This fund enables investors to gain exposure to growing economies by focusing on well-established companies within those regions. Under typical market conditions, it commits a minimum of 80% of its total assets to stocks or equity-related financial products issued by corporations based in emerging market countries. These companies can be of any size by market value. For this fund's purposes, emerging markets broadly include all countries globally, with the specific exceptions of the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the majority of Western European nations.