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Forward Eastern Europe Equities Fund

Institutional Class
Investment Strategy
Updated as of:
June 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: Institutional
Change to: Investor
   
PDF Fund Fact Sheet
Overview
Category: Foreign Growth
Ticker Symbol: FEEIX
CUSIP: 349913590
Benchmark: MSCI Emerging Markets Europe 10/40 Index
Inception: December 31, 2007
Net Assets: $2.9 Million
Load Fee: No Load
Gross Expense Ratio: 2.80%
Net Expense Ratio: 1.50%1
Minimum Investment
Initial: $100,000
Statistics
Price/Book:* 3.04
Forward P/E:* 9.71
EPS Growth Rate:* 27.88%
Long-Term Debt-to-Equity:* 9.25%
Weighted Avg. Market Capitalization:* $54.9 Billion
Average Capitalization:* $21.3 Billion
Number of Holdings: 52
Annualized Turnover: 74.43%
1The Fund’s investment advisor has contractually agreed to waive a portion of its fees and reimburse other expenses until April 30, 2009, in amounts necessary to limit the Fund’s operating expenses (exclusive of brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends and extraordinary expenses) for the Institutional Class shares to an annual rate (as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets) of 1.50%.

*Data refers to the Fund’s holdings and not to the Fund itself.

Price/Book Ratio and Price/Earnings Ratio represent equity securities within the Fund's portfolio, and are not intended to demonstrate Fund growth, income earned by the Fund, or distributions made by the Fund.

EPS Growth Rate represents current year consensus estimates weighed by distribution of the portfolio.
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