AHLPX — American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund, Investor Class

AHLPX Fund Overview

AHLPX — American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund, Investor Class is a US mutual fund managed by American Beacon Funds, categorised as Commodity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: American Beacon Funds
• Category: Commodity
• Assets under management: $1.75B
• 1-year return: 25.6%
• Ticker: AHLPX
• SEC CIK: 0000809593
• SEC series ID: S000046078
• Share class ID: C000144089

AHLPX Investment Objective and Strategy

American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by American Beacon Funds.

Investment objective

The Funds investment objective is capital growth.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by implementing a quantitative trading strategy and systematic investment process designed to capitalize on price trends (up and/or down) in a broad range of around 120 global markets by utilizing derivative instruments to seek exposure to stock indices, bonds, currencies, and interest rates. As the owner of a long position in a derivative instrument, the Fund may benefit from an increase in the price of the underlying investment and, as the owner of a short position, the Fund may benefit from a decrease in the price of the underlying investment. The Fund invests primarily in derivatives, including futures contracts (such as equity index futures, bond index futures, interest rate futures, treasury futures, and non-U.S. currency futures), and foreign currency forward contracts, including non-deliverable forwards (NDFs).

The Fund also may invest in swaps, and other types of derivative instruments linked to stock indices, currencies, bonds, interest rates and commodity instruments. The Fund expects that, under normal market conditions, the notional value of its derivatives exposure generally will exceed that of its net assets. In order to meet collateral requirements in connection with the Funds use of derivatives, which may be used for hedging purposes or for exposure to a market, the Fund may hold significant amounts of (1) U.S. government securities, including U.S. Treasury securities, (2) other foreign developed market sovereign short-term bonds issued by countries such as France, Germany, Japan and other developed countries, (3) short-term investments, (4) cash and (5) time deposits. The Fund may obtain market exposure by investing in an affiliated exchange-traded fund (ETF) with respect to which the Manager receives a management fee and the sub-advisor receives an investment advisory fee .

Additionally, the Fund may invest in bonds and zero coupon securities, ? U.S. and non-U.S. currencies and instruments denominated in non-U.S. currencies. The Funds investments are generally made without restriction as to issuer market capitalization, country, currency, or maturity. The Fund may invest in issuers in the U.S. and foreign developed and emerging? markets. The Fund seeks to gain exposure to the commodity futures markets by investing up to 25% of its total assets in a wholly-owned subsidiary, which is organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiary). Generally, the Subsidiary invests primarily in commodity futures, but it may also invest in financial futures and forwards and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including open-end investment companies, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiarys derivative positions.

The Fund invests in the Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax law, rules and regulations that apply to regulated investment companies. Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivatives, however, the Subsidiary and the Fund, in the aggregate, comply with applicable requirements for derivatives transactions set forth in Rule 18f-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the Investment Company Act). In addition, the Fund and the Subsidiary comply with the same fundamental investment restrictions on an aggregate basis, and the Subsidiary follows the same compliance policies and procedures as the Fund to the extent those restrictions, policies and procedures are applicable to the investment activities of the Subsidiary.

Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiary does not, and will not, seek to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Subchapter M). The Fund is the sole shareholder of the Subsidiary and does not expect shares of the Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors. The sub-advisor employs computerized processes to identify investment opportunities across a wide range of markets around the world. Investment decisions are ?executed via the sub-advisors proprietary execution strategy. ?The investment decision ?process is quantitative and primarily directional in nature, meaning that investment decisions are driven by mathematical models based on market trends and other historical relationships. It is underpinned by risk control, ongoing research, diversification and the quest for efficiency.

The Funds holdings may be frequently adjusted to reflect the sub-advisors assessment of changing risks, which could result in high portfolio turnover. The sub-advisors strategy is designed to provide an excess return with a stable level of volatility regardless of market conditions. The sub-advisor seeks to do this by using systematic algorithms (a mathematical model) to scale positions based on the net asset value (NAV) of the Fund. The algorithm measures the degree of volatility in a particular market. As volatilities increase, the algorithm will look to reduce exposure. Conversely, it will increase exposure, subject to risk limits, if the market is calm and volatilities are decreasing. This technique is called `volatility scaling and can be applied at various levels to achieve a balanced risk exposure through time, and across different asset classes.

Volatility scaling aims to achieve a certain target level of volatility which is stable through time. The Fund has set an annualized volatility target of 10% of its NAV. Volatility is defined as the annualized standard deviation of returns. It is important to note that both the short and long term realized volatility of the Fund can and will differ from the targeted volatility and can be dependent on prevailing market conditions. ? The cornerstone of the sub-advisors investment philosophy is that the financial markets exhibit trends and other inefficiencies. Trends are a manifestation of serial correlation in financial markets the phenomenon whereby past price movements influence price behavior. Although price trends vary in their intensity, duration and frequency they typically recur across sectors and markets.

Trends are an attractive focus for active trading styles applied across a range of global markets. In implementing its investment program, the Fund may hold significant cash positions from time to time. The Fund may have significant exposure to issuers located in, or with economic ties to, Europe and Japan. However, as the sector and geographic composition of the Funds portfolio changes over time, the Funds exposure to Europe and/or Japan may decline, and the Funds exposure to other geographic areas may increase. The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it is not limited to a percentage of assets that it may invest in any one issuer.

AHLPX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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AHLPX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

AHLPX Performance

Total returns for AHLPX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

AHLPX Risk Information

Risk metrics for AHLPX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.31%

AHLPX Costs and Fees

AHLPX costs about $193 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.93%
• Gross expense ratio: 2.17%
• Portfolio turnover: 0%
• Brokerage commissions: 10.22 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

AHLPX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund had net outflows of $585.68M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

AHLPX Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

AHLPX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official American Beacon AHL Managed Futures Strategy Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-29
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-12-05
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-11
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-18
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-16
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-13

Related Funds

Other Commodity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
• VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ)
• Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (PDBC)
• PIMCO CommoditiesPLUS Strategy Fund (PCLAX)
• First Eagle Gold Fund (SGGDX)

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.