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Focus Fund

Mutual Funds | Equities

Focus Fund

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Overview
High active market share portfolio that offers differentiated exposure by leveraging deep global research and long-term insights

Why Invest

Focused Global Equity Portfolio

A concentrated, global equity portfolio that seeks to own what we believe are exceptional and resilient businesses over the long-term

Expert Insights from Diverse Professionals

Differentiated insights from a team of former private equity investors, industry operators, and data scientists

Strong Data Science Integration

Investment process is enhanced by foundational integration of data science and alternative data, informing over 85% of stock selection decisions

Performance and Exposure

Top 10 Holdings

As of 06/30/2025

Portfolio holdings are expressed as a percentage and are calculated by taking the market value of each holding and dividing it by the Fund's NAV. Portfolio holdings and other characteristics are current as of the date shown and are subject to change.

Fund Facts

 

For Institutional Class, Class A, and Class C, total (net) expense represents, and for Investor Class, Trust Class, and Advisor Class shares gross expense represents, the total annual operating expenses that shareholders pay (after the effect of any fee waivers and/or expense reimbursement). The Fund’s investment manager has contractually undertaken to waive and/or reimburse certain fees and expenses of the Fund so that the total annual operating expenses are capped (excluding interest, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, taxes including any expenses relating to tax reclaims, dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any; consequently, total (net) expenses may exceed the contractual cap) through 8/31/2028 for Class A at 1.11%, Class C at 1.86%, Institutional Class at 0.75%, Trust Class at 1.50%, and for Advisor Class at 1.50% (each as a % of average net assets). Absent such arrangements, which cannot be changed without Board approval, the returns may have been lower. Information as of the most recent prospectuses dated December 18, 2024, as amended and supplemented.

All Risk Measures are calculated using the Fund’s Institutional Share Class.

Beta measures market-related risk. A beta less than 1 indicates the portfolio is less volatile than the index, while beta greater than 1 indicates more volatility.

Standard Deviation measures the volatility of the Fund’s and Benchmark’s returns. Higher deviation indicates higher volatility and risk.

Active Share measures the percentage of mutual fund assets that are invested differently from the benchmark.

Portfolio Management Team
Timothy F. Creedon, CFA
Director of Global Equity Research
New York
Hari Ramanan
CIO - Research Funds
New York
Timothy F. Creedon, CFA, Director of Global Equity Research
Timothy Creedon, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2005 and has been the Director of Research for the Global Equity Research Department since 2011. Tim previously served as an equity analyst covering Consumer companies for the firm. Before that, he worked at Lehman Brothers, also covering consumer stocks, and worked in the Private Equity group at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for analyzing and executing investments in early-stage telecom/media companies. Tim began his career at Merrill Lynch, where he worked in Investment Banking, covering the Communications industry. He is a CFA charterholder and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a concentration in International Economics. Tim is a member of the firm’s Partnership Committee and Investment Risk Committee.
Hari Ramanan, CIO - Research Funds

Hari Ramanan, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2019. Hari is a Portfolio Manager and CIO of Global Research Strategies at Neuberger Berman and leads the investing activities of the firm’s research-centric core and thematic funds. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman, Hari was Managing Partner of Valarc Holdings, a long-biased hedge fund backed by endowments and foundations to invest in a concentrated portfolio of globally traded equities that it looked to own for multiple years. In addition, the firm opportunistically took short positions in individual companies globally. Before founding Valarc in 2014, he served as a Portfolio Manager and Head of International Equities at Eminence Capital, a $7 billion equity long-short investment firm investing in quality companies globally. He joined Eminence in 2007 with a mandate to spearhead the firm’s international investing efforts. Prior to Eminence, Hari was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Basso Capital, a multi-strategy investment firm in Connecticut where he focused on European equity and distressed debt investments. Hari began his career at Lehman Brothers Private Equity Division in New York. He subsequently worked for Advent International, the global private equity firm, in London and focused on European buyouts. Hari earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Mathematics and Economics from Knox College in 2000. Hari served on the Board of Trustees of Knox College and its Investment Committee from 2009 to 2019.

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