American Beacon Advisors Rounds Out Ninety One Offerings With Adoption of Emerging Markets Equity Fund

Emerging markets generate 58% of global GDP yet make up only 9% of equity portfolios

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Beacon Advisors, Inc. (“American Beacon”), an experienced provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets, announced today that it has assumed management of the Ninety One Emerging Markets Equity Fund with Ninety One North America, Inc. (“Ninety One”) assuming the sub-advisor role. Effective February 21, 2025, American Beacon will serve as the investment advisor and Ninety One will serve as sub-advisor to the newly adopted fund: American Beacon Ninety One Emerging Markets Equity Fund; R5 Class: ZEMIX; R6 Class: ZEMRX; Y Class: ZEMAX (“the Fund”).

The Fund’s transition marks another significant achievement in the partnership between American Beacon and Ninety One. Following a year of collaboration and groundwork, highlighted by the successful adoption of Ninety One’s Global Franchise and International Franchise funds in November 2024, the Fund rounds out American Beacon’s Ninety One offerings, contributing to a comprehensive suite of investment solutions.

Greg Stumm, president and CEO of Resolute Investment Managers and American Beacon, said: “We believe Ninety One has a unique perspective on emerging markets and recognize the need investors have for a dedicated solution in the emerging-markets space. The yearlong foundation established between our groups makes this adoption a natural next step. We look forward to raising awareness about the opportunities emerging markets presents to our clients.”

The Fund, which is managed by Ninety One’s Varun Laijawalla and Archie Hart, co-emerging markets equity portfolio managers, is a core solution designed to exploit the opportunities in emerging markets and generate alpha across emerging-market cycles. A high-conviction fund, it aims to achieve consistent, long-term capital growth by actively investing in a diversified portfolio, using a style-agnostic, fundamental approach to access high-conviction, bottom-up opportunities. The Fund focuses on value, quality, operating momentum and investor attention to evaluate emerging-market companies. By combining deep, fundamental research with data-driven insights from Ninety One’s proprietary alpha model, the Fund seeks to exploit pricing anomalies driven by behavioral biases with the view of delivering consistent, long-term, risk-adjusted performance.

Richard Garland, managing director and head of the Global Advisor Business at Ninety One, said: “Emerging markets generate 58% of global GDP yet make up only 9% of equity portfolios¹. As a global investment manager with deep roots in emerging markets, Ninety One offers a distinct perspective, empowering clients to unlock long-term value within this asset class. Through our strategic partnership with American Beacon, we can continue to expand our U.S. footprint through their distribution network and deliver comprehensive, long-term solutions to meet investors’ needs.”

Varun Laijawalla, the Fund’s co-portfolio manager at Ninety One, said: “Emerging-market assets are typically under-represented in investors’ portfolios, yet they are home to a diverse range of growing economies and companies, and are increasingly important for investor portfolios. Moreover, emerging markets can help to diversify against the highly concentrated U.S. equity market within a global-equity allocation, and at an attractive price.”

For more information about the Fund, visit www.americanbeaconadvisors.com.

About American Beacon Advisors

American Beacon Advisors, Inc., an investment affiliate of Resolute Investment Managers, Inc., is an experienced provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets. Established in 1986, American Beacon Advisors serves defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, corporations and other institutional investors, as well as retail clients. The firm also provides corporate cash management and fixed-income separate account management. American Beacon Advisors manages the American Beacon Funds, a series of competitively priced mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. The Funds employ a “manager of managers” investment style and currently include international and domestic equity, fixed income and money market funds. As of December 31, 2024, American Beacon Advisors had $58.8 billion in assets under management. For more information, visit www.americanbeaconadvisors.com.

About Ninety One

Ninety One is an active, global investment manager managing $163 billion in assets as of December 31, 2024. Their goal is to provide long-term investment returns for clients while making a positive difference to people and the planet. Established in South Africa in 1991 as Investec Asset Management, the firm began as a small start-up offering domestic investments in an emerging market. In 2020, as a global firm proud of their emerging-market roots, they demerged to become Ninety One. Ninety One is committed to developing specialist investment teams organically. Their heritage and approach let them bring a different perspective to active and sustainable investing across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives to their clients – institutions, advisors and individual investors around the world. For more information, visit NinetyOne.com.

Disclosures

You should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The prospectus and summary prospectus contain this and additional information regarding the Fund. To obtain a prospectus or summary prospectus for the Fund, contact your financial advisor, call 800.967.9009 or visit americanbeaconfunds.com. The prospectus and summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing.

Important Information: Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Risks associated with the Fund: Investing in foreign and emerging markets may involve heightened risk due to currency fluctuations and economic and political risks. Geopolitical and other events have led to market disruptions causing adverse changes in the value of investments broadly. Changes in value may be temporary or may last for extended periods. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in a particular country or geographic region, its performance will be sensitive to factors affecting that country or region. To the extent the Fund invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be sensitive to factors affecting those sectors. Information Technology sector companies may face intense competition and rapid product obsolescence; have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel; and lose patent, copyright and trademark protections. The Fund’s incorporation of environmental, social and/or governance (ESG) considerations in its investment strategy may cause it to underperform funds that do not incorporate these considerations. The Fund participates in a securities lending program. Please see the prospectus for a complete discussion of the Fund’s risks. There can be no assurances that the investment objectives of the Fund will be met.

The American Beacon Funds are distributed by Resolute Investment Distributors, Inc.

American Beacon is a registered service mark of American Beacon Advisors, Inc. American Beacon Funds and American Beacon Ninety One Emerging Markets Equity Fund are service marks of American Beacon Advisors, Inc.

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^1 Sources: Population and GDP breakdown are from the IMF; equity ownership is based on allocations tracked by Broadridge (as at Q3 2023).