Nomura Small Cap Value Fund is a traditional/relative value strategy that stays in the correct style box. The team’s edge is its focus on cash flow and capital deployment. The team incorporates the concept of capital deployment in their analysis and invests in companies that have high quality management teams focused on returning cash to shareholders.
Experience
Stocks are selected by an experienced, value-focused team of sector specialists, averaging 15+ years of industry experience
Cash-flow focus
Focus on companies’ ability to effectively deploy and generate sustainable free-cash flow
Consistency since 1997
Disciplined investment process with a focus on risk mitigation that has been consistently applied for more than 25 years
Intensive, fundamental, bottom-up research process seeks to identify companies that offer superior expected returns based on the company’s ability to generate sustainable free cash flow.
Companies with higher free cash flow yields have the potential to outperform counterparts with lower free cash flow yields and may be better positioned to provide downside protection in times of economic stress.
Risk management is ingrained in each step of the process to preserve and grow investors’ capital.
Free cash flow is at the heart of the strategy’s traditional value investing process, driving investment ideas and research. Investments undergo thorough financial scrutiny with a cash flow focus to ensure portfolio alignment.
Portfolio construction is driven by bottom-up stock selection targeting the team’s best investment ideas. Barra factor monitoring and economic analysis seek to ensure prudent exposure management across market cycles.
Russell 2000® Value Index
Morningstar Small Value Category
Lipper Small-Cap Core Funds Average
The performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted.
Total returns may reflect waivers and/or expense reimbursements by the manager and/or distributor (as applicable) for some or all of the periods shown. Performance would have been lower without such waivers and reimbursements.
Returns for less than one year are not annualized.
Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs, or expenses. Indices are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index.
Performance at NAV assumes that no front-end sales charge applied or the investment was not redeemed. Performance at offer assumes that a front-end sales charge applied to the extent applicable.
Performance at NAV assumes that no contingent deferred sales charge applied or the investment was not redeemed. Performance at max offer price assumes that a contingent deferred sales charge applied to the extent applicable.
Class C shares redeemed within one year of purchase are subject to a 1.00% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC). Class C shares are eligible to automatically convert to Class A shares with a lower 12b-1 fee approximately eight years after you buy Class C shares.
Class A shares have a maximum up-front sales charge of 5.75%.
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Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.
Investments in small and/or mid-cap companies may be more volatile than those of larger companies.
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Narrowly focused investments may exhibit higher volatility than investments in multiple industry sectors.
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