Strategy
Investment Approach
- Invest across the entire frontier investment universe, including countries outside the MSCI Frontier Markets Index.
- Rigorous, risk-aware approach to identify quality growing companies trading at attractive valuations.
- Employ fundamental analysis with a focus on returns, balance sheet structure, management team and corporate governance.
- Disciplined approach to valuation. Verify relative valuation appeal versus peers and history.
- Consider macroeconomic and political factors to temper bottom-up enthusiasm.
Portfolio Construction
- Number of holdings: typically 50-80 stocks
- Individual position sizes typically range from 0.5%-10%
- Country Ranges:
- Index countries: Unconstrained
- Non-index countries: Constrained – 15% limit in any one country
- Sector Ranges: Unconstrained.
- Reserves are typically less than 5%
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- Currency risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Frontier markets risk
- Sector concentration risk
- Small and mid-cap risk
- Capital risk
- Equity risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk