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Forward Eastern Europe Equities Fund

Share Class C

Investment Strategy
Updated as of:
September 30, 2008
 
 
 
An investment portfolio of 50-70 stocks
Use a bottom-up and value-oriented approach
Qualitative and quantitative screens help identify a core of 300 companies from a universe of 6,100 emerging markets companies
A team of specialists work to analyze investments and create the portfolio using a long-established, proprietary database
The Fund is managed using an active, disciplined investment style
 
Investment Process
The Fund utilizes a bottom-up stock selection process focusing on three main methods of analysis:
 
Industrials
Undervalued industrial capacity: buy companies valued below the median; no dependence on earnings projections
 
Financials
Screen for the world’s cheapest banking franchises with the strongest capital ratios1 and highest potential for profitability
 
Intellectual Property & Services
A balanced approach identifies the best opportunities through an objective combination of current valuations and implied future growth
 
 
1Capital ratios is a measure of a bank's capital strength used by U.S. regulatory agencies.
  Class: C Shares
Change to: Investor
Class: Institutional
Class: A Shares
   
PDF Fund Fact Sheet
Overview
Category: Foreign Growth
Ticker Symbol: FEECX
CUSIP: 349913624
Benchmark: MSCI Emerging Markets Europe 10/40 Index
Inception: December 31, 2007
Load Fee: No Load
Dealer Concession: 1.00%1,2
Trail: 1.00%3
Gross Expense Ratio: 3.75%
Net Expense Ratio: 2.40%*
Minimum Investment
Initial: $4,000
Initial–eDelivery: $2,000
Initial–Automatic Investment Plan: $500
*The Fund’s investment advisor has contractually agreed to waive a portion of its fees and reimburse expenses until January 31, 2009, in amounts necessary to limit the Fund’s operating expenses (exclusive of brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, and extraordinary expenses) for Class C shares to an annual rate (as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets) of 2.40%.

1Maximum concession allowed. See prospectus for more details.

2Maximum deferred sales charge for shares held less than two years is 1.00%.

3Begins after the 24th month.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Europe 10/40 Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index designed to measure equity performance in the emerging markets of Europe and adjusted for the limitations imposed by the UCITS III (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) directive on funds incorporated in member states of the European Union. The UCITS III directive constrains the weight of any single group entity, as defined therein, at 10% of a fund’s total assets and the sum of the weights of all group entities representing more than 5% of the fund at 40% of the fund's total assets. Investors cannot invest directly in the index.

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