DIEMX
Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth Fund
Driehaus Mutual Funds
Expense ratio1
0.98%
Net assets2
$4.23B
Holdings2
99
Category
International Equity
2025 return3
30.22%

Investment objective & strategy

As of April 28, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth Fund seeks to maximize capital appreciation.

Strategy. The Fund uses a growth style of investment in equity securities, including common stocks and other equity securities of issuers, and under normal market conditions, invests substantially all (no less than 80%) of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes) in emerging markets companies. Emerging market companies are (i) companies organized under the laws of an emerging market country or having securities which are traded principally on an exchange or over-the-counter in an emerging market country; or (ii) companies which, regardless of where organized or traded, have a significant amount of assets located in and/or derive a significant amount of their revenues from goods purchased or sold, investments made or services performed in or with emerging … The Fund uses a growth style of investment in equity securities, including common stocks and other equity securities of issuers, and under normal market conditions, invests substantially all (no less than 80%) of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes) in emerging markets companies. Emerging market companies are (i) companies organized under the laws of an emerging market country or having securities which are traded principally on an exchange or over-the-counter in an emerging market country; or (ii) companies which, regardless of where organized or traded, have a significant amount of assets located in and/or derive a significant amount of their revenues from goods purchased or sold, investments made or services performed in or with emerging market countries. There are no specific limitations on the percentage of assets that may be invested in securities of issuers located in any one country at a given time; the Fund may invest significant assets in any single emerging market country. The Fund generally defines an emerging market as including, but not limited to, any of the countries or markets represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, or any other country or market with similar emerging characteristics. The Fund may invest in companies with limited or no operating histories. The Fund frequently and actively trades its portfolio securities. Investment decisions for the Funds growth style of investing, for those companies with operating histories, are based on the determination that a companys revenue and earnings growth can materially exceed market expectations and that a company possesses the ability to undergo an incrementally positive change in growth and earnings trajectories. These decisions involve evaluating fundamental factors, including the companys business model, the competitive landscape, upcoming product introductions and recent and projected financial metrics. The evaluation of behavioral and macro factors represents significant aspects of the investment advisers philosophy and are integrated into the investment advisers bottom-up analysis on individual securities. The decision is also informed by the evaluation of technical or market factors, including price and volume trends, relative strength and institutional interest. To a lesser extent, the Funds investment adviser also utilizes macroeconomic or country-specific analyses to evaluate the sustainability of a companys growth rate. The Fund sells holdings for a variety of reasons, including the deterioration of the earnings profile, the violation of specific technical thresholds, to shift into securities with more compelling risk/reward characteristics or to alter sector or country exposure.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
TSMC TSMWF $322.62M 7.63%
SAMSUNG ELECTRON $241.44M 5.71%
TENCENT $203.08M 4.80%
Northern Institutional Funds GOVT SELECT PT BGSXX $180.09M 4.26%
TAIWAN SEMIC MFG CO LTD SP ADR $175.08M 4.14%
SK Hynix Inc. KRW5000 HXSCF $133.84M 3.17%
COMMON STOCK BABAF $112.59M 2.66%
Grupo Financiero Banorte S.A. de C.V. GFNORTEO MM $75.50M 1.79%
ASE TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO LT /TWD/ 0.00000000 3711 $70.53M 1.67%
SABESP ON /CIA SANEAMENTO BASICO ESTADO DE SAO PAULO ORDINARY REGISTERED /BRL/ 0.00000000 SBSP3 $69.14M 1.64%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
28
Exited
33
Increased
44
Decreased
23
Unchanged
4

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of December 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Driehaus Capital Management LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of April 28, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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