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
Performance prior to 10/24/16 for Class I-shares reflects the performance, fees, and expenses of the Investor Class of the predecessor fund Schroder International Alpha Fund. If Class I fees and expenses were reflected, performance would have differed. SI performance is calculated from 12/19/85.
Characteristics
| # of Holdings | 51 |
|---|---|
| Turnover | 27% |
| Active Share | 83% |
| FUND | MSCI ACWI ex USA Index | |
|---|---|---|
| Price/Earnings | 18.0x | 14.9x |
| Price/Book | 3.2x | 2.2x |
| Asset Weighted Market Cap (billions) | $215.9 | $152.9 |
| Median Market Cap (billions) | $82.2 | $13.5 |
| Return on Equity | 16.1% | 14.4% |
| Continental Europe | 36 |
| United Kingdom | 20 |
| Japan | 18 |
| Emerging Markets | 17 |
| North America | 6 |
| Pacific ex Japan | 3 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | 6.09 |
| ASML Holding NV | 3.65 |
| SAP SE | 3.38 |
| Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 2.84 |
| Shell PLC | 2.68 |
| Roche Holding AG | 2.63 |
| Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG | 2.43 |
| Siemens AG | 2.42 |
| Cie Financiere Richemont SA | 2.39 |
| Unilever PLC | 2.38 |
| Total Portfolio % | 30.89 |
| Less than $2 billion | 0 | |
| $2 billion - $5 billion | 0 | |
| $5 billion - $10 billion | 2 | |
| Greater than $10 billion | 98 | |
| Not Classified | 0 | |
|
Alpha (5 Year)
|
0.03 |
|
Down Capture (5 Year)
|
107.96 |
|
Information Ratio (5 Year)
|
0.06 |
|
Sharpe Ratio (5 Year)
|
0.55 |
|
Up Capture (5 Year)
|
105.79 |
FUND |
BENCHMARK | UNDERWEIGHT / OVERWEIGHT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/30/25 | 10/31/25 | 10/31/25 | -7 0 7 | ||||
| Communication Services | 12 | 11 | 6 | ||||
| Information Technology | 18 | 19 | 15 | ||||
| Health Care | 10 | 11 | 7 | ||||
| Consumer Staples | 11 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Industrials | 17 | 16 | 15 | ||||
| Consumer Discretionary | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Energy | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Real Estate | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Utilities | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Financials | 20 | 19 | 24 | ||||
| Materials | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||
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