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Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select SMA

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

Overview

Why Invest in This Strategy?

 

  • Flexible, focused core equity portfolio that invests primarily in companies in the emerging markets.
  • Proven bottom-up fundamental research process focused on discovering strong companies with leading market positions, solid management teams, robust corporate governance and conservative capital structures.
  • Three-basket approach to portfolio construction with a focus on strong businesses helps to mitigate downside risk and seeks to produce strong risk-adjusted outperformance across many different market environments.
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)
YTD
1y
3y
5y
Inception
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - "Pure" Gross (%)
30.84
30.84
15.15
3.24
8.82
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - Net (%)
27.10
27.10
11.82
0.23
5.66
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (%)
33.57
33.57
16.40
4.20
8.07
YTD
1y
3y
5y
Inception
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - "Pure" Gross (%)
6.99
40.15
16.18
3.55
9.61
Thornburg Emerging Markets ADR Select Strategy - Net (%)
6.48
36.17
12.82
0.53
6.43
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (%)
14.83
49.96
21.53
6.31
9.93
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
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%
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 (%)
Benchmark (%)

Portfolio

Benchmark

0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
Information Technology
30.4
33.2
Financials
27.3
20.7
Consumer Discretionary
19.2
10.4
Industrials
6.0
7.3
Consumer Staples
5.4
3.4
Communication Services
4.3
7.6
Energy
3.9
3.7
Cash & Equivalents
3.5
Health Care
0.0
2.9
Materials
0.0
7.5
Real Estate
0.0
1.3
Utilities
0.0
2.2
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 (%)
Benchmark (%)

Portfolio

Benchmark

0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment
26.3
19.4
Banks
20.4
15.4
Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail
12.5
4.8
Consumer Services
5.7
1.4
Insurance
4.8
2.7
Food, Beverage & Tobacco
4.3
2.1
Software & Services
4.1
1.3
Energy
3.9
3.7
Capital Goods
3.3
5.7
Transportation
2.7
1.5
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 (%)
Benchmark (%)
Region

Portfolio

Benchmark

0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Taiwan
16.5
22.5
Asia Pacific ex Japan
United States
13.0
North America
China
10.3
23.1
Asia Pacific ex Japan
India
10.2
12.8
Asia Pacific ex Japan
Brazil
9.7
4.6
Latin America
Hong Kong
8.2
Asia Pacific ex Japan
Mexico
6.5
2.0
Latin America
South Africa
4.2
3.4
Other
Singapore
3.8
Asia Pacific ex Japan
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
3.7
18.1
Asia Pacific ex Japan
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 (%)
Benchmark (%)

Portfolio

Benchmark

0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Large Cap (> $12 B)
89.5
86.5
Mid Cap ($2.5 to $12 B)
9.8
13.5
Small Cap (< $2.5 B)
0.7
0.0
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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