation No. 357 (B.E. 2020) issued under the Revenue Code on the exemption of tax on 10 March 2020, under guidance from the Revenue Department.. Investors should study and understand the information in the Fund Prospectus / Fund Factsheet and keep them for future reference. If you have question please ask the investor contact for clarification and to understand before buying the investment unit

Warning for Particular Fund

•   The investors cannot bring the investment units of the Retirement Mutual Fund (“RMF”) and the Long Term Equity Fund (“LTF”) to sell, distribute, transfer, pledge or to place as collateral.
•   For the investment in any RMF and LTF, the Unitholders (of such funds) must strictly comply with the conditions on investment and conditions imposed by the Revenue Department (which they can study such conditions from the investment handbook provided by the Asset Management Company), otherwise, the investors will not receive the tax benefit and/or the investors may be deducted or cannot request for the return of the withholding tax from the earned profit and they must return the tax’s benefit which they have received within the due period of time, and/or they may have to pay the surplus or penalty according to the Revenue Code. In addition, the investors must keep the documents of investment in the Fund including the evidence to prove that they have completely complied with the prescribed conditions for the benefit in confirming your tax’s benefit when they are inquired in the future. In addition, the investors should ask for the prospectus and handbook of investment and they should study such information until the investors understand such information or the investors may ask for additional details at the Asset Management Company or its Selling Agents.
•   In case where the Fund invests in foreign country and the Fund has not fully hedged the risk of the exchange rate, the investors may suffer the loss or may gain profit from the exchange rate or receive the money back less than the initial investment amount.
•   In case of guaranteed Fund, the investors who hold the investment units until the due period of time fixed in the prospectus will receive the investment back according to the conditions of guarantee. However, such guarantee does not include the guarantee of the guarantor’s ability to pay debt in the future.
•   In case of the “Fund focusing on the principal protection”, it is just a title of mutual fund with low risk whose policy of investment is to protect the principal of the Unitholders. Such Fund does not guarantee the investment or the yield from investment.

Privacy Policy
CIMB-Principal Asset Management Company Limited (“Company”) respects the customers’ rights. The Company has the privacy policy in order that you will be confident when providing your information to the Company. The customers have the right whether to provide the information to the Company or not.

Form of Information
The Company has collected the information in order that the Company will be able to render the financial service to the customers. The information comprises the name, address, date of birth including other information, for instance, occupation, your income per year. The Company receives such information from the application of account opening and your information for using the Company’s service on the internet.

The Company may collect your additional information when you use the Company’s service and the customers’ care center via the internet system or mobile phone in order to enable the Company to prepare better product and service which are appropriate for you.

Usage of Password
The customers have responsibility in keeping and taking care of their passwords. At all times and in all situations, you must be sure that your password is not disclosed to other person. Please notify the Company immediately when you have found that the password is used without your authorization or there is the violation of password’s security.

Usage and Disclosure
The Company may disclose your personal information or other information that related to you to other persons in various forms as prescribed in this part of the Privacy Policy.

The Company may use your personal information or other information with the reasons as follows:

Disclosure of information to CIMB-Principal and Principal Financial Group: The Company may disclose your personal information to CIMB-Principal and Principal Financial Group, for instance,
•   In case of introduction of financial product and service, for instance, the investment units of the fund in which you are interested;
•   In case of evaluation and running of application program which is in line with financial product and service, for instance, your investment units of the fund;
•   In case of management of financial product and service, for instance, your investment units of the fund presented by the Company;
•   In case where the disclosure of information will help Company in managing the content to be ready for usage and the connection with the product, service and the communication of the companies in the Group;
•   For risk management in order to detect and to prevent from wrongdoing and the fraud which may incur including any other violation of Company’s policy and agreements.

The Company may disclose your personal information to the Company’s external service provider: The Company may disclose your personal information to the external service provider who renders its service to the Company, as follows:
•   The external service provider who may render its service to you, for instance, the authentication service, etc.;
•   The external service provider, for instance, documents delivery service provider, IT system service provider, information filling service provider, publishing house, auditors including experts in various fields, provider who delivers the advertising for product and service and any other external company who supports in rendering our service to you;
•   The person appointed to perform the duty in place of you;
•   The experts in various fields appointed by the Company to help us in rendering our service of management of your investment;
•   In case where the Company must disclose your information as stipulated by laws, for instance, the disclosure of information to the Revenue Department, regulator, for instance, the Office of SEC;
•   Other financial institutes who are our partners in creating and offering the product or service: The Company may disclose your personal information to other financial institutes who are our partners in creating and offering the product, for instance, Synchrony Bank who relates to your bank account in case where you need to transfer money from your bank account or into your bank account, such financial institute may use such information only for the marketing and offering of product relating to the Company;
•   In case of preparation of information and statistics compiled by the third party including other business and general persons relating to the method, time and reason of the users of our website and service. This information does not identify yourself or does not provide the information relating to your usage of website or service. The Company will not disclose your personal information to the third party for the marketing objective without your consent.

The Company may disclose your personal information to the third party for its business objective or in the case stipulated or permitted by laws: The Company may disclose your personal information to other person for its business objective or in the case stipulated or permitted by laws including the cases as follows:

•   In the case where it is necessary to disclose such information in order to comply with the laws, legal procedure or rules and regulations for supporting the audit, compliance and duty on the business operation supervision;
•   In the case where it is necessary to disclose such information to the law enforcement agency, the state agency with the supervisory authority, state officials or other third person who involves with the summon, court’s order or other legal procedure or legal provisions under the laws or regulations or under the laws or regulations of other court’s jurisdiction which apply to the Asset Management Company or companies in the group of the Asset Management Company. Such information is disclosed in order to be in line with such laws or in case where the Company believes at its discretion that the disclosure of personal information is necessary or appropriate in order to prevent from the physical hazard or
financial loss or in order to report on suspicious transaction which may violate the laws;
•   In order to protect the important interest of person;
•   In order to protect the properties, services and legal rights of the Asset Management Company;
•   In case where there is the linkage with the delivery service and various relevant services for the buying transaction which is done by using the service;

• In order to assess and manage the risk including to prevent from the fraud against the Asset Management Company and the fraud relating to the websites or usage of service of the Asset Management Company;
• In order to disclose such information to agencies, banks, financial institutes for the credit reporting and for money collection.

With your consent: The Asset Management Company will disclose your personal information and other information with your consent. However, the recipient of such personal information must comply with the condition of disclosure of personal information according to the laws governing the privacy.

The alternative not to transact via the internet and Application
If the customers intend not to transact via the internet and Application, they may choose to use the phone or may write letter or contact the Asset Management Company in order to ask for the information relating to the investment in the Fund of the Asset Management Company. You may fill account opening form and may file the original documents at the office of the Asset Management Company and the Selling Agents of the Company.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files containing the information which you have visited our website. The Asset Management Company used Cookies in the Company’s Application in order to ensure that the information of transaction which you have done with us via the internet system and the Application is correct. Once you leave from our system of internet security and our Application, such cookies will be destroyed and such information will not be disseminated.

Access to your personal information
You may write an e-mail to contact us or you may call us at the phone number (662) 686-9595, during 08.30 hrs. to 17.00 hrs. every business day when you need to check your information. We may contact you for preparing additional information, for instance, money market information, fund market information, new fund and service. If you do not need such information, please also contact us.

Investors’ Risk Level Assessment Form (“Suitability Test”)
Since 1 July 2011 onwards, every investor must do the Suitability Test according to the Notification of the Capital Market Supervisory Board No.Thor.Tor./Nor./Khor. 47/2010, RE: Rule of Giving of Advice on the Investment and Providing of Service relating to the Investment Units Trading. If the investor refuses to do the Suitability Test or the investor does not provide complete information, CIMB-Principal Asset Management Company Limited (“Company”) cannot give advice on investment or cannot enter into the transaction of investment units buying or the transaction of investment units’ switching into the Fund for you because the Company must comply with the state agencies’ rules and regulations.

The objective of the Suitability Test is to cause the investors to acknowledge the level of risk which is appropriate for himself/herself in general and the Company will use information from such Suitability Test for giving advice on investment in the fund that appropriate for risk level of Unitholders. In this connection, the investors are requested to fill the actual information in all items of the Suitability Test in order to enable the Company to evaluate the level of risk which is appropriate for you.

The Unitholders can ask for the Suitability Test from the Company’s selling employees and can do such Suitability Test by filling it and return it to the Company, or may do the Suitability Test via the Company’s electronic service or via any other channel to be further notified by the Company. The Company will adhere to the information in the latest Suitability Test for assessment of Unitholders’ risk level.

Terms and Conditions:
In case of Subscription and/or Switching orders via the ordinary system of order receiving, the Company reserves the right not to take action according to Subscription Order/Switching Order for any fund according to the Form of Subscription Order/Switching Order (or the Subscription Order/Switching Order which is sent via system) for any fund. In such case, the Company does not have to notify Unitholders in advance, if the risk level of such fund is higher than the risk level of Unitholder which calculated from this Suitability Test or according to the latest Suitability Test of Unitholders which may be prepared in the future (except the case where the Unitholders confirm to take such risk from time to time, or except the case where there may be the change in the future as deemed appropriate by the Company subject to the rules of relevant state agencies which may be amended in the future).

In case of Subscription Order/Switching Order under the Automatic Investment Planning (AIP), the Company reserves the right not to take action according to the Buying Order/Switching Order for any fund as prescribed in the AIP where the Company does not have to give notice to the Unitholders for acknowledgement in advance, if the risk level of such fund is higher than the risk level of Unitholder which calculated from this Suitability Test or according to the latest Suitability Test of Unitholders which may be prepared in the future (except the case where the Unitholders confirm to take such risk and such exception must be further applicable to such investment plan until there is the adjustment of the investment plan, or there is the new processing of information of the level of Unitholders’ risk according to the Suitability Test, or except the case where there may be the change in the future as deemed appropriate by the Company subject to the regulations of relevant state agencies which may be amended in the future).

The Suitability Test is applicable only to the account of the Unitholders under the Company’s management. In this connection, the Unitholders must transact the transaction via the selling agents who are the Company’s selling employees or independent selling agents or via the Company’s electronic service only, but it excludes the transaction that is transacted via other Selling. In such case, the Unitholders must fill the form of the Suitability Test prepared by such Selling.

The Unitholders acknowledge and agree that they have the duty to review and update the information in the Suitability Test according to the time frame prescribed by the Office of SEC, the Company or relevant state agencies including any information which may be changed in the future.

After the due period of time for reviewing and updating the information in the Suitability Test as mentioned above, if the Company does not receive the information in the new Suitability Test from the Unitholders within the due period of time, the Unitholders agree and consent to the Company to deem that the Unitholders’ information appearing in the latest Suitability Test in the system is the most updated information of the Unitholders and such information must be applicable until the time that the Company has received the information in the new Suitability Test and the Company has already recorded such information in the system.

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