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Key features

  • The Fund has an all-weather strategy with consistent outperformance and top quartile metrics
  • The Fund uses fundamental and data science tools to drive systematic, bottom-up stock evaluation
  • The Fund seeks to minimize country, region, sector and industry risks relative to index, and its portfolio aims for consistent exposure to well-researched return drivers

Q: How can I add the NVIT International Equity Fund to my portfolio?

A: The Fund is a Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust (NVIT) fund available within certain Nationwide® variable annuities and variable universal life products. Visit our VIT fund research tool for more details.

Q: What is the Fund’s investment objective and philosophy?

A: The Fund seeks long-term capital growth by investing primarily in equity securities of companies located in Europe, Australasia, the Far East and other regions, including developing countries.

Q: What is the Fund’s investment management strategy?

A: The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of companies of any size located outside the United States, including those that derive at least 50% of their earnings, revenues or assets internationally. It targets both growth and value-oriented companies believed to be undervalued relative to their intrinsic worth.

Q: In what type of market(s) would you expect the Fund to outperform?

A: The strategy is designed for consistent performance in all market conditions — no extreme swings or style tilts (e.g., growth or value). Tactical positions, which are short-term and opportunistic investments, are avoided to maintain a stable and long-term investment strategy. The strategy avoids manager biases, maintaining a consistent and disciplined approach built on 4 main factors with 3 or 4 historically positive sub-factors each, ensuring strong attribution and performance.

Q: What is the Fund’s process for stock selection?

A: The portfolio construction process aims to maximize exposure to attractively ranked securities while maintaining strict risk controls on various factors. The investment approach is bottom-up and company-specific, minimizing exposure to broad macroeconomic trends. It uses a proprietary, systematic process to evaluate approximately 3,500 developed and emerging market stocks daily, focusing on fundamentals such as growth potential, valuation, market sentiment and quality. This disciplined, quantitative method ensures that portfolio construction is driven by deep insights at the individual company level.

Q: What is the Fund’s risk management process?

A: It avoids biases toward specific styles, capitalization, geography or sectors, ensuring diversification with country exposure and position sizes fluctuating within +/- 3% of the benchmark. The strategy relies on bottom-up stock selection for 90% to 95% of performance attribution, with minor sector and geographic differences accounting for the rest. Stocks are selected based on value, growth, sentiment and earnings quality, using a balanced approach to control risks relative to the benchmark. Position sizes are determined by stock attractiveness and risk impact, supplemented by an independent risk management group.
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NVIT Funds are not sold to individual investors. These investment options are underlying subaccounts and cannot be purchased directly by the public. They are available only through variable products issued by life insurance companies. There is no assurance that the investment objective of any fund (or that of any underlying fund) will be achieved or that a diversified portfolio will produce better results than a nondiversified portfolio. Diversification does not guarantee returns or insulate an investor from potential losses, including the possible loss of principal. When evaluating the purchase of a variable annuity product, your clients should be aware that variable annuity products are long-term investment vehicles designed for retirement purposes and will fluctuate in value; and investing involves market risk, including possible loss of principal.

KEY RISKS: The Fund is subject to the risks of investing in equity securities (including small companies). Smaller companies are usually less stable in price and less liquid than larger, more established companies. Smaller companies are more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business and economic developments and may have more limited resources. Therefore, they generally involve greater risk. The Fund also is subject to the risks of investing in foreign securities (currency fluctuations, political risks, differences in accounting and limited availability of information, all of which are magnified in emerging and frontier markets). The Fund uses both a growth style and a value style of investing, and may underperform other funds that use different investing styles. Please refer to the most recent prospectus for more detailed information.

MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index: An unmanaged, free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the performance of large-cap and mid-cap stocks in global developed and emerging markets as determined by MSCI; excludes the United States. Indexes are unmanaged and have been provided for comparison purposes only. No fees or expenses have been reflected. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index. The Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by MSCI, and MSCI bears no liability with respect to any such funds or securities or any index on which such funds or securities are based.

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