American Century
Global Small Cap Equity Fund
Pursuing consistent results through precise stock selection
American Century Global Small Cap Equity Fund
– a sub-fund of Nomura Funds Ireland
The American Century Global Small Cap Equity fund is designed to generate alpha using a time-tested growth philosophy and process that helps us to identify companies early in their growth cycle. Our goal is to construct a portfolio of companies with small market capitalizations that are located in both developed and emerging market countries.
Investment Approach
The fund seeks to invest in companies with small market capitalizations that are located in both developed and emerging markets, including the United States, and demonstrating accelerating growth.
- Centers on the belief that accelerating growth in earnings and revenues, rather than the absolute level of growth, is more highly correlated to stock price performance.
- Directs us to research different companies than other growth managers, as we do not require an absolute threshold of earnings or revenue growth.
- Allows us to take advantage of both the normal price appreciation that results from a company’s earnings growth and the market’s re-rating of a company’s price-to-earnings multiple.
Potential significant risks
Investing in small capitalisation companies and emerging markets involves unique risks that make it generally riskier than investing in larger capitalisation companies and developed markets. Factors affecting the performance of American Century Global Small Cap Equity Fund include greater price volatility, substantially less liquidity and significantly smaller market capitalization of securities markets, frontier emerging market risk, currency exchange rate fluctuations, greater social, economic and political uncertainty, regulatory and settlement risk and country allocation risk. The fund may invest in derivatives. Risks related to derivatives include market risk, management risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, operational risk, leverage risk and lack of availability. Additionally, the sub-fund may be subject to income, capital gains or withholding taxes.
For additional strategy information, please visit the American Century Investments® website. (Please note that the link will access a website for contents of which we take no responsibility and to which our data protection rules do not apply.)
To learn about our strategic relationship with American Century Investments, please visit our Strategic Partnership page.
| Investment Objective | The investment objective of the Sub-Fund is to achieve long-term capital growth through investment in an actively managed portfolio of Equity and Equity-Related Securities issued by small capitalisation companies in both developed and emerging countries. |
| Fund Size | USD 422.0 million (as at 30.09.2021) |
| Investment Company | Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. |
| Fund Managers |
Trevor Gurwich, Senior Portfolio Manager, American Century Investments |
| Launch Date | 02.07.2019 |
| Base Currency | USD |
| Universe Sector | Morningstar Universe: Global Small Cap Equity |
| Benchmark | MSCI ACWI Small Cap |
| Domicile | Ireland (Nomura Funds Ireland Plc) |
| Lead ISINs | I USD: IE00BJLN9256 For additional share class information, please contact us. |
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For a full list of available share class documents including KIIDs, please visit our fund documents page.
The lead share class fund literature is shown first in the above list. If any literature is not available in the above list for the share class you are invested in/interested in, please contact NAMupdates@nomura-asset.eu
Nomura Funds Ireland plc is an open-ended investment company with variable capital, incorporated in Ireland on 13th April, 2006 under the Act with registration number 418598. The Fund has been authorised by the Central Bank as an UCITS pursuant to the UCITS Regulations. The Fund is structured as an umbrella fund consisting of different Sub-Funds each comprising one or more Classes. The Fund has segregated liability between each of its Sub-Funds.
Full information on the presented fund, which is relevant for an investment decision can be found in the fund´s most recent sales prospectus, the Key Investor Information Documents (KIIDs) and annual and semi-annual reports. The KIIDs are available in the official language of the countries in which the fund is registered for distribution. This fund displays higher volatility due to its composition / the techniques used by the fund management, i.e. unit prices can fluctuate upwards or downwards within short periods of time. Performance in the past is no guarantee of future success. There can be no guarantee that the fund´s investment objective will actually be achieved.
A summary of investor rights in English and information on collective redress mechanisms are available at https://www.nomura-asset.co.uk/download/funds/how-to-invest/Summary_of_investor_rights.pdf . Nomura Asset Management U.K. Limited may at any time decide to terminate arrangements it may have made for the marketing of units of a fund in a member state other than its home member state.
