The fund seeks to appreciate capital through investing in large-sized U.S. companies.

The investment process starts with large-sized companies and with the help of financial quantitative metrics narrows the focus on companies with strong balance sheets, high return of capital, history of above average earnings and cash flow growth. The research team then applies qualitative research and evaluates management track record in reinvesting free cash flow.

The concentrated fund holds between 20 and 35 stock and top 10 holdings account for 55% of total assets.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital through long term investing in large- and mid-size companies.

The investment process focuses on identifying companies with strong balance sheets, above average earnings and cash flow growth and long runway for sustainable revenue growth. The research team then applies analytical techniques and narrows the list for the evaluation of management track record in reinvesting cash, reducing debt and acquiring new businesses.

The fund holds between 25 and 40 stocks and about 45% of total assets are allocated to top 10 holdings.

The fund seeks capital appreciation by investing in small- and mid-size companies in the U.S.

The investment process targets companies between the market capitalizations of $500 million and $10 billion. Then the analyst team with the help of financial screens using quantitative metrics narrows the list of quality companies with solid balance sheets, above average earnings and free cash flow and high return on capital. The team then applies qualitative research in identifying management with a successful track record of business expansion and capital allocation.

The portfolio owns between 40 and 70 stocks and the top 10 holdings account for 30% of total assets.

The fund seeks to generate capital appreciation and current income through investing in companies across all market capitalization and in foreign markets.

The fund has to flexibility to invest as much as 20% of its assets in fixed-income securities and 35% in foreign companies. However, the fund generally holds U.S. based large- and mid-size companies.

The investment process is focused on companies with a track of record of dividend and then identifying companies with durable balance sheet and secular growth potential. Then the team looks for companies with growing cash flow and potential to increase dividend. The analyst team also reviews companies that may reinstate dividend or are likely to initiate in the near future.

Unlike other funds, the fund pays out dividend on a monthly basis.

The fund targets to appreciate capital and current income through investing in emerging markets of Europe, Asia and Latin America and frontier markets of Africa and Middle East.

The investment process is driven by top down economic, regulatory and political indicators. The research team then identifies countries that are expected to show improvement on these metrics. The team then considers investing in individual stocks, country based index linked securities, or sector focused equities.

The broadly diversified fund invests in 18 countries including China, Korea, Taiwan, Greece, India, Colombia, Egypt, Peru and Indonesia. Top 10 holdings account for 20% of total assets.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital in the long-term through investing in companies around the world including the U.S.

The investment process is driven by starting with a list of companies that are high in quality or improving in quality through financial screens. The research team then looks at discovering companies with high return on capital, sustainable competitive advantage and strong business franchise but stocks not reflecting full long term value in market price. With strict buy and sell discipline the fund dampens the performance volatility in down markets.

The fund holds between 25 and 40 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 35% of total assets. Geographically the fund is diversified and the U.S. accounts for 55% of assets and the U.K., France, Japan and the Netherlands account for additional 25%.

The fund seeks capital appreciation through investing large-size companies in the U.S.

The investment process is focused on identifying companies in secular growth trends and are trading at a reasonable price. Research team narrows a list of large-size companies with attractive growth profiles, financial strength and management with a successful track record of allocating capital. Then the team looks for companies with a long ramp of growth and finding stocks that are trading at a discount to their intrinsic values.

The fund holds between 25 and 40 stocks and allocates about 50% of total assets to top 10 holdings.

The fund seeks capital appreciation and current income through investing in U.S. based large-size companies.

The investment process starts with large-size companies with market capitalization of more than $10 billion and then narrows the list down based on historical earnings and cash flow growths, financial strength and return on capital. The research team then using qualitative measures evaluates management track record and earnings growth potential. The investment team allocates capital to each investment idea based on the expected earnings and return outlook.

The fund holds between 25 and 40 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 40% of total assets.

The fund seeks capital appreciation and current income by investing in small-size companies around the world including the U.S.

The investment process starts with a list of companies between $1 billion and $11 billion the market capitalizations. Then the research team looks for companies with established market niches, financial strength, earnings profile and growth prospects. The team then looks at the management track record in developing new products and reinvesting capital for growth. Companies with dividend track record are preferred where management aligns with shareholder interests.

The fund generally invests in developed regions of the world but has the flexibility to invest in emerging markets. The fund invests in between 150 and 180 stocks and top 10 positions account for less than 15% of total assets.

The fund seek to grow capital by primarily investing in companies in People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and may include Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

The fund is sub-advised by BMO Global Asset Management (Asia) Ltd.

The investment process focuses on finding companies with above average and long secular growth trends. The financially strong companies with established market presence are researched more to understand business sustainability and the nature of assets on balance sheets. Fund managers then allocates capital to each investment opportunity based on the return prospects.

The fund holds between 35 to 50 stocks and top 10 holdings account for about 35% of total assets. The fund has the flexibility to invest across all market capitalizations but generally invests in large- and mid-size companies.

The fund seeks to generate capital gains by primarily investing in companies in India and possibly including Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The fund is sub-advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.

The value investment style driven investment process looks for companies based in industry specific metrics, market leadership and strong financial position and businesses generating free cash flows. Research team then looks for companies that are trading at a discount to their long term value and ranks a list of investment candidates on the expected outlook and downside risk profile.

The fund holds between 30 and 50 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 55% of total assets.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital by investing in the U.S. based large-size companies.

The investment process focuses on identifying companies generating above average growth and then comparing with the market prices of stocks. The fund is prepared to pay a reasonable price for growth companies and hold these stocks for a long term.

The team with the help of fundamental research identifies a list of companies with established market presence, solid financial position and long growth runway are generally favored.

The fund holds between 55 and 75 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 50% of total assets.

The fund seeks to invest in small-size companies around the world outside the United States.

The investment process is focused on finding high or improving quality companies that are well placed to benefit from the structural growth. The fundamental research driven stock selection process relies on quantitative techniques in identifying companies with strong financials, high return in capital and attractive free cash flows.

The team then looks for a narrow list of companies that are likely to benefit from the durable structural growth in the long term.

The fund screens companies between market capitalization of as low as $50 million to $7 billion and selects between 120 and 150 stocks. Top 10 holdings account for about 15% of total assets.

The fund seeks total return including dividend income with a history that dates to 1931.

The disciplined investment process focuses on identifying companies with financial strength and long term growth prospects but with lagging stock prices. The research team then researches the long term growth for each potential investment and get a deeper understanding of the current problems or issues with the stock prices.

Companies with temporary issues that can be overcome and with long term growth prospects are favored for investment.

The fund holds between 60 and 80 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 33% of total assets.

The fund seeks to generate total return through investing in stocks, exchange traded notes and funds or real estate trusts around the world including the U.S.

The fund is sub-advised by Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC with a focus on global macro-analysis driven asset allocation.

The investment process is focused on identifying markets, sectors and companies that are likely to deliver positive returns based on the macro-economic conditions. The process also avoids or deemphasizes those investible units when economic conditions warrant. The process relies on several factors including yield curve, profit cycles, money flows and style and sector rotations.

The portfolio is monitored on a daily basis to ensure exposure to the desired market segments and balance with risk parameters. The fund is broadly diversified fund across geographic regions, growth and value investment styles and all market capitalizations.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital by investing in small-size companies in the U.S.

The investment process starts with a list of companies between market capitalizations of $50 million and $8 billion. Analyst team then looks for companies with strong balance sheets, high return on capital, and attractive earnings and free cash flow. The team then applies qualitative research in understanding competitive posture and long term outlook for the company.

Companies with high quality business, scalable business models, or with improving fundamentals are favored. Moreover, management with a successful track record of capital allocation and generating positive or inflecting earnings are also analyzed for selection.

The fund invests in between 75 and 90 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 25% of total assets.

The fund seeks to grow capital through investing in companies that are benefitting from the emerging growth trends.

The investment process is designed to identify companies with growth characteristics regardless of its size. The process looks for emerging trends and themes in various industries and sectors and identifies a list of companies with leadership positions. Then the research team evaluates financial strength and strategic position and the durability of the growth trend. The short list of candidates are included in the fund with the view to hold them for a longer term.

The fund holds between 75 and 100 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 20% of total assets.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital in the long term through investing in companies with market leadership and durable earnings profile.

The investment process looks for companies across all market capitalizations that are leading their industries, have earnings durability, financial strength, and are able to grow earnings regardless of the economic or market cycles. The narrow list of a select list companies are monitored for business performance and market valuation.

The fund holds between 50 and 70 stocks and top 10 holdings account for 30% of total assets.

The fund seeks to invest appreciate capital through investing in stocks around the world that pay dividend that qualify for long term capital gains federal taxation.

The fund primarily invests in foreign companies based in the developed regions of the world with a track record of dividend payment that are tax-favored. In addition, these companies are estimated to be undervalued compared to other opportunities. The manager also looks for other investments that have potential for income growth and capital appreciation.

The fund seeks to minimize income distribution and short-term capital gains that are taxed at ordinary income rate and realized long-term gains which are taxed as long-term capital gains.

The fund seeks to deliver positive after-tax return on capital through investing in mega-size companies in the U.S.

The fund looks to invest in large-size companies with market capitalization above $50 billion and are financially strong with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital. Then the research team narrows the focus on companies with long term-growth prospects and are trading at a reasonable price in the estimate of the fund managers.

The team with the help of deep fundamental research identifies companies that have long term prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation and have long growth ramp, industry structural advantages or portfolio of innovative products.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

These shares are not available for new investments. 

The fund seeks to appreciate capital through investing in the U.S. based companies while minimizing taxable distributions.

The fund looks to invest in financially strong companies with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital. The fund with the help of fundamental research identifies companies that have long term prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to deliver positive after-tax return on capital through investing in mega-size companies in the U.S.

The fund looks to invest in large-size companies with market capitalization above $50 billion and are financially strong with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital. Then the research team narrows the focus on companies with long term-growth prospects and are trading at a reasonable price in the estimate of the fund managers.

The team with the help of deep fundamental research identifies companies that have long term prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation and have long growth ramp, industry structural advantages or portfolio of innovative products.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to deliver positive after-tax return on capital through investing in U.S. companies across all market capitalizations.

The fund looks to invest in companies with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital. Then the research team narrows the focus on companies with long term-growth prospects and are trading at a reasonable price in the estimate of the fund managers.

The fund generally invests in mega-size or large-size companies with market capitalizations above $50 billion.

The team with the help of deep fundamental research identifies companies with long term growth prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation. These companies generally have long growth ramp, industry structural advantages or portfolio of innovative products and/or services with market leadership.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to deliver positive after-tax return on capital through investing in small-size companies in the U.S.

The fund considers small-size companies between $15 million and $8 billion but generally invests in companies between $500 million and $4 billion market capitalization range. The fund looks to invest in financially strong companies with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital.

The research team with the help of fundamental research identifies companies that have long term prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation and have long growth ramp.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to deliver positive after-tax return on capital through investing in large-size companies in the U.S.

The fund looks to invest in large-size companies with market capitalization above $20 billion and are financially strong with established market presence and generating attractive returns on capital. Then the research team narrows the focus on companies with long term-growth prospects and with lagging stock prices to their peers or to the market indexes.

The team with the help of deep fundamental research identifies companies that have long term prospects and management with track records of successful capital allocation and have long growth ramp, industry structural advantages or portfolio of innovative products.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund invests in companies around the world active in health science, production and distribution of medical products and drugs.

The investment process takes advantage of three contributing global trends; rising income, ageing population, and increasingly rapid innovation cycle. The fundamental research driven process looks for companies that are estimated to gain markets, developing new products that extends medical care to a new group of patients and/or have competitive and financial advantage in developing new products and services.

The globally diversified funds hold between 55 and 70 stocks and top 10 holdings account for about 40% of total assets. Geographically, the fund allocates about 66% investments in the U.S. and 27% in Europe and the rest in Asia.

The fund’s objective is to generate total return including current income through investing in companies that are deemed to be durable dividend payers.

Companies with a track record of dividend payment generally have a financial discipline, stable cash flow and management willingness to share with shareholders. However, maintaining or growing dividends require growing cash flows and stable management.

The investment process of the fund looks for companies that are estimated to be durable dividend payers. The process ranks companies of the dividend yield on the durability basis. Research team then identifies a list of companies in each sector of the economy and the investment team allocates equal capital to sectors and to the selected companies in the sector.

The fund seeks to generate capital appreciation through a broad diversified investment in emerging and frontier markets of 54 countries.

The rule-based systematic investment process seeks to invest in fast growing markets that are generally considered higher reward-risk profile countries. The process starts the review with regions and countries based on macro-economic, political and regulatory factors. Then the sector analysis is applied in identifying attractive sectors and market leaders for the countries with positive or improving fundamentals.

The fund seeks a broad diversification across countries, sectors and individual stocks. Emerging and frontier markets are grouped in four tiers. Based on the tier structure the fund allocates capital based on macro-economic factors and views. Tier 1 countries attract in total about 60% of capital, tier 2 about 15%, tier 3 about 10%, and tier 4% about 10%.

Tier 1 includes 10 countries including China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Brazil and Mexico. Tier 2 includes 5 countries including Chile, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines. Tier 3 countries include Vietnam, Peru, Qatar and Colombia. Tier 4 includes at least 17 countries including Czech Republic, Croatia, Kenya and Nigeria and Romania.  

The fund seeks to appreciate capital through diversified investments in developed international markets.

The rules-based systematic investment process is designed to identify regions, countries and individual securities based on macro-economic, political and regulatory factors. The research team highlights the countries with positive or improving fundamentals and then applies stock selection based country and sector selection.

The fund prefers to build a portfolio of countries, sectors and securities that have different composition then the benchmark MSCI Europe, Australia, Far East Index. With the help of deep fundamental research, the team identifies companies that are expected to grow at a faster rate than the market or their peers in the long term.

The fund seeks to generate after-tax capital appreciation through a broad diversified investment in emerging and frontier markets of 54 countries.

The rule-based systematic investment process seeks to invest in fast growing markets that are generally considered higher reward-risk profile countries. The process starts the review with regions and countries based on macro-economic, political and regulatory factors. Then the sector analysis is applied in identifying attractive sectors and market leaders for the countries with positive or improving fundamentals.

The fund seeks a broad diversification across countries, sectors and individual stocks. Emerging and frontier markets are grouped in four tiers. Based on the tier structure the fund allocates capital based on macro-economic factors and views. Tier 1 countries attract in total about 60% of capital, tier 2 about 15%, tier 3 about 10%, and tier 4% about 10%.

Tier 1 includes 10 countries including China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Brazil and Mexico. Tier 2 includes 5 countries including Chile, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines. Tier 3 countries include Vietnam, Peru, Qatar and Colombia. Tier 4 includes at least 17 countries including Czech Republic, Croatia, Kenya and Nigeria and Romania.  

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to deliver after-tax capital gains through diversified investments in developed international markets.

The rules-based systematic investment process is designed to identify regions, countries and individual securities based on macro-economic, political and regulatory factors. The research team highlights the countries with positive or improving fundamentals and then applies stock selection based country and sector selection.

The fund prefers to build a portfolio of countries, sectors and securities that have different composition then the benchmark MSCI Europe, Australia, Far East Index. With the help of deep fundamental research, the team identifies companies that are expected to grow at a faster rate than the market or their peers in the long term.

Buy and sell decisions are made by balancing investment considerations and tax implications and taking into account the tax liability for shareholders. The fund seeks to minimize distributions of investment income and net realized gains.

The fund seeks to appreciate capital using a market defensive strategy with the aim of approximating equity market index total returns but with less volatility than the market.

The rules-based systematic investing process works on the premise that the S&P 500 index options trade with positive volatility risk premium meaning that the volatility is generally prices higher than the actual volatility experienced on the securities underlying the option.

The fund is divided into two equal parts of equity securities and money market instruments or cash equivalent. The fund sells call options on the S&P 500 Index or its equivalent stock market index on substantially the full value of the fund’s securities. Similarly, the fund also sells put options on the S&P 500 Index or its equivalent on substantially the full value of the money market instruments holdings.

The fund generally writes call and put options of short tenor that are “out of money” at the time of initiation. With this stream of income, the fund expects to earn a steady stream of income and offset some of the future market gains but also dampen the downside losses.