Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select SMA
BENCHMARK: MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Strategy Overview
The Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy uses a bottom-up, fundamental approach to investing and targets a core return profile across the market cap spectrum, focusing on strong businesses that are attractively valued and have well identified paths to success. A defining aspect of the strategy is a three-basket approach to portfolio construction which mitigates benchmark-relative risk, ensures balanced style exposure and allows stock selection to be the main alpha driver.
Important Update: Effective 2 April 2025, the Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Strategy name has been changed to the Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy.
Strategy Inception Date
1 Nov 2018
Portfolio Managers
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Overview
Key Facts
Key Facts
(As of 31 Mar 2025)Assets
$80.1 M*
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Number of Holdings
46
Portfolio Turnover
100%
eVestment Category
SMA/Wrap - Emerging Mkts Equity
Performance
Performance
Returns
(As of 31 Dec 2024)2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - Gross (%)
31.16
17.91
-6.46
-17.89
7.29
8.77
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - Net (%)
27.42
14.51
-9.21
-20.34
4.17
5.61
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (%)
18.42
18.31
-2.54
-20.09
9.83
7.50
Characteristics
Characteristics
Portfolio
(As of 31 Mar 2025)Portfolio
Benchmark
Weighted Average Market Cap
$161.1 B
$158.2 B
Median Market Cap
$21.9 B
$8.8 B
Price to Earnings - Forward 1YR
11.8x
12.4x
Price to Earnings - Trailing 12 Months
13.7x
13.9x
Price to Cash Flow
9.0x
8.0x
Portfolio
Benchmark
Price to Book Value
1.8x
1.8x
Return on Assets - 5 YR
7.2%
8.3%
Return on Equity - 5 YR
17.2%
16.1%
Historical 3YR Sales Growth
14.4%
18.8%
Active Share
76.8%
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Portfolio
Portfolio
Top Holdings
(As of 28 Feb 2025)Name
Ticker/Symbol
Sector
Weight %
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
TSM
Information Technology
11.0
ICICI Bank Ltd.
IBN
Financials
8.3
Naspers Ltd.
NPSNY
Consumer Discretionary
6.2
Micron Technology, Inc.
MU
Information Technology
5.5
HDFC Bank Ltd.
HDB
Financials
4.6
China Construction Bank Corp.
CICHY
Financials
3.2
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
BABA
Consumer Discretionary
3.2
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.
HKXCY
Financials
3.0
KB Financial Group, Inc.
KB
Financials
2.9
Infosys Ltd.
INFY
Information Technology
2.2
Exposure Breakdown
Exposure Breakdown
(As of 31 Mar 2025)Sector Allocation
Portfolio (%)
Financials
36.9
Information Technology
21.6
Consumer Discretionary
16.8
Energy
5.8
Consumer Staples
4.7
Industrials
4.6
Materials
3.2
Cash & Cash Equivalents
2.2
Health Care
1.9
Utilities
1.5
Real Estate
0.9
Communication Services
0.0
Top 10 Industries
Portfolio (%)
Banks
30.6
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment
18.9
Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail
11.7
Energy
5.8
Consumer Services
5.0
Financial Services
4.2
Materials
3.2
Food, Beverage & Tobacco
2.8
Software & Services
2.7
Transportation
2.7
Top 10 Countries
Portfolio (%)
India
19.7
China
17.3
Taiwan
11.2
United States
9.8
South Africa
7.7
Hong Kong
6.4
Brazil
5.7
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
5.6
Singapore
3.4
Mexico
2.9
Capitalization
Portfolio (%)
Large Cap (> $12 B)
83.2
Mid Cap ($2.5 to $12 B)
15.9
Small Cap (< $2.5 B)
0.9
Portfolio Managers
Portfolio Managers

Charles Wilson, PhD
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Charlie Wilson is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined the firm in 2012 as associate portfolio manager and was promoted to portfolio manager in 2014. Charlie earned a BS in geology from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a PhD in geophysics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to joining Thornburg, Charlie served as co-portfolio…
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Josh Rubin
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Josh Rubin is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined Thornburg in 2017, initially working with the global strategies before being named associate portfolio manager in 2018, and portfolio manager in 2021. Before Thornburg, Josh worked at Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, where he was first an associate portfolio manager responsible for emerging markets, and then the portfolio manager…
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