Delaware Ivy Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fund

Delaware Ivy Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fund

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Key features

Emerging Market local currency debt can offer diversification and return enhancement

Actively managed solution that identifies opportunity and extracts alpha across the EMD local rates and currency universe

Dedicated team with multi-year experience of managing the full spectrum of EMD, supported by Macquarie’s global fixed income platform

Daily pricing as of 05/26/2023

NAV
NAV 1-day net change
Max offer price
$7.88

Total net assets as of 04/30/2023

All share classes
$19.5 million

Overview

Fund information
Inception date 04/30/2014
Dividends paid (if any) Quarterly
Capital gains paid (if any) December
Fund identifiers
NASDAQ IECIX
CUSIP 465899185

Benchmark and peer group

J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) Global Diversified (view definition)

Morningstar Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Category (view definition)

Performance

The performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted.

Total returns may reflect waivers and/or expense reimbursements by the manager and/or distributor for some or all of the periods shown. Performance would have been lower without such waivers and reimbursements.

Average annual total return as of month-end (04/30/2023)

Returns for less than one year are not annualized.

Benchmark lifetime returns are as of the Fund's inception date.

Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs, or expenses. Indices are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index.

Average annual total return as of quarter-end (03/31/2023)

Returns for less than one year are not annualized.

Benchmark lifetime returns are as of the Fund's inception date.

Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs, or expenses. Indices are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index.

Overall Morningstar RatingTM

Institutional Class shares - as of 04/30/2023

Rating No. of funds
Overall 2 75
3 years 3 75
5 years 2 72
Morningstar category Emerging-Markets Local-Currency Bond

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The Morningstar rating is based on risk-adjusted returns.

Morningstar ranking - as of 04/30/2023
1 year 49 / 79
3 years 52 / 75
5 years 59 / 72
10 years n/a
Morningstar category Emerging-Markets Local-Currency Bond

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The Morningstar ranking is based on historical total returns.

Lipper ranking - as of 04/30/2023
1 year 51 / 82
3 years 51 / 74
5 years 58 / 71
10 years n/a
Lipper classification Lipper Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fds

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The Lipper ranking is based on historical total returns.

Expense ratio

Gross
1.73%
Net
0.80%

Net expense ratio reflects a contractual waiver of certain fees and/or expense reimbursements from January 30, 2023 through January 30, 2024. Please see the fee table in the Fund's prospectus for more information.

Calendar year total returns @ NAV

Year
Annual return
Year
Annual return
2022
-12.47%
2021
-9.13%
2020
4.99%
2019
9.66%
2018
-9.65%
2017
9.88%
2016
8.16%
2015
-11.10%

Portfolio

Portfolio characteristics as of 04/30/2023

Number of holdings
105
Portfolio turnover (last fiscal year)
63%
Effective duration (weighted average) (view definition)
5.34 years
Effective maturity (weighted average) (view definition)
7.97 years
Yield to maturity (view definition)
7.63%
Average market price (view definition)
$91.04
Average coupon (view definition)
6.09%
Yield to worst (view definition)
7.63%
SEC 30-day yield with waiver (view definition)
6.61%
SEC 30-day yield without waiver (view definition)
5.39%
Annualized standard deviation, 3 years (view definition)
11.45

Portfolio composition as of 04/30/2023
Total may not equal 100% due to rounding.

Sovereign
87.4%
Cash/other
7.8%
Non-sovereign
4.9%

Top 10 fixed income holdings as of 04/30/2023

Holdings are as of the date indicated and subject to change.

List excludes cash and cash equivalents.

Holding
% of portfolio
Holding
% of portfolio
THAILAND KINGDOM OF (GOVERNMENT)
5.11
INDONESIA (REPUBLIC OF)
4.76
BRAZIL FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF (GO
3.96
MALAYSIA (GOVERNMENT)
3.48
BRAZIL FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF (GOV
3.13
CZECH REPUBLIC
2.48
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
2.46
MEXICO (UNITED MEXICAN STATES) (GO
2.43
MALAYSIA (GOVERNMENT)
2.12
SOUTH AFRICA (REPUBLIC OF)
2.05

Total % Portfolio in Top 10 holdings - 31.98%

List of monthly holdingsList of quarterly holdings

Fixed income sectors as of 12/31/2021

List may exclude cash, cash equivalents, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are used for cash management purposes. Please see the Fund’s complete list of holdings for more information.

Sector
Fund
Sector
Fund
Treasuries
81.6%
Sovereigns
0.5%

Credit quality as of 04/30/2023

Rating
Fund
Rating
Fund
AAA
13.6%
AA
9.5%
A
10.6%
BBB
46.0%
BB
20.0%
B
0.6%
Not rated
-0.2%

Total may not equal 100% due to rounding. The Fund’s investment manager, Delaware Management Company (DMC), a series of Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust, receives “Credit Quality” ratings for the underlying securities held by the Fund from three “nationally recognized statistical rating organizations” (NRSROs): Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch, Inc. The credit quality breakdown is calculated by DMC based on the NRSRO ratings. If two or more NRSROs have assigned a rating to a security the higher rating (lower value) is used. If only one NRSRO rates a security, that rating is used. For securities rated by an NRSRO other than S&P, that rating is converted to the equivalent S&P credit rating. Securities that are unrated by any of the three NRSROs are included in the “not rated” category when applicable. Unrated securities do not necessarily indicate low quality. More information about securities ratings is contained in the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information.

Distribution history - annual distributions (Institutional Class)1,2
Distributions ($ per share)

Year
Capital gains3
Net investment income
Year
Capital gains3
Net investment income
2023
0.000
0.000
2022
0.000
0.000
2021
0.000
0.000
2020
0.000
0.000
2019
0.000
0.111
2018
0.000
0.020
2017
0.000
0.280
2016
0.000
0.000
2015
0.000
0.000
2014
0.003
0.174
2013
0.000
0.000

1If a Fund makes a distribution from any source other than net income, it is required to provide shareholders with a notice disclosing the source of such distribution (each a "Notice"). The amounts and sources of distributions reported above and in each Notice are only estimates and are not provided for tax reporting purposes. Each Fund will send each shareholder a Form 1099 DIV for the calendar year that will provide definitive information on how to report the Fund's distributions for federal income tax purposes. The information in the table above will not be updated to reflect any subsequent recharacterization of dividends and distributions. Click here to see recent Notices pertaining to the Fund (if any).

2Information on return of capital distributions (if any) is only provided from June 1, 2014 onward.

3Includes both short- and long-term capital gains.

Management

Alex Kozhemiakin

Alex Kozhemiakin, CFA

  • Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt
  • Start date on the Fund: November 2021
  • Years of industry experience: 25
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Mansur Rasul

Mansur Z. Rasul 

  • Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager
  • Start date on the Fund: November 2021
  • Years of industry experience: 20
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Fees

Shareholder fees
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases as a percentage of offering price none
Maximum contingent deferred sales charge (load) as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption price, whichever is lower none
Annual fund operating expenses
Management fees 0.75%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees none
Other expenses 0.98%
Total annual fund operating expenses 1.73%
Fee waivers and expense reimbursements1 (0.93%)
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waivers and expense reimbursements 0.80%

Please see the prospectus and SAI for additional information.

1Net expense ratio reflects a contractual waiver of certain fees/and/or expense reimbursements from January 30, 2023 through January 30, 2024. Please see the fee table in the Fund's prospectus for more information.

Institutional Class shares are available only to certain investors. See the prospectus for more information.

1Investment Management Business Trust, the Fund’s investment manager, Delaware Distributors, L.P. (Distributor), the Fund’s distributor, and/or Waddell & Reed Services Company, doing business as WI Services Company (WISC), the Fund’s transfer agent, have contractually agreed to reimburse sufficient management fees, 12b-1fees and/or shareholder servicing fees to cap the total annual ordinary fund operating expenses (which would exclude interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses, if any) for Class I shares at 0.80%. Prior to that date, the expense limitation may not be terminated without the consent of the Board of Trustees (Board). Certain common expenses applicable to all share classes also may be waived to cap total annual ordinary fund operating expenses, which may serve to reduce the expense ratio of certain share classes.

Resources

On September 13, 2021, the Board of Trustees (Board) of the Ivy Funds approved the Fund name change to “Delaware Ivy Emerging Markets Local Currency Debt Fund” and the appointment of the portfolio manager team of Alex Kozhemiakin and Mansur Z. Rasul of DMC as new Fund portfolio managers. In addition, the Board approved appointing Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG, Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited, and Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited to provide discretionary investment management services in a sub-advisory capacity. The Board also approved the termination of the Fund’s current sub-advisor. All changes took effect on November 15, 2021.

Carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund's prospectus and it's summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting delawarefunds.com/literature or calling 877 693-3546. Investors should read the prospectus and the summary prospectus carefully before investing.

Carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund's prospectus and it's summary prospectus, which may be obtained by visiting delawarefunds.com/literature or calling 800 523-1918. Investors should read the prospectus and the summary prospectus carefully before investing.

The Fund's investment manager, Delaware Management Company (Manager), may seek investment advice and recommendations from its affiliates: Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited (MIMEL), Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG (MIMAK), and Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited (MIMGL) (together, the “Affiliated Sub-Advisors”). The Manager may also permit these Affiliated Sub-Advisors to execute Fund security trades on behalf of the Manager and exercise investment discretion for securities in certain markets where DMC believes it will be beneficial to utilize an Affiliated Sub-Advisor’s specialized market knowledge.

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.

The Fund may be unable to repatriate capital from its investments, in whole or in part, which may have an adverse effect on the cash flows and/or performance of the fund. Capital repatriation involves the transfer of corporate money or property from a foreign country back to its home country. The repatriation of capital with regard to investments made in certain securities or countries may be restricted during certain times from the date of such investments or even indefinitely.

The value of a credit-linked note may be impacted by its underlying reference obligation. Risks associated with underlying reference obligations, include but are not limited to market risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, default risk and foreign currency risk. The buyer of a credit-linked note assumes the risk of default by the issuer and the underlying reference asset or entity. If the underlying investment defaults, the payments and principal received by the Fund will be reduced or eliminated. Also, in the event the issuer defaults or there is a credit event that relates to the reference asset, the recovery rate generally is less than a fund’s initial investment, and a fund may lose money.

The Fund may invest in derivatives, which may involve additional expenses and are subject to risk, including the risk that an underlying security or securities index moves in the opposite direction from what the portfolio manager anticipated. A derivatives transaction depends upon the counterparties’ ability to fulfill their contractual obligations.

Longer-duration debt securities are more likely to decline in price than shorter duration debt securities in a rising interest rate environment. Duration is a measure of the price sensitivity of a debt security or portfolio to interest rate changes.

International investments entail risks including fluctuation in currency values, differences in accounting principles, or economic or political instability. Investing in emerging markets can be riskier than investing in established foreign markets due to increased volatility, lower trading volume, and higher risk of market closures. In many emerging markets, there is substantially less publicly available information and the available information may be incomplete or misleading. Legal claims are generally more difficult to pursue.

Fixed income securities and bond funds can lose value, and investors can lose principal, as interest rates rise. They also may be affected by economic conditions that hinder an issuer’s ability to make interest and principal payments on its debt.

The Fund may also be subject to prepayment risk, the risk that the principal of a bond that is held by a portfolio will be prepaid prior to maturity, at the time when interest rates are lower than what the bond was paying. A portfolio may then have to reinvest that money at a lower interest rate.

Currency risk is the risk that fluctuations in exchange rates between the US dollar and foreign currencies and between various foreign currencies may cause the value of the fund’s investments to decline. The market for some (or all) currencies may from time to time have low trading volume and become illiquid, which may prevent the fund from effecting positions or from promptly liquidating unfavorable positions in such markets, thus subjecting the fund to substantial losses.

If and when the Fund invests in forward foreign currency contracts or uses other investments to hedge against currency risks, the Fund will be subject to special risks, including counterparty risk.

The market values of bonds and other debt securities are affected by changes in interest rates. In general, when interest rates rise, the market value of a debt security declines, and when interest rates decline, the market value of a debt security increases. Generally, the longer the maturity and duration of a debt security, the greater its sensitivity to interest rates. The yields received by the Fund on its investments will generally decline as interest rates decline.

High yielding, non-investment-grade bonds (junk bonds) involve higher risk than investment grade bonds.

“Non-diversified” portfolios may allocate more of their net assets to investments in single securities than “diversified” portfolios. Resulting adverse effects may subject these portfolios to greater risks and volatility.

Portfolio turnover is a measure of how frequently the managers buy and sell assets within a fund over a particular period. It is usually reported for a 12-month time period.

IBOR risk is the risk that changes related to the use of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) or similar rates (such as EONIA) could have adverse impacts on financial instruments that reference these rates. The abandonment of these rates and transition to alternative rates could affect the value and liquidity of instruments that reference them and could affect investment strategy performance.

Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and can be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of the Fund’s investments. Given the increasing interdependence among global economies and markets, conditions in one country, market, or region are increasingly likely to adversely affect markets, issuers, and/or foreign exchange rates in other countries. These disruptions could prevent the Fund from executing advantageous investment decisions in a timely manner and could negatively impact the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective. Any such event(s) could have a significant adverse impact on the value and risk profile of the Fund.

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