OP-World Index is a passive index fund that invests assets according to the MSCI World Screened Index in large listed companies diversified on a global basis. This means that the fund’s investments are split between the countries and businesses of the benchmark index in the same proportion as in the index.
Since the fund aims to generate the same returns as the benchmark index, it only keeps a small portion in cash for the purposes of redemptions. In order to lower its trading needs arising from redemptions and subscriptions, the fund may to a
limited extent use derivative instruments in portfolio management.
Since the fund’s assets are invested in large-cap stocks, its investments can be highly concentrated on certain sectors, such as finance and industry.
As a rule, the composition of the index changes four times a year. Due to corporate events, individual stocks may also change outside the regular index revisions. The index composition is obtained from the index provider on a daily basis through an automated process and any changes in the index are implemented in the fund as far as possible in the same way as they are implemented in the index. The aim is to minimise the active risk in relation to the index with a reasonable trading volume.