Aegon Diversified Monthly Income reintroduced to the Academy of funds

We are pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Aegon Diversified Monthly Income fund back in to the Academy with an A rating. This fund was suspended in November 2018 following a number of departures from the group's fixed income team, who play an integral role and input heavily into this fund. Since this time we have followed developments closely, both from a fixed income team perspective, as well as from an overall strategy perspective. Aegon has steadily and carefully added resource back to its fixed income team and we now feel it is back to a similar level, prior to our suspension. Throughout this period, the fund's managers have continued to apply their investment process in a consistent manner and performance of the fund has continued to behave in line with our expectations. We therefore feel that we are now at a point where we are comfortable lifting the suspension and reinstating the fund's A rating.