The fund seeks capital appreciation in the long term by investing in companies outside the United States.
The fund prefers a multi-manager investing approach to manage its assets. Under this approach, the portfolio of the fund is divided into segments managed by individual managers
The investment process starts with a list of companies in the benchmark index and the research team utilizes quantitative techniques and fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities.
Next, the process focuses on stocks of issuers in Europe and the Pacific Basin.
The investment team believes a country will be considered part of Europe if it is part of the MSCI European indexes, and part of the Pacific Basin if any of its borders touches the Pacific Ocean.
Also, in determining the domicile of an issuer, the team considers the domicile determination of a leading provider of global indexes, such as Morgan Stanley Capital International.
Other factors that the team may take into account are where the company’s securities are listed and where the company is legally organized, maintains principal corporate offices, conducts its principal operations and/or generates revenues.
Then the research team prefers companies demonstrating the potential for growth, namely the potential for above-average capital appreciation.
Then the manager constructs a portfolio of stocks from a list of companies favored by the research team and allocates capital based on its conviction level.
The manager favors attractively valued companies in developed and emerging markets that are positioned to benefit from innovation, global economic growth, increasing consumer demand or a turnaround in business conditions.