Buying funds
in 3 steps

1. What is a securities account?

A securities account is a separate account on which all your securities are recorded. This account is used to settle all your purchases, sales or transfers and to record your securities holdings. You can imagine it as a digital safe, where your securitized assets - your securities - are stored.

All fund units, shares or other securities are booked in a custody account. The securities behind it are held and managed by the custodian bank. The custodian bank of Erste Asset Management is Erste Group Bank.

1. What is a securities account?

A securities account is a separate account on which all your securities are recorded. This account is used to settle all your purchases, sales or transfers and to record your securities holdings. You can imagine it as a digital safe, where your securitized assets - your securities - are stored.

All fund units, shares or other securities are booked in a custody account. The securities behind it are held and managed by the custodian bank. The custodian bank of Erste Asset Management is Erste Group Bank.

2. What amount do you want to save?

You want to look into your future and plan your financial goals. If you are in the savings phase, then our savings calculator is interesting for you. You can calculate how much capital you can achieve under the assumption of the average, according to your considerations, both with a single premium and through regular savings.

2. What amount do you want to save?

You want to look into your future and plan your financial goals. If you are in the savings phase, then our savings calculator is interesting for you. You can calculate how much capital you can achieve under the assumption of the average, according to your considerations, both with a single premium and through regular savings.

3. How do you buy funds?

3. How do you buy funds?

Before you select a fund - either via our fund search or with your advisor - two more important tips.

First tip: Choose a distributing or an accumulating tranche

Most funds have a distributing or an accumulating variant. The distributing tranche distributes part of the income generated (e.g. interest, dividends, etc.) by crediting your current account on a certain date each year. With the accumulation variant, this income is automatically reinvested in the relevant fund. You do not have to do anything else for this. The accumulation variant is intended more for investors who wish to invest money in the long term.


Second tip: Select the identification number of the fund (the "ISIN")

On the fund web factsheet of Erste Asset Management you will find the so-called ISIN (International Securities Identification Number) on the overview page. The ISIN is a twelve-digit combination of letters and numbers and represents the identification of securities. For example, securities issued by Austrian issuers start with the country code AT for Austria.


Buy funds online

If you have an online account with Erste Bank and Sparkasse, you can buy the respective fund directly by clicking the "Buy" button. The ISIN will automatically be provided for you via your input mask. You can then decide for yourself how much you would like to invest in the respective fund. Search the fund conveniently either in our full text search or in the fund search and click on the desired fund.

Would you like to take a look at our fund universe?

From major equity companies to biotechnology and emerging nations - here you will find all our funds:

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Disclaimer

This document is an advertisement. Please refer to the prospectus of the UCITS or to the Information for Investors pursuant to Art 21 AIFMG of the alternative investment fund and the Key Information Document before making any final investment decisions. All data is sourced from Erste Asset Management GmbH, unless indicated otherwise. Our languages of communication are German and English.

The prospectus for UCITS (including any amendments) is published in accordance with the provisions of the InvFG 2011 in the currently amended version. Information for Investors pursuant to Art 21 AIFMG is prepared for the alternative investment funds (AIF) administered by Erste Asset Management GmbH pursuant to the provisions of the AIFMG in connection with the InvFG 2011.

The fund prospectus, Information for Investors pursuant to Art 21 AIFMG, and the Key Information Document can be viewed in their latest versions at the  web site www.erste-am.com within the section mandatory publications  or obtained in their latest versions free of charge from the domicile of the management company and the domicile of the custodian bank. The exact date of the most recent publication of the fund prospectus, the languages in which the Key Information Document is available, and any additional locations where the documents can be obtained can be viewed on the web site www.erste-am.com. A summary of investor rights is available in German and English on the website www.erste-am.com/investor-rights as well as at the domicile of the management company.

The management company can decide to revoke the arrangements it has made for the distribution of unit certificates abroad, taking into account the regulatory requirements.

Detailed information on the risks potentially associated with the investment can be found in the fund prospectus or Information for investors pursuant to Art 21 AIFMG of the respective fund. If the fund currency is a currency other than the investor's home currency, changes in the corresponding exchange rate may have a positive or negative impact on the value of his investment and the amount of the costs incurred in the fund - converted into his home currency.

Our analyses and conclusions are general in nature and do not take into account the individual needs of our investors in terms of earnings, taxation, and risk appetite. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of the future performance of a fund.

The issue and redemption of unit certificates and the execution of payments to unit holders has been transferred to the Fund's custodian bank/depositary, Erste Group Bank AG, Am Belvedere 1, 1100 Vienna, Austria. Redemption requests can be submitted by investors to their custodian bank, which will forward them to the Custodian Bank/Depositary of the Fund for execution via the usual banking channels. All payments to investors are also processed via the usual banking clearing channel with the investor's custodian bank. In Germany, the issue and return prices of shares are published in electronic form on the web site www.erste-am.com (and also at www.fundinfo.com). Any other information for Shareholders is published in the Bundesanzeiger, Cologne. 

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