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 1 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 28 Feb 2026)Assets
$33.7 M*
Benchmark
MSCI Emerging Markets Index
eVestment Category
SMA/Wrap - Emerging Mkts Equity
Performance
Performance
Returns
(As of 31 Dec 2025)2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - "Pure" Gross (%)
17.91
-6.46
-17.89
7.29
8.77
30.84
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - Net (%)
14.51
-9.21
-20.34
4.17
5.61
27.10
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (%)
18.31
-2.54
-20.09
9.83
7.50
33.57
Characteristics
Characteristics
Portfolio
(As of 28 Feb 2026)Portfolio
Benchmark
Number of Holdings
32
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Weighted Average Market Cap
$464.3 B
$377.0 B
Median Market Cap
$50.5 B
$12.3 B
Annual Portfolio Turnover
59%
—
Price to Earnings - Forward 1YR
15.0x
13.8x
Portfolio
Benchmark
Price to Earnings - Trailing 12 Months
19.6x
18.2x
Price to Cash Flow
11.6x
10.7x
Price to Book Value
2.9x
2.4x
Active Share
76.4%
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Portfolio
Portfolio
Top Holdings
(As of 31 Jan 2026)Name
Ticker/Symbol
Sector
Weight %
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
TSM
Information Technology
14.6
Micron Technology, Inc.
MU
Information Technology
8.0
Naspers Ltd.
NPSNY
Consumer Discretionary
6.2
AIA Group Ltd.
AAGIY
Financials
5.0
Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras
PBR
Energy
3.6
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
BABA
Consumer Discretionary
3.5
ICICI Bank Ltd.
IBN
Financials
3.5
Bank Central Asia Tbk PT
PBCRY
Financials
3.4
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd.
TTNDY
Industrials
3.2
MercadoLibre, Inc.
MELI
Consumer Discretionary
3.2
Exposure Breakdown
Exposure Breakdown
(As of 28 Feb 2026)Sector Allocation
Portfolio (%)
Information Technology
30.4
Financials
27.3
Consumer Discretionary
19.2
Industrials
6.0
Consumer Staples
5.4
Communication Services
4.3
Energy
3.9
Cash & Equivalents
3.5
Health Care
0.0
Materials
0.0
Real Estate
0.0
Utilities
0.0
Top 10 Industries
Portfolio (%)
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment
26.3
Banks
20.4
Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail
12.5
Consumer Services
5.7
Insurance
4.8
Food, Beverage & Tobacco
4.3
Software & Services
4.1
Energy
3.9
Capital Goods
3.3
Transportation
2.7
Top 10 Countries
Portfolio (%)
Taiwan
16.5
United States
13.0
China
10.3
India
10.2
Brazil
9.7
Hong Kong
8.2
Mexico
6.5
South Africa
4.2
Singapore
3.8
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
3.7
Capitalization
Portfolio (%)
Large Cap (> $12 B)
89.5
Mid Cap ($2.5 to $12 B)
9.8
Small Cap (< $2.5 B)
0.7
Portfolio Managers
Portfolio Managers
Pablo Echavarria, CFA
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Pablo Echavarria, CFA, is a portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management, rejoining the firm in 2025. From 2018 to 2025, Pablo was a portfolio manager and business analyst at WCM. Earlier in his career, he joined Thornburg in 2014 as an equity research analyst and was promoted to associate portfolio manager in 2015. He worked as a global equity analyst…
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Di Zhou, CFA, FRM®
Portfolio Manager and Managing Director
Di Zhou, CFA, FRM, is a portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management, rejoining the firm in 2025. From 2021 to 2025, Di was an investment principal at Cambiar. Prior to Cambiar, she joined Thornburg in 2010 as an equity research analyst and was promoted to associate portfolio manager in 2014, then to portfolio manager in 2015. Di began her career…
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