Over the last three months, the Fund outperformed its sector average to rank in the second quartile of its peer group for this period. Gartmore's Japan Opportunities Fund is managed on an active quantitative basis. This investment approach is well-suited to the Japanese markets, which yield opportunities for active quantitative research and investing.Stocks are selected through the use of Gartmore's proprietary quantitative models, which rank the relative attractiveness of equities based on qualitative measures of estimate revision, momentum, valuation and earnings quality. Our model is built entirely from fundamental inputs and as managers we have final say over every position.