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Latin American Discovery Fund (Latin American Discovery Fund) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2018)


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What is Latin American Discovery Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Latin American Discovery Fund's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2018 was $0.17 Mil. Latin American Discovery Fund does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2018.


Latin American Discovery Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Latin American Discovery Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Latin American Discovery Fund Annual Data
Trend Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.34

Latin American Discovery Fund Semi-Annual Data
Dec17 Jun18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense - 0.17

Competitive Comparison of Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Latin American Discovery Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Latin American Discovery Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.


Latin American Discovery Fund  (NYSE:LDF) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Latin American Discovery Fund (Latin American Discovery Fund) Business Description

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Latin American Discovery Fund Inc is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments in equity and debt securities issued or guaranteed governmental entity.
Executives
City Of London Investment Group Plc 10 percent owner 77 GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON X0 EC3V0AS
Eric J Carlson officer: Portfolio Manager MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, 522 5TH AVENUE, FLOOR 20, NEW YORK NY 10036
Paul C Psaila officer: Portfolio Manager MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, 522 5TH AVENUE, FLOOR 20, NEW YORK NY 10036
City Of London Investment Management Co Ltd 10 percent owner 77 GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON X0 EC3V0AS
Patricia A Maleski director C/O J P MORGAN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC, 522 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Timothy J Knierim officer: CCO 100 MULBERRY STREET, NEWARK NJ 07102
Nancy Everett director 1812 PARK AVE, RICHMOND VA 23220
Jakki L. Haussler director 221 EAST FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Joseph C Benedetti officer: Vice President C/O INVESCO, 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281
John H Gernon officer: Principle Executive Officer 522 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Arthur Jason Lev officer: President and PEO 522 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Gaite Ali other: Portfolio Manager 522 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Sara Furber officer: President and PEO MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, 522 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Mary Ann Picciotto officer: CCO of the Advisor LORD, ABBETT & CO. LLC, 90 HUDSON STREET, JERSEY CITY NJ 07302
Frank J Smith officer: PFO & Treasurer C/O MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MAN, 1221 AVENUE OF THE AVENUE 22ND FL, NEW YORK NY 10020

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