The fund seeks capital appreciation by investing in companies across any size outside the United States.
The sub-adviser’s 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.
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.
Next, the manager focuses on corporations located in Europe with no limits on the geographic asset distribution of the fund’s investments within Europe.
Other exposure may include, without limitation, investments in companies located in European Union Member States that are likely to join the Eurozone in the foreseeable future and in companies based elsewhere that exercise the predominant par t of their economic activity in Eurozone countries.