AFQSX — Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-10
AFQSX — Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund. 1.73% expense ratio · since 2019. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
AFQSX Fund Overview
AFQSX — Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Pfs Funds, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Pfs Funds
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $23.74M
- 1-year return: 21.9%
- Ticker: AFQSX
- SEC CIK: 0001103243
- SEC series ID: S000066397
- Share class ID: C000214257
AFQSX Investment Objective and Strategy
Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Pfs Funds.
Investment objective
? The Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (?ETFs?) and equity index futures. The Fund implements a quantitative trend-following strategy by generally holding long positions in S&P 500 Index ETF(s) and equity index futures that provide either long and/or short exposure to the equity markets. The Fund?s ETF investments will typically consist of ETFs that have the S&P 500 Index as the reference index. The reference index and corresponding ETF investment(s) may be market cap or equal weighted. Alpha Fiduciary, Inc., the Fund?s investment adviser (the ?Adviser?), has developed a quantitative trend-following strategy that is designed to determine the Fund?s exposure to the equity markets, adjusting that exposure from approximately -105% to 165% at the time of purchase or sale.
The exposure to the equity markets may move outside the range of -105% to 165% due to market changes and shareholder transactions. The Adviser will use one or more sets of data inputs in its model as well as the corresponding ETF(s) which they believe most appropriate for the prevailing market conditions. As a result of the Fund?s use of derivatives, the Fund may also hold significant amounts of U.S. Treasuries or short-term investments, including money market funds, cash and time deposits. The Adviser?s quantitative strategy seeks to identify price trends in the equity markets as indicated by the S&P 500 reference index. The quantitative investment model uses past asset prices and other market information to seek to determine the direction of the price trend in the S&P 500 reference index.
The investment model tends to overweight the equity markets as the market moves towards the upper end of its intermediate trading range and underweight the equity markets when the market trades toward the lower end of its intermediate trading range. For certain months where market events produce large upward or downward price patterns, the quantitative model is designed to adjust the Fund?s exposure to the equity markets accordingly (i.e., greater exposure when market is moving up and less exposure when market is moving down). Based on the signals being received from the quantitative investment model, the Fund will generally take a long or short position in S&P 500 equity index futures. Stock index futures are contracts based on the future value of the basket of securities that comprise the underlying stock index (e.g.
S&P 500 Index). The Fund?s long positions will benefit from an increase in price of the S&P 500, while short positions benefit from a decrease in price of the S&P 500. The Fund adjusts its equity index futures exposure based on the strength of signals from the quantitative investment model. The Adviser may, in its discretion, override or modify its quantitative investment model and rely solely on its own proprietary research. The Fund is a ""non-diversified"" fund, which means it can invest in fewer securities at any one time than a diversified fund and can invest more of its assets in securities of a single issuer than a diversified fund. The Fund may invest a significant percentage of its assets in a limited number of securities. Also, the Fund may invest in a limited number of sectors but has no intention to concentrate its investments in any particular industry.
The investment strategy may result in significant short-term trading in the Funds portfolio."
AFQSX Holdings
Top 3 holdings of Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| iShares Trust - iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 77.43% |
| Goldman Sachs Trust - Goldman Sachs Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund Institutional Class | 8.09% |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange | 0.26% |
AFQSX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 77.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 8.1% |
| Derivatives | 0.3% |
AFQSX Performance
Total returns for AFQSX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 12.39% |
| 1 year | 21.90% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 6.54% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 1.96% |
AFQSX Risk Information
Risk metrics for AFQSX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.73%
AFQSX Costs and Fees
AFQSX costs about $173 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.73%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.73%
- Portfolio turnover: 465%
- Brokerage commissions: 4.41 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
AFQSX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund had net outflows of $629.42K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | $20.18K |
| 2026-03 | −$120.29K |
| 2026-02 | $13.10K |
| 2026-01 | $25.01K |
| 2025-12 | $9.46K |
| 2025-11 | $0 |
AFQSX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
AFQSX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Alpha Fiduciary Quantitative Strategy Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-11-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-11-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-11-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-10
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-16
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-20
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-09-24
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-10-03
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.