The fund seeks capital appreciation by investing in companies across any size outside the United States.
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.
The strategy employs a growth-at-a-reasonable price style with a quality bias.
Next, the research team focuses on foreign securities, including emerging market securities.
The team favors companies exhibiting above average earnings growth potential, or that are estimated to trade below their fair values, or in a combination of growth and value companies.
The research process is driven by fundamental analysis of one stock at a time. In selecting securities for the portfolio, the research team prefers high quality, attractively valued companies.
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.
Also, the fund invests its assets across different industries, sectors, countries, and regions, but may invest a significant percentage of its net assets in issuers in a single industry, sector, country, or region.
The fund seeks to outperform the benchmark index over full market cycles.