Strategies & Performance

Data as of 02/5/12

International Core derives its holdings from a selection of fundamentals-driven investment funds. We screen for their most popular ADRs, the US-exchange traded stocks of foreign companies.

Number of managers cloned: 189
Aggregate value of disclosed holdings: $475 billion

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Strategy
The AlphaClone International Core Strategy seeks to invest in the ten most popular (widely held) ADR securities amongst the twenty largest disclosed equity holdings from each investment fund in the group.

Investment Objective
Like all AlphaClone Core Strategies, this portfolio is intended for investors with moderate to aggressive capital appreciation investment objectives.

Stocks included:
American Depository Receipts (ADRs)

Number of holdings:
Up to 10
Methodology
  1. Each quarter, all American Depository Receipt (ADR) holdings that appear within each investment fund's twenty largest disclosed equity positions are ranked based on the number of funds in the group that hold each.
  2. Securities in the portfolio are then selected to match substantially the ten most widely held (popular) ADR holdings each quarter.
  3. All securities are then weighted based on their popularity.
Rebalance/Update frequency: Quarterly (approximately 50 days after the end of each calendar quarter).

Clone Performance

Growth of $10,000 02/5/07 - 02/3/12

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Performance Statistics
  Total
Return ?
Annualized Sharpe
Ratio
(4%) ?
Max Drawdown ?
Return ? Volatility ?
International (Long) 35.8% 6.3% 31.3% 0.1 -62.6%
Index 3.5% 0.7% 18.8% -0.2 -50.9%