| Investment Objective: |
The Portfolio seeks long-term capital appreciation. In managing the Portfolio, the Investment Manager utilizes a quantitatively driven, bottom up stock selection process. Utilizing a proprietary quantitative model, the Portfolio management team selects investments for the Portfolio from a broad investment universe of non-US equity securities, including common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities, depositary receipts (including American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs"), Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") and European Depositary Receipts ("EDRs"), as well as real estate investment trusts ("REITs")), warrants and rights. The active, quantitative approach utilized by the Portfolio management team involves initial screening, risk assessment and evaluation of each company relative to its global peers. The Portfolio will typically invest the majority of its assets in securities of non-US developed market companies, using an objective, systematic investment process that blends both risk and stock ranking assessments designed to capture attractive risk-to-return characteristics. In addition to a multidimensional assessment of risk, each company is evaluated daily according to four independent measures: valuation, growth, quality and sentiment. |
