T. Rowe Price Global Focused Growth Equity Fund

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Overview

Manager's Outlook

Since the beginning of 2022, the global investment landscape has absorbed slowing growth, geopolitical risks, tightening monetary policy, elevated inflation, and a significant growth-to-value rotation. During the second quarter, the market accelerated the probability of a market recession and punished any company that missed expectations or was perceived to be at risk from weakening demand or higher input costs. Valuations across broad parts of the market corrected to pre-COVID levels or lower, wiping away all pandemic-level exuberance. The global market began adopting the view of increased importance of capital returns and cash flow-based valuations.

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The Global Focused Growth Equity Strategy began the year positioned for COVID-19 distortions to fade, notably, for supply chain disruptions to correct and U.S. Federal Reserve stimulus to end. This was seen in our active positioning in travel and capital market-related stocks. The conflict in Ukraine catalyzed higher commodity prices and emboldened the Fed to become even more aggressive on the path of hiking interest rates. These actions have eliminated speculative behavior and shifted the market toward pricing in a recession, as seen in current reduced valuations. Because of these actions, the investment landscape has broadened in terms of opportunity set. In our view, valuations are not expensive today, but the volatility of yields will likely continue driving uncertainty of the perceived bottom.

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Today, the portfolio is positioned in many idiosyncratic names across a variety of sectors that have already priced in a shallow recession in cyclical, defensive, and secular growth companies. The portfolio is taking advantage of the opportunities where we believe we have insights about improving future economic returns that we don't think are reflected in valuations. We appreciate that the market is now evaluating the risk to future earnings; however, we estimate that inflation is peaking, which could be the key for returns of our existing stock decisions. The last six months have humbled investors but has also created a real opportunity for active managers.

Strategy

Fund Summary

We look for companies that we believe have the potential for improving economic returns in the future and that we can buy at an attractive price. In a world of secular change, this means understanding the forces enhancing or erasing durable competitive advantage to correctly identify the winners and losers ahead of the market. The promotion of environmental and/or social characteristics is achieved through the fund's commitment to maintain at least 10% of the value of its portfolio invested in Sustainable Investments, as defined by the SFDR. Additionally, we apply a proprietary responsible screen (exclusion list). The manager is not constrained by the fund’s benchmark, which is used for performance comparison purposes only.

OUR VIEWS ON GLOBAL EQUITIES

Performance - Net of Fees

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

30-Apr-2020 - David J. Eiswert, Portfolio Manager,

Global equities rebounded following several months of losses as slowing coronavirus infection rates in a number of global hot spots and massive monetary and fiscal stimulus efforts helped support investor optimism. Within the portfolio, our holdings in the information technology (IT) sector, coupled with an overweight position, contributed the most to relative returns. Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify rose amid strong e-commerce data, with robust order growth in the company’s end markets as consumers shifted spending habits online in the wake of coronavirus social distancing measures and brick and mortar retailer shutdowns. We believe Shopify represents a compelling structural growth opportunity driven by its best-in-class cloud-based software platform that allows merchants to sell their products across many “storefronts.” Conversely, our lack of exposure to the energy sector hurt relative performance. We previously had a subdued outlook on the sector given the global oversupply of oil driven by the disruptive impact from U.S. shale production. The coronavirus-led global economic slowdown further exacerbates the near- and intermediate-term issues facing the sector, in our view. As a result, we ended the quarter with no exposure to the energy sector.

31-Mar-2020 - David J. Eiswert, Portfolio Manager,

We have high conviction in the IT sector. Despite the near-term uncertainty and volatility created by the COVID-19 outbreak, the powerful long-term trends that we believe will drive value creation in the technology sector remain in play. Meanwhile, aftereffects from the virus outbreak could also result in lasting behavioural changes, with more people working remotely and payment methods skewing more digitally. As a result, software and electronic payments are areas of focus within our IT sector exposure. We remain positioned to benefit from increasing AI adoption as well as the growing technology consumption in emerging markets, particularly in Asia. We also have a sizable exposure to semiconductor stocks.

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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