Strategy Overview
Boston Common’s Catholic Emerging Markets Equity offering—an implementation of our Emerging Markets Strategy—invests in a diversified portfolio of high-quality companies with sound governance and sustainable business models selling into growing end markets. Catholic EM draws on a fundamental, bottom-up investment process that integrates proprietary sustainability guidelines aligned with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Strategy Details
Benchmark: MSCI Emerging Markets
Holdings: 40 – 60
Inception Date: December 31, 2020
Vehicle Options
- Separate account
- Commingled fund
Strategy News
The Catholic Emerging Markets Equity strategy was named to the PSN Top Guns List for Q2 2026 as one of the top ten performers for the one-year and three-year periods in the Global/Intl Equity Commingled Funds Universe*.
*PSN Top Guns Global / Intl Equity Commingled Funds Universe includes 40 Firms and 75 Products. BCAM received the 1 Year award for the quarter ending 03/31/2026. The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim to be GIPs-compliant. These top performers are strictly based on one-year and three-year period returns.
Strategy Highlights
- Research-driven conviction
- Low turnover
- Active share: 75-90%
- Active shareholder engagement approach seeks improvements in company policies, processes, and products
