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Emerging Markets Debt Opportunities Fund The investment team applies its fundamental, country-level economic and political research process combined with valuation analysis in directing Fund investments. The Fund provides exposures to select currencies, local interest rates, sovereign credit, and corporate credit across emerging-market economies in an opportunistic fashion including significant exposure to off-benchmark countries.
Emerging Markets Local Income Fund The investment team applies its fundamental, country-level economic and political research process combined with valuation analysis across more than 100 countries in directing Fund investments. The Fund provides exposures to select currencies and local interest rates of emerging-market economies in a benchmark-aware fashion while including significant exposure to off-benchmark countries.
European High Yield Bond Fund Seeks to provide an attractive rate of return, measured in euro, through investments worldwide primarily in lower rated and unrated fixed income securities issued by governments, agencies and corporations that offer a yield above that generally available on debt securities in the four highest rating categories of S&P or Moody's denominated in European currencies.

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