Mackenzie International Quantitative Small Cap (EAFE)

Inception: August 2019

Benchmark: MSCI EAFE Small Cap Total Return Index

Lead Portfolio Managers: Arup Datta, MBA, CFA

Investment Adviser: Mackenzie Investments Corporation

• We are alpha centric and innovation focus in constructing short- and long- term alpha factors, tailoring active portfolio positioning and minimizing transaction cost drag.
• We are core focus that aims to deliver more consistent alpha profile across a wide array of market environments.
• We are nimble in enabling efficient implementation of new research and incorporating daily rebalancing with strict capacity constraints.
• We take a risk, transaction cost and benchmark aware approach, and combine with human oversight to monitor portfolio exposure.

The Mackenzie Global Quantitative Equity team believes in a core approach using fundamental ideas in a disciplined, risk-aware, systematic investment process. Our team’s priority in executing the investment process is to remain nimble in seeking to generate alpha for clients. To retain this advantage, we use a proprietary transaction cost model and focus on capacity.

• Bottom-up, quantitative stock selection process applied to a broad small-cap investable universe of over 4,500 securities across 21 developed countries.
• Stocks are analyzed through a region/sector relative model framework.
• Individual stock weights are assigned based upon sub-factors, which are grouped into the four super factors, Value, Revisions, Quality and Informed Investor.
• Contextual modeling is utilized to further refine the weights of factors assigned to stocks.

• Profile - Mackenzie International Quantitative Small Cap (EAFE) – CAD
• Profile - Mackenzie International Quantitative Small Cap (EAFE) – USD

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Composite Description

The International Quantitative Small Cap (EAFE) Composite seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation and outperform its benchmark by investing in a portfolio of small-capitalization securities of companies in developed international markets outside Canada and the United States. The strategy applies a quantitative, bottom-up stock selection investment process, based on fundamental insights, to international markets

across large and mid-cap stocks. The investment process focuses on a succinct, high conviction set of factors, which are applied within the context of a region/sector/industry relative model. The composite inception and creation date is September 1, 2019.

Benchmark Description

The benchmark is the MSCI EAFE Small Cap Total Return Index, net of withholding taxes. The MSCI EAFE Small Cap Index is a free float adjusted, market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the small cap equity market performance of developed markets in the world, excluding US and Canada. It consists of 21 developed market country indices.

List of Composites and Pooled Funds

A list including composite descriptions, pooled fund descriptions for limited distribution pooled funds, and broad distribution funds is available upon request. Please contact Dean Silver at dean.silver@mackenzieinvestments.com.