BAERX — Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-31
BAERX — Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $578.87M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
BAERX Fund Overview
BAERX — Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Sterling Capital Funds, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Sterling Capital Funds
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $578.87M
- 1-year return: 45.7%
- Ticker: BAERX
- SEC CIK: 0000889284
- SEC series ID: S000003555
- Share class ID: C000084352
BAERX Investment Objective and Strategy
Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Sterling Capital Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks capital growth and current income.
Principal investment strategy
To pursue its investment objective, the Fund will invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities. The Fund invests, under normal market conditions, primarily in dividend-paying equity securities, in particular common stocks of companies with a history of increasing dividend rates. The Fund may also invest in U.S. traded common stocks of foreign companies, including American Depositary Receipts. As part of its investment strategy, the Fund may invest in convertible securities that offer above average current yield with participation in underlying equity performance. Because yield is a consideration in selecting securities, the Fund may purchase stocks of companies that are out of favor in the financial community and, therefore, are selling below what the portfolio manager believes to be their long-term investment value.
The Fund may invest in securities of issuers of any capitalization range. The portfolio manager may consider selling a stock owned by the Fund when the factors that induced the portfolio manager to buy the stock have changed, the portfolio manager anticipates a negative change in the company's dividend policy, or to reduce the Fund's position in a particular stock if the stock represents a disproportionately large position within the Fund's portfolio. In addition, the Fund may engage in writing covered call options on securities to generate income from premiums received in connection with the option. A call option gives the buyer the right to buy, and obligates the option seller to sell a security at a specified price. Generally, a written call option is covered if a fund owns the security or instrument underlying the call or has an absolute right to acquire that security or instrument without additional cash consideration.
When the Fund writes a covered call option on a security, the Fund limits its opportunity to profit from an increase in the market price of the security above the exercise price of the option. The Fund will not write a covered call option if, as a result, the aggregate fair value of all portfolio securities covering call options exceeds 50% of the fair value of its net assets.
BAERX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Analog Devices, Inc. | 4.46% |
| Philip Morris International, Inc. | 4.35% |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 4.33% |
| Jp Morgan Chase & Company | 4.25% |
| Eaton Corp. PLC | 4.20% |
| Linde PLC | 4.05% |
| Southern Company (the) | 4.01% |
| American Express Company | 3.91% |
| Charles Schwab Corp. (the) | 3.90% |
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 3.89% |
BAERX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.6% |
BAERX Performance
Total returns for BAERX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 45.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 17.4% |
BAERX Risk Information
Risk metrics for BAERX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 15.6%
BAERX Costs and Fees
BAERX costs about $129 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.29%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.29%
- Portfolio turnover: 51%
- Brokerage commissions: 4.43 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
BAERX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund had net outflows of $512.45M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$15.50M |
| 2026-05 | −$45.48M |
| 2026-04 | −$23.15M |
| 2026-03 | −$49.45M |
| 2026-02 | −$27.39M |
| 2026-01 | −$39.89M |
BAERX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
BAERX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Sterling Capital Equity Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-01-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-01-31
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-02-02
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-31
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- 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.