securities or other mortgage-related securities
(“Private Mortgage-Backed Securities” and, together with Agency Mortgage-Backed
Securities, “Mortgage-Backed Securities”), asset-backed securities (including collateralized loan obligations), high yield non-investment grade fixed income securities (i.e., securities rated BB+, Ba1 or below by a
nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”) or, if unrated, determined by the Investment Adviser to be of comparable credit quality), high yield floating rate loans (“Bank Loans”) and
sovereign and corporate debt securities, and other instruments of issuers in emerging market countries (“emerging countries debt”). The Fund may also invest in fixed income securities issued by or on behalf of
states, territories, and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia) (“Municipal Securities”) and may purchase securities of issuers in default. The Fund may seek to obtain exposure
to these investments through investments in affiliated or unaffiliated investment companies including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), the Goldman Sachs High Yield Fund, Goldman Sachs Emerging
Markets Debt Fund and Goldman Sachs Local Emerging Markets Debt Fund.
The Fund may not invest, in the aggregate, more than 20% of its total
assets measured at the time of purchase (“Total Assets”) in (i) emerging
countries debt and (ii) non-investment grade fixed income securities.
The Fund may engage in forward foreign currency transactions for both hedging and non-hedging purposes. The Fund may invest in obligations of domestic and foreign issuers that
are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar (and may also be denominated in a currency other than that associated with the issuer’s domicile).
The Fund also intends to invest in other derivative instruments, including (but not limited to) interest rate futures contracts, options (including options on futures
contracts, swaps, bonds and indexes), swaps (including credit default, index, basis, total return, volatility and currency swaps) and other forward contracts. The Fund may use derivatives, instead of buying and selling
debt directly, to manage duration, to gain exposure to certain securities or indexes, or to take short positions with respect to individual securities or indexes. The Fund may invest in derivatives that
are not denominated in U.S. dollars.
The Fund may gain exposure
to Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities through several methods, including by utilizing to-be-announced (“TBA”) agreements in Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities or through the use of reverse
repurchase agreements. TBA agreements for Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities are standardized contracts for future delivery of fixed-rate mortgage pass-through securities in which the exact mortgage pools to be delivered
are not specified until shortly before settlement. A reverse repurchase agreement enables the Fund to gain exposure to specified pools of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities by purchasing them on a forward
settling basis and using the proceeds of the reverse repurchase agreement to settle the
trade.
Except as described above, the Fund invests in fixed
income securities rated at least BBB- or Baa3 at the time of purchase. The Fund will deem a
security to have the highest credit rating assigned to it from an NRSRO at the time of purchase, if more than one NRSRO rates the security. Unrated securities may be purchased by the Fund if they are determined by the Investment Adviser
to be of comparable credit quality.
The Fund’s target duration range under normal interest rate conditions is expected to approximate
that of the Goldman Sachs Short Duration Bond Fund Composite Index plus or minus two years, and during the past five years ended June 30, 2026, the duration of this index ranged between 1.72 and 1.96 years.
“Duration” is a measure of a debt security’s price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The longer the duration of the Fund (or an individual debt security), the more sensitive
its market price to changes in interest rates. For example, if market interest rates increase by 1%, the market price of a debt security with a positive duration of 3 years
will generally decrease by approximately 3%.
Conversely, a 1% decline in market interest rates will generally result in an increase of approximately 3%
of that security’s market price.
The Investment Adviser measures the Fund’s performance against the Goldman Sachs Short Duration Bond
Fund Composite Index (Total Return, USD, Unhedged), which is comprised of the Bloomberg U.S.
1-3 Year Corporate Bond Index (50%) and the Bloomberg U.S. 1-3 Year Government Bond Index
(50%).
Fixed Income Investment Philosophy:
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Combines diversified sources of return by employing multiple strategies
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Takes a global perspective to seek relative value opportunities
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Employs focused specialist teams to seek to identify short-term mis-pricings and incorporate long-term views
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Emphasizes a risk-aware approach as we view risk management as both an offensive and defensive tool
No one factor or consideration is determinative in the fundamental
investment process.
Principal Risks of the Fund |
Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or
guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any government agency. The Fund should not be relied upon as a complete investment program. There can be no assurance that the Fund
will achieve its investment objective. Investments in the Fund involve substantial risks which prospective investors should consider carefully before investing. The Fund's principal risks are presented
below in alphabetical order, and not in the order of importance or potential exposure.
Call/Prepayment Risk. An issuer could exercise its right to pay principal on an obligation held by the Fund (such as a
Mortgage-Backed Security) earlier than expected. This may happen when there is a decline in
interest rates, when credit spreads change, or when an issuer’s credit quality improves. Under these circumstances, the Fund may be unable to recoup all of its initial investment and will also suffer from having to reinvest in lower-yielding securities.
Collateralized Loan Obligations Risk. The Fund may invest in collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) and other similarly
structured investments. A CLO is an asset-backed security whose underlying collateral is a
pool of loans, which may include, among others, domestic and foreign floating rate and fixed rate senior secured loans, senior unsecured loans, and subordinate corporate loans, including loans that may be rated below investment grade
or equivalent unrated loans. In addition to the normal risks associated with loan- and credit-related securities discussed elsewhere in the Prospectus (e.g., loan-related investments risk, interest rate risk
and default risk), investments in CLOs carry additional risks including, but not limited to, the risk that: (i) distributions from the collateral may not be adequate to make interest or other payments; (ii) the
quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the Fund may invest in tranches of CLOs that are