The investment objective of the New Europe Sub-Fund is to provide long-term capital growth through exposure to companies in the Central & Eastern European region excluding Russia. The Sub-Fund will mainly invest in companies located in countries that have joined the European Union since 2004 and that may join in the future, but also in companies of other emerging and frontier markets of Central & Eastern Europe. The Sub-Fund will invest at least 50% of its net assets in securities of issuers domiciled in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. The Sub-Fund may also invest in securities of issuers not domiciled in the aforementioned countries but which exercise a significant part of their economic activity there.
