The Emerging Market Closed-End Fund (CEF) Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital growth via stock selection and active country allocation. We believe that closed-end funds offer an efficient way to invest in emerging markets. Our “alpha” is generated by capitalizing on discount changes and pricing anomalies that arise in closed-end funds. We specialize in identifying and capitalizing on discount movements and pricing anomalies to seek to provide above average, long-term outperformance versus the appropriate benchmark while maintaining a lower level of volatility than the benchmark.
Performance results reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. Returns are net of fees and are based on an investment management fee of 1.00% per annum. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Periods over one year are annualized.
*Composite Description: The Emerging (Free) Markets Country Fund Composite is an international equity composite focused on emerging countries, managed by City of London Investment Management. The strategy strives to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets Net Total Return Index (MSCI EM Index) with controlled risk, while providing Clients with monthly cash flow opportunities. It utilizes fundamental investment principles and quantitative approaches to provide broad emerging market equity exposure primarily through closed-end funds, with no one investment representing more than 15% of an individual portfolio within the composite upon its purchase and a goal of investing no more than approximately 25% in open-end funds. It uses both top-down and bottom-up valuation methodologies to value asset classes, countries and closed-end funds to determine under or over valued opportunities. The strategy has a strong value bias relative to other emerging market strategies. The composite is managed to the MSCI Emerging Markets Net Total Return Index.
**Index Description: The MSCI Emerging Markets Index (MSCI EM Index) contains large and mid-cap stocks across emerging markets countries; the index covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country. As of 31 December 2023 the MSCI EM Index consisted of 24 emerging markets. The S&P EM Frontier Super Comp BMI is shown for comparative purposes, and encompasses both the S&P Emerging Plus BMI and the S&P Frontier BMI. The S&P Emerging Plus BMI is a sub-set of the S&P Global BMI, containing stocks domiciled in emerging markets plus South Korea, with float-adjusted market values of USD 100 million or more. The S&P Frontier BMI contains stocks from small and illiquid markets that have not yet reached emerging market status. The S&P Emerging Plus BMI and the S&P Frontier BMI include 24 and 32 markets, respectively, for a total of 56 markets represented in the Benchmark Index as at 31 December 2023.
Neither MSCI nor any other party involved in or related to compiling, computing or creating the MSCI data makes any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to such data (or the results to be obtained by the use thereof), and all such parties hereby expressly disclaim all warranties of originality, accuracy, completeness, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to any of such data. Without limiting any of the foregoing, in no event shall MSCI, any of its affiliates or any third party involved in or related to compiling. computing or creating the data have any liability for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, consequential or any other damages (including lost profits) even if notified of the possibility of such damages. No further distribution or dissemination of the MSCI data is permitted without MSCI’s express written consent.
The portfolios’s investment objective is to achieve long-term capital growth. The portfolio will invest primarily in listed closed-end funds (“CEFs”) whose assets are invested in securities issued by companies domiciled or operating in, or that derive a majority of their income from, Emerging Markets. Emerging securities markets tend to be smaller, less liquid and more volatile than the major securities markets in the United States. There is less publicly available information about the issuers in emerging markets than is regularly published by issuers in the United States. Also, there is generally less government supervision and regulation of exchanges, brokers and issuers in emerging markets than there is in the United States. The legal infrastructure and accounting, auditing and reporting standards in certain emerging markets in which the Fund invests do not provide the same degree of investor protection or information to investors as would generally apply in more developed countries. The portfolio could be adversely affected by delays in or a refusal to grant any required government approval or by the lack of availability of foreign exchange. The portfolio will be subject to the risks of government control, political instability and social unrest with respect to its investments in emerging markets that could, in turn, have an adverse effect on the portfolio’s operations and performance.
Source: City of London Investment Management, MSCI
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