The investment objective of the Balkan Sub-Fund is to provide long-term capital growth through exposure to companies in the Balkan region. The Sub-Fund will invest at least 50% of its assets in securities of issuers domiciled in Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. The Sub-Fund may also invest in securities of issuers not domiciled in the aforementioned countries but which exercise a significant part of their economic activity there. At least 75% of the Sub-Fund’s assets will be invested in equity or equity-related securities (such as, but not limited to, ADRs and GDRs of the aforementioned issuers). Under normal market conditions, investment in debt instruments of any kind will not exceed 25% of the Sub-Fund's assets.