MERKX — Merk Hard Currency Fund
Data updated: 2022-11-17
MERKX — Merk Hard Currency Fund data: holdings, portfolio allocation, expenses, performance, cashflows, risk and SEC filings. Money Market · $39.34M AUM · 1.32% expense ratio · -16.5% 1-yr return. From SEC regulatory filings.
MERKX Fund Overview
MERKX — Merk Hard Currency Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Forum Funds, categorised as Money Market. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Forum Funds
- Category: Money Market
- Assets under management: $39.34M
- 1-year return: -16.5%
- Ticker: MERKX
- SEC CIK: 0000315774
- SEC series ID: S000004558
- Share class ID: C000012475
MERKX Performance
Total returns for MERKX (as of 2026-08-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -16.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -6.1% |
MERKX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MERKX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.4%
MERKX Costs and Fees
MERKX costs about $132 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.32%
- Portfolio turnover: 68%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.07 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MERKX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-09, Merk Hard Currency Fund had net outflows of $6.18M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-09 | −$861.52K |
| 2022-08 | −$521.64K |
| 2022-07 | −$2.04M |
| 2022-06 | −$617.48K |
| 2022-05 | −$139.65K |
| 2022-04 | −$201.74K |
MERKX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Merk Hard Currency Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
MERKX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Merk Hard Currency Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
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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.