Macquarie Professional Series

Walter Scott Emerging Markets Fund

Macquarie Professional Series

Enabling local access to global specialists

The Walter Scott Emerging Markets Fund is proudly brought to you by Macquarie Professional Series. We have been scanning the world for 20 years, looking for global equity and liquid alternatives managers that have proven themselves, through multiple market fluctuations, again and again. Very few make the cut, but that’s the point.

We’ve sorted through the noise and dealt with the complexity, to bring you our selection of some of the world’s best. We want to share our passion for investing and support you all the way.

Overview

Quality emerging markets exposure

Seeking high quality emerging market companies with strong growth characteristics

Long-term investment approach

Backed by an experienced team of researchers

Focus on defensive investing

With the potential for strong returns over a full market cycle

Philosophy

Walter Scott scours global markets for what they believe are the world's best emerging market companies, capable of generating sustained wealth over the long term. As fundamental, bottom-up stock pickers, Walter Scott focuses on companies that are profitable, have a sound ability to generate cash, have strong balance sheets, and robust governance structures. Their approach is focused on the need to generate real returns over the long term.

Key features

Potential for long-term wealth creation

Walter Scott seeks to create wealth through the long-term ownership of quality companies.
Walter Scott has a long-term track record investing in emerging markets.

Access potential growth of emerging markets

Driven by growth in population and household wealth, emerging countries have the potential to achieve high levels of economic growth.
These opportunities may also be associated with higher risks.
Walter Scott carefully manages emerging market risk through quality exposure.
Walter Scott seeks to invest in companies that tend to shine out during tougher market conditions.

Benchmark-unaware portfolio, with a long-term focus

Walter Scott takes an unconstrained approach to investing.
This allows the investment team freedom to build a diversified portfolio of stocks spanning a range of geographies and sectors.
Wealth is created through the long-term ownership of companies rather than short-term trading.

Leading in-house research

Original research is at the heart of Walter Scott’s investment process.
Combined with detailed financial analysis, the investment team, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, travel extensively to meet directly with company management, and gain on-the-ground insight to form a first-hand view of a company’s potential for long-term success.

Access to the knowledge and investment expertise of Walter Scott

Walter Scott has applied their brand of conservative growth investing consistently for 40 years.
The investment experience of all members of the research team is called on for every investment decision.

Process

Walter Scott builds and manages its portfolios from the bottom up.

The Fund is actively managed using a benchmark-unaware, fundamental, bottom-up and research-driven approach to build a portfolio of strong growth companies capable of generating wealth over the long term.

The investment approach combines detailed financial analysis with business and management analysis.
There are seven particular areas of investigation to assess the long-term potential of a company, as shown. This includes fundamental issues such as how the company can maintain its competitive advantage, control its destiny and exploit growth opportunities, along with its financial health, competency of management, sustainability of the business franchise and valuation.
The investment experience of the whole research team is called on for every investment decision. A new idea must achieve unanimous support prior to inclusion, while a sell decision requires only one well-researched dissenting argument.

Management team

Collective decision making is integral to Walter Scott’s investment approach. Every portfolio is managed by bringing together the skill and judgement of the whole research team.

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Risks

All investments carry risk. Different investments carry different levels of risk, depending on the investment strategy and the underlying investments. Generally, the higher the potential return of an investment, the greater the risk (including the potential for loss and portfolio value variability over the short term). Some of the significant risks of the Strategy are included below.

Investment risk: The Strategy has exposure to share markets. The risk of an investment in the Strategy is higher than an investment in a typical bank account or fixed income investment. Amounts distributed to unitholders may fluctuate, as may the Strategy’s unit price, by material amounts over short periods.

Market risk: The investments that the Strategy has exposure to are likely to have a broad correlation with share markets in general. Share markets can be volatile and have the potential to fall by large amounts over short periods of time. Poor performance or losses in domestic and/or global share markets are likely to negatively impact the overall performance of the Strategy.

International and emerging market risk: The Strategy has exposure to a range of international economies, including emerging economies. Global and country specific macroeconomic factors may impact the investments that the Strategy has exposure to. Governments may intervene in markets, industries, and companies; may alter tax and legal regimes; and may act to prevent or limit the repatriation of foreign capital. Emerging markets may experience lower liquidity (including as a result of securities or bond markets being closed for extended periods), potential for political unrest leading to recession or war, greater potential for sanctions to be imposed on the country or its citizens, companies or institutions, increased likelihood of sovereign intervention (including default and currency intervention), currency volatility, and increased legal risk.

Important information: The Fund is designed for consumers who are seeking capital growth and income distribution, are intending to use the Fund as a minor allocation or satellite allocation within a portfolio, have a minimum investment timeframe of seven years, have a high or very high risk/return profile for that portion of their investment portfolio, and require the ability to have access to capital within one week of request.

The Target Market Determination (TMD), available at macquarie.com/mam/TMD, includes a description of the class of consumers for whom the Fund is likely to be consistent with their objectives, financial situation and needs.

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