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At Commonwealth Funds, we’re here to invest our time in providing investment news and insights to benefit fund shareholders. Our insights keep up with the growth of the emerging markets we invest in. These articles help investors grow their financial knowledge, make more informed decisions regarding their assets and investing in emerging markets, and bring it home.
Commonwealth Funds announced the following dividend declarations for the funds indicated. Year-end 2025 distributions for the Commonwealth Funds were paid on December 15, 2025, to shareholders of record as of December 12, 2025. The ex-dividend and reinvest date was December 15, 2025. Please see detailed distribution information below. Africa Fund (CAFRX): Ordinary Investment Income per share:… read more
Photo: Left to Right: Surafell Kebede, Gezahgen Kebede, Robert Scharar, and Ryan Scharar on a trip to Ethiopia in 2017 Ethiopia is home to some of the world’s oldest stories – most notably, Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old hominid fossil that reshaped our understanding of human evolution. Today, Ethiopia once again marks its place in history –… read more
At FCA Corp, we deeply admire and support Rice University’s healthcare innovation efforts to support individuals and families in underserved communities and resource-limited countries. As a Texas-based holistic wealth management firm with decades of experience investing in Africa and other frontier markets—both directly and through our global mutual funds—we have seen firsthand the urgent need… read more
by Robert Scharar, FCA Corp I am a capitalist and as business oriented as you will ever find, but I also believe we have a role to play in investing. Emerging market companies need customers and if we want to have customers in our businesses, we need to help build a consumer class with resources… read more
By Robert Scharar, President of FCA Corp and the Commonwealth International Series Trust mutual funds. Having just spent two weeks in Japan, the Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu Happy New Year greeting was in the air so was the image of the rabbit which is this year’s zodiacal animal. As I interacted with Japanese people and read… read more
Through decades of direct investment, participatory business consulting, and our Africa mutual fund, our investment advisory firm FCA Corp has developed dedicated research and ongoing analysis on the African continent. There are key events in the development of the emerging African economies and their growing consumerism that we find important enough to spotlight and critique.… read more