ARTBX — Artisan International Explorer Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-28
ARTBX — Artisan International Explorer Fund. Developed ex-US Small Cap Value Consumer Discretionary Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ARTBX Fund Overview
ARTBX — Artisan International Explorer Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Artisan Partners Funds INC, categorised as Developed ex-US Small Cap Value Consumer Discretionary Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Artisan Partners Funds INC
- Category: Developed ex-US Small Cap Value Consumer Discretionary Equity
- Assets under management: $552.41M
- Ticker: ARTBX
- SEC CIK: 0000935015
- SEC series ID: S000076279
- Share class ID: C000235882
ARTBX Investment Objective and Strategy
Artisan International Explorer Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Artisan Partners Funds INC.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks long-term capital growth.
Principal investment strategy
The Funds investment team employs a fundamental investment process to construct a diversified portfolio of securities of undervalued, primarily non-US small companies. The team seeks to invest in what the team considers to be high quality, undervalued companies with strong balance sheets and shareholder-oriented management teams. The teams investment process focuses on four key characteristics: Undervaluation Determining the intrinsic value of a business is the heart of the teams research process. The team believes that intrinsic value represents the amount that a buyer would pay to own a companys future cash flows. The team seeks to invest at a significant discount to its estimate of the intrinsic value of a business. Business Quality The team seeks to invest in companies with histories of generating strong free cash flow, improving returns on capital and strong competitive positions in their industries.
Financial Strength The team believes that investing in companies with strong balance sheets helps to reduce the potential for capital risk and provides company management the ability to build value when attractive opportunities are available. Shareholder-Oriented Management The teams research process attempts to identify management teams with a history of building value for shareholders. Companies that make it through this analytical process are ranked at the time the position is initiated according to the degree of the discount of the current market price of the stock to the teams estimate of the companys intrinsic value. The team manages the portfolio by generally taking larger positions in companies where the discount is greatest and smaller positions in companies with narrower discounts (subject to adjustments for investment-related concerns, including diversification, risk management and liquidity).
As part of the investment process, the team considers financially material environmental, social and governance factors alongside other fundamental research. The focus of the investment process is on individual companies, not on selection of countries or regions. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests no less than 65% of its total assets (excluding cash and cash equivalents), measured at market value at the time of purchase, in common stocks and other securities of non-US companies. The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest a greater portion of its assets in a more limited number of issuers than a diversified fund. As a result, a high percentage of the Funds total assets may be invested in a particular company, sector or industry. The Fund may invest a substantial portion of its total assets in emerging and less developed markets.
The Fund may invest in companies of any size, but anticipates investing primarily in small-capitalization (small-cap) companies. Small-cap companies for this purpose are those companies with a market capitalization below $5 billion at the time of the Funds investment. The Fund may invest to a limited extent in equity-linked securities that provide economic exposure to a security of one or more non-US companies without direct investment in the underlying securities (called participation certificates in the Funds prospectus, but may be called different names by issuers). The Fund may (but is not required) to hedge against the risk of loss resulting from currency fluctuation. The Fund invests primarily in equity securities but, from time to time, the team may conclude that a security other than an equity security presents a more attractive risk/reward profile.
Accordingly, the Fund may invest to a limited extent in debt securities of US and non-US issuers , including loans, that meet the Funds investment criteria. The Fund may invest in debt securities of any maturity or duration.
ARTBX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Artisan International Explorer Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| BlackRock Liquidity Funds Treasury Trust Fund | 13.28% |
| Glenveagh Properties plc | 12.02% |
| IQE plc | 8.95% |
| Impro Precision Industries Ltd. | 5.27% |
| Elementis plc | 5.11% |
| Zuken, Inc. | 4.45% |
| Kansai Paint Co. Ltd. | 4.35% |
| Alten SA | 4.03% |
| Steadfast Group Ltd. | 3.16% |
| Lion Corp. | 2.92% |
ARTBX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Artisan International Explorer Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 84.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 13.4% |
| Derivatives | 2.1% |
ARTBX Performance
Total returns for ARTBX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 20.6% |
| 1 year | 19.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 16.9% |
ARTBX Risk Information
Risk metrics for ARTBX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 16.6%
ARTBX Costs and Fees
ARTBX costs about $152 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.52%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.72%
- Portfolio turnover: 27%
- Brokerage commissions: 5.96 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ARTBX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Artisan International Explorer Fund had net inflows of $157.64M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $10.41M |
| 2026-05 | $5.17M |
| 2026-04 | $463.57K |
| 2026-03 | $4.27M |
| 2026-02 | $15.70M |
| 2026-01 | $22.24M |
ARTBX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Artisan International Explorer Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
ARTBX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Artisan International Explorer Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-01-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-02-02
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-09-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-12-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-13
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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.