The investment seeks capital growth. The fund will usually purchase equity securities of foreign companies. Its equity securities will generally consist of common stock and depositary receipts. It may also invest a portion of its assets in forward currency exchange contracts, non-leveraged futures and option contracts, notes, bonds and other debt securities of companies, and obligations of foreign governments and their agencies, or other similar securities. The fund may also invest up to 20% of its net assets in the securities of emerging market (non-developed) countries.
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Asset managers:
Richard Nield (Started: Mar 22, 2013)
Mark Jason (Started: Aug 31, 2011)
Rajesh Gandhi (Started: Feb 15, 2008)
Daniel Ling (Started: Oct 1, 2009)
Clas Olsson (Started: Dec 31, 2005)
Matthew Dennis (Started: Dec 31, 2005)
Shuxin (Steve) Cao (Started: Dec 31, 2005)
Brent Bates (Started: Mar 22, 2013)
Jason Holzer (Started: Dec 31, 2005)
Alexander Tedder (Started: Jul 7, 2006)
Marcus Smith (Started: Dec 31, 2005)

Advisor Company:
Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co
Fund family reports on Morningstar »

	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years
Alpha*	-1.10	2.07	2.01	0.73
Beta*	0.87	0.95	0.93	0.94
Mean annual return	1.30	0.89	0.31	0.90
R-squared*	97.27	96.32	96.62	95.87
Standard deviation	14.31	18.90	22.05	17.47
Sharpe ratio	1.08	0.56	0.16	0.52
* Against standard index

Risk measurement details »

Security	Net Assets
Roche Holding AG (RHHVF)	2.39%
Unilever PLC (UNLYF)	2.09%
Toyota Motor Corp (7203)	2.08%
Sanofi (SAN)	1.89%
Nestle SA (NSRGF)	1.80%
Muenchener Rueckversicherungs AG (MUV2)	1.74%
Syngenta AG (SYENF)	1.66%
Orix Corporation (ORXCF)	1.55%
BHP Billiton Ltd (BHPLF)	1.47%
Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA (AHBIF)	1.45%

Holdings Performance »