Pursuing the Growth Gap
Seeks companies whose forward-earnings growth potential has yet to be identified by the market
Best Ideas
Combines core long-term holdings with opportunistic shorter-term holdings based on the portfolio manager's best ideas
Sub-advised by Schroders
With 200+ years of experience, Schroders actively invests across public and private markets around the globe
Objective: Seeks long-term capital appreciation through investment in securities markets outside the United States.
The portfolio managers are supported by the full resources of Schroders.
Performance
Performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted.
SI = Since Inception.
Fund Inception: 12/19/1985
Share Class Inception: 10/24/16.
Performance prior to 10/24/16 for Class R5-shares reflects the performance, fees, and expenses of the Investor Class of the predecessor fund Schroder International Alpha Fund. If Class R5 fees and expenses were reflected, performance would have differed. SI performance is calculated from 12/19/85.
Characteristics
# of Holdings | 52 |
---|---|
Turnover | 32% |
Active Share | 84% |
FUND | MSCI ACWI ex USA Index | |
---|---|---|
Price/Earnings | 16.6x | 13.6x |
Price/Book | 2.9x | 1.9x |
Asset Weighted Market Cap (billions) | $159.8 | $114.1 |
Median Market Cap (billions) | $71.2 | $10.4 |
Return on Equity | 14.6% | 14.0% |
Continental Europe | 41 |
United Kingdom | 22 |
Emerging Markets | 15 |
Japan | 14 |
North America | 9 |
SAP SE | 5.27 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 4.82 |
RELX PLC | 2.92 |
Unilever PLC | 2.92 |
Roche Holding AG | 2.82 |
Shell PLC | 2.80 |
ASML Holding NV | 2.74 |
Cie Financiere Richemont SA | 2.63 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 2.62 |
Siemens AG | 2.52 |
Total Portfolio % | 32.06 |
Less than $2 billion | 0 | |
$2 billion - $5 billion | 0 | |
$5 billion - $10 billion | 3 | |
Greater than $10 billion | 97 | |
Not Classified | 0 |
Alpha (5 Year)
|
3.27 |
Down Capture (5 Year)
|
99.58 |
Information Ratio (5 Year)
|
0.73 |
Sharpe Ratio (5 Year)
|
0.41 |
Up Capture (5 Year)
|
112.09 |
FUND |
BENCHMARK | UNDERWEIGHT / OVERWEIGHT | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/31/24 | 1/31/25 | 1/31/25 | -6 0 6 | ||||
Industrials | 20 | 19 | 14 | ||||
Consumer Staples | 13 | 12 | 7 | ||||
Health Care | 13 | 13 | 9 | ||||
Information Technology | 17 | 17 | 14 | ||||
Communication Services | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||||
Consumer Discretionary | 8 | 9 | 11 | ||||
Energy | 3 | 3 | 5 | ||||
Utilities | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Real Estate | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Financials | 18 | 19 | 24 | ||||
Materials | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Insights
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