Strategies/Equity Strategies
INTERNATIONAL GROWTH - Risk Management
PNC Capital Advisors' objective is to achieve excess returns while reducing excess risk in the portfolio. Our portfolio construction process is relative to our benchmark, the MSCI EAFE Growth Index.
  • Active risk relative to bench through tracking error of 4%-6%
  • Active securities level weighting vs benchmark
  • Currency views expressed via top-down country model

Industry constraints are contained at the security, sector and country levels.

 

 Minimum Allocation

 Maximum Allocation

 Stock

 Absolute Limit

 0%

 5%

 Country

 All EAFE Countries (>2%), ex. UK & Japan
 UK and Japan
 Non-EAFE Countries

 0%
 50% benchmark weight
 0%

 3x benchmark weight
 2x benchmark weight
 20% of total portfolio*

 Sector

 If < 10% in the benchmark
 if > 10% in the benchmark

 0%
 50% benchmark weight

 3x benchmark weight
 2x benchmark weight


*Investments in emerging markets and Canada are opportunistic with a maximum total allocation of 20%.