Global Growth Equity Fund

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Overview

Manager's Outlook

The investment landscape?marked by extreme inflation, tightening financial conditions, slowing growth, decelerating corporate earnings, and continued geopolitical risks?remains challenging. We are operating in an environment of rapidly changing and powerful economic factors by focusing on our "core basics" of following a truly idiosyncratic, sector-balanced approach that leverages our extensive research platform to invest in what we believe are well-run, durable growth compounders?stocks that should provide a solid return outcome in a lower-growth environment with meaningfully reset valuations.

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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has led to extreme commodity price inflation that has rippled through the global economy, and COVID-related headwinds have continued to disrupt supply chains. Outside of China, the rest of the world has reopened, and the higher inflation that was once thought to be transitory is likely to remain higher for longer than we had thought. With central banks now laser focused on reigning in inflation, we are operating in a higher interest rate world with rising risks of a recession.

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Despite near-term uncertainty, we believe the market environment is still positive for equities and growth in the medium and longer term. While recession has become a broadly consensus view, it would likely be one of the most telegraphed recessions in history, and we would expect it to be short lived. Even though we are clearly in a new rate environment with the Federal Reserve going at a steeper and quicker pace than we anticipated, real rates remain negative and should remain very low for the medium term, which would be supportive for global growth equities. We believe the sharp downturn in equities has also removed much of the fundamental excess valuation in many stocks, which should provide for more compelling opportunities.

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We are cognizant of building the portfolio for tomorrow, rather than owning what has worked in the recent past. Despite the challenges of 2022, we have high conviction in our current positions with a strong enduring bias toward companies in highly attractive industries where dynamics such as low penetration and long runways will lead to high and sustained levels of growth. Extending our return horizon and thinking beyond the short-term market narrative have allowed us to be contrarian in the past and have contributed to our longer-term outperformance.

Strategy

Fund Summary

We seek to invest in high-quality, durable businesses with sustainable growth prospects. We look for companies in attractive industries with improving fundamentals and potential for above-average and sustainable rates of earnings growth, when we believe valuations offer us high conviction, upside potential. The manager is not constrained by the fund's benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.

Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

31-Oct-2024 - Scott Berg, Portfolio Manager,

Global equities sold off in October. Markets were pressured by strong economic data in the US diminishing expectations for more interest rate cuts, signs of deceleration in artificial intelligence demand, China stimulus scepticism, and geopolitical uncertainty. A strengthening US dollar versus other major currencies also weighed on returns for US-based investors. Within the portfolio, stock selection in financials, coupled with an overweight position, contributed the most to relative returns. A large Latin American digital banking platform rebounded from September following the stock’s sell-off in the previous month. We have high conviction in the company and think its highly disruptive digital banking platform can continue to gain share and even scale internationally, which provides it with a long growth runway. Conversely, stock selection in health care hurt relative results. Shares of a leading global bio-analysis company specialising in food, environmental, pharmaceutical products, and clinical diagnostics testing sold off after the company reported mixed earnings results, with worse-than-expected core organic growth, although management raised margin guidance while earnings and free cash flow guidance remained unchanged. We continue to think the company has a one-of-a-kind platform and should deliver strong, durable growth over the long term.

31-Dec-2023 - Scott Berg, Portfolio Manager,

We have an overweight position in financials. We currently have exposure to what we believe are high-quality US banks but are meaningfully underweight European and Japanese banks that broadly have more negative credit exposure. We have more exposure to insurance companies than we have typically had in the past, as an improving pricing environment and better yields on portfolio investments have created a positive near- and medium-term setup. We continue to own several emerging market financials we believe are undervalued and underappreciated and have exposure to high-quality alternative asset managers and leading capital markets companies.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

The Funds are sub-funds of the T. Rowe Price Funds SICAV, a Luxembourg investment company with variable capital which is registered with Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and which qualifies as an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities (“UCITS”). Full details of the objectives, investment policies and risks are located in the prospectus which is available with the key investor information documents and/or key information document (KID) in English and in an official language of the jurisdictions in which the Funds are registered for public sale, together with the articles of incorporation and the annual and semi-annual reports (together “Fund Documents”). Any decision to invest should be made on the basis of the Fund Documents which are available free of charge from the local representative, local information/paying agent or from authorised distributors. They can also be found along with a summary of investor rights in English at www.troweprice.com. The Management Company reserves the right to terminate marketing arrangements.

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Risks

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