Global> Natural Resources-Materials > NA

Mar 08, 2013

The European Union is made up of economies growing at different rates and industries and companies that are experiencing different business cycles. Systemic investing process can uncover companies that are still trading at a discount to intrinsic values.

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Oct 31, 2012

Market volatility could be detrimental to long-term investing. Yet, a disciplined investment strategy can leverage market volatility along with investor fear to its advantage. Robert Straus, portfolio manager of the ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund, follows a systematic process of identifying stocks with a superior price-to-value ratio within industries offering the best relative value.

US> Multi-Cap > Value

Nov 02, 2010

The ICON International Equity Fund applies a systematic approach to investing in sectors that ICON believes are in the early stage of international market leadership. Portfolio manager Scott Snyder describes how sector rotation plays an important role in generating returns.

US> Large-Cap > Growth

Sep 26, 2007

ICON believes the news, the theories, and all the noise in the market can lead only to emotions and beliefs that distort the true worth of a company or an industry. That’s why Todd Burchett, the manager of the ICON Long/Short Fund, focuses on the results of the fund’s quantitative system in an effort to spot market opportunities presented by investors’ emotional responses to news and current events.

Global> Real Estate > NA

Mar 12, 2007

With the premise that the market can misprice stocks, Todd Burchett, the manager of the ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund, relies on a quantitative system to value stocks. The non-emotional system calculates value-to-price ratios and points to the industries that the system identifies as being on sale and can potentially lead the market.

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Aug 28, 2006

Investing in Asian Pacific stocks is a daunting task. With more than fifteen exchanges, currencies and economic cycles, investment managers need a specific focus and well-honed quantitative discipline. The ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund invests in sectors and industries rather than companies to mitigate country and currency risks. The sectors and industries across the region may be a better way to exploit investment arbitrage than to build a country-specific fund.