The Fund’s principal investment objective is to provide long-term capital appreciation. The Fund invests principally in transferable equity securities of companies (i) incorporated in the frontier markets countries, or (ii) which have their principal business activities in frontier markets countries across the market capitalisation spectrum. The frontier markets countries are smaller, less developed and less accessible emerging markets countries, but with “investable” equity markets and include those defined as frontier markets by the International Finance Corporation as well as included in frontier markets related indices (including but not limited to MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Select Countries Capped Index, Merrill Lynch Frontier Index, S&P Frontier Broad Market Index), for example Bahrain, Bulgaria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Vietnam etc.