The investment seeks long-term capital appreciation. The fund invests primarily in a diverse group of companies related to emerging markets across market sectors, industry groups and countries. The fund may invest in companies of all market capitalizations. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies related to emerging market countries. The adviser generally intends to focus its investments in a subset of the emerging markets countries that comprise the MSCI Emerging Markets Value IMI Index.