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EMERGING ECONOMIES

Strategy Objective

A globally diversified strategy that seeks to find equity securities of companies with significant exposure to emerging economies.

Attributes
  • Rigorous Capital Structure Analysis
  • Holistic Approach Tying Macro Perspectives to Fundamental Analysis
  • High Active Share
  • Team-Managed
Benefits
  • Diversification from Market Capitalization Weighted Indices
  • Leveraging the Experience of over 50 Investment Professionals
  • Flexibility to pursue attractive Risk/Reward opportunities across country, market capitalization and sector

Sector Weightings

AS OF 31/3/13
% of Assets MSCI Emerging Markets Index Under/Overweight %
Information Technology 35.1% 14.0%
Consumer Staples 17.1 9.1
Health Care 11.1 1.3
Energy 9.3 11.9
Industrials 8.1 6.5
Financials 6.2 27.7
Consumer Discretionary 5.4 7.8
Materials 4.6 10.7
Telecommunication Services 3.1 7.4
Utilities 0.0 3.6
 

Representative Portfolio Ten Largest Holdings

AS OF 31/3/13
Company Country Sector %
Companhia de Bebidas das Americas Brazil Consumer Staples 5.2
Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. South Korea Information Technology 4.9
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Taiwan Information Technology 4.6
Novo Nordisk, A/S - Class B Denmark Health Care 4.1
Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd. India Information Technology 3.3
Genomma Lab Internacional, SAB de CV Mexico Health Care 3.0
QUALCOMM, Inc. United States Information Technology 2.9
HCL Technologies Ltd. India Information Technology 2.6
Temasek Financial, Ltd. (Standard Chartered, PLC) United Kingdom Financials 2.3
Pegatron Corp. Taiwan Information Technology 2.2

Characteristics

AS OF 31/3/13
  Calamos Portfolio MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Assets in Strategy $530.6 million N/A
# of Holdings 78 823
Portfolio Turnover
%(Since Inception)
58.9% N/A
Median Market Cap ($bil) $15.4 $4.7
Weighted Average Market Cap ($bil) $66.1 $39.3
ROIC % 22.9% 16.8%
Debt/Capital % 18.4% 27.6%
PEG Ratio (1 year forward) 1.2x 1.1x

Largest Country Weightings

AS OF 31/3/13
Representative Portfolio MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Taiwan 14.6% 10.7%
India 12.8% 6.6%
United States 10.5% 0.2%
United Kingdom 8.5% 0.0%
South Korea 8.3% 14.9%
Hong Kong 7.6% 5.4%
Brazil 7.2% 12.7%
China 6.3% 12.7%
Switzerland 4.6% 0.0%
Denmark 4.1% 0.0%

Global Summary

AS OF 31/3/13
Representative Portfolio MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Developed Markets 45.7% 0.0%
Emerging Markets 54.3% 0.0%

Composite Summary

AS OF 31/3/13
Period Ending Composite Assets (in Millions) Total Assets (in Millions) % Of Total Assets Managed # Of Clients Average Acct. Size (in Millions)
12/31/2012 437 30,580 1.4% 2 219
12/31/2011 321 32,777 1.0% 2 160
12/31/2010 136 35,414 0.4% 1 136
12/31/2009 49 32,144 0.2% 1 49
12/31/2008 19 23,522 0.1% 1 19

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As of 31/3/13

Annualized Total Returns

1.39%7.49%18.81%
0.16%6.25%17.48%
2.31%3.59%19.94%

As of 31/3/13

Calendar Year Returns




As of 31/3/13

Rolling 3-Year Returns

3 Years Ended




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Risk/Reward Since Inception

AS OF 31/3/13
  Calamos Emerging Economies Composite MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Alpha 4.12% N/A
Beta 0.70 1.00
Standard Deviation 17.27% 23.56%
Upside Semivariance 20.47% 36.05%
Downside Semivariance 6.86% 13.26%
Sharpe Ratio 1.10 0.84
Information Ratio -0.25 N/A

Since Inception Up/Down Capture Vs. MSCI Emerging Markets Index

AS OF 31/3/13

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Strategy Vehicles

Separately Managed Accounts Minimum: $25 million
Commingled Pool $5 million
Available for both qualified and non-qualified plans.
Institutional Mutual Fund (CNWIX) Minimum $1 million

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Fact Sheet The Emerging Economies Strategy fact sheet provides a snap shot of the investment team, the investment strategy, performance, composition, ratings and returns.
Performance Review A discussion of the Calamos Emerging Economies Strategy’s performance versus a benchmark, positioning, related market commentary, and outlook.
Equity Valuation Process A review of Calamos Investments’ research process for determining a company’s business valuation and how Calamos research uncovers the economic profits of a company and how our research determines the quality of the cash flows, the return on capital, and finally, the equity’s valuation.
Investment Team View the Growth/Convertible Team biographies
Fine-Tuning Exposure to Growth in Emerging Economies The Calamos Investment team discusses our flexible, risk-managed approach to uncovering growth opportunities emanating from emerging markets.

Strategy Details




As of 31/3/13
Inception Date:
01/12/08
Strategy Assets*:
$530.6 M
Benchmark:
MSCI Emerging Markets Index

Resources

* Strategy Assets includes assets under management as well as assets for which the company provides model portfolio design and oversight.