Updated March 27, 2024.
To provide superior long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities in emerging and frontier markets. The Emerging Markets Equity Fund is sub-advised by Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss of Dallas, Texas.
We utilize a value approach to stock selection, applying bottom-up, fundamental analysis to all investment decisions. Our investment goal is to protect client capital while generating superior investment growth, regardless of economic conditions. We seek to invest in companies with stable earnings, a long-term business model, and a capable management team we can trust that can navigate variable market conditions. As value investors, we tend to include companies in the portfolio when they are viewed as "out of favour" by the market and have declined in price. Companies can become undervalued when there is a lack of investor awareness, when an entire industry is out of favour with investors, or when a company experiences a short-term difficulty which, following careful analysis, we believe can be overcome. By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we are able to control downside risk in the portfolio while adding the potential for an attractive return.
Download Fund Summary Regulatory DocumentsRisk Level
Fund Code
LWF053
Asset Class
Emerging Markets Equity
Daily Price
Series
B
Quarter End Fund Size
$125.2 million
Series Inception Date
May 25, 2017
Fund Inception Date
May 19, 2017
MER
1.65%
RRSP/RRIF Eligible
Yes
Distribution Frequency
Quarterly
Number Of Holdings
63
Minimum Investment
Quarter End Yield
4.01%
Reference Index
For the period ended February 29, 2024 (after fees)
Annualized Compound Returns | |||||
Rates Of Return | 3 Month | 1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year |
Fund (Net of Fees) | -0.5% | 12.9% | 9.0% | 4.3% | n/a |
Benchmark | -0.5% | 9.7% | -1.1% | 1.5% | n/a |
Calendar Year | YTD | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
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Fund (Net of Fees) | 1.5% | 2.1% | 5.2% | 9.2% | -3.1% | - | - | - | - | - | |
Benchmark | -14.4% | -3.2% | 16.0% | 12.8% | -7.1% | - | - | - | - | - |
As at December 31, 2023
Non-Canadian denominated benchmarks are based on their published US$ quotation, which we convert from US$ to CA$ using the Bloomberg exchange rate.