International Growth Stock Trust

C000090647 Fund Overview

International Growth Stock Trust is a US mutual fund managed by John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as China Growth Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust
• Category: China Growth Equity
• Assets under management: $62.13M
• SEC CIK: 0000756913
• SEC series ID: S000029541
• Share class ID: C000090647

C000090647 Investment Objective and Strategy

International Growth Stock Trust describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust.

Investment objective

The fund seeks to achieve long-term growth of capital.

Principal investment strategy

"The fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of international securities whose issuers are considered by the fund's subadvisor to have potential for earnings or revenue growth. The fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks. The fund invests primarily in the securities of large-capitalization issuers; however, the fund may invest a significant amount of its net assets in the securities of mid-capitalization issuers. The fund invests primarily in equity and depositary receipts of in foreign issuers. The principal types of equity securities in which the fund invests are common and preferred stock. The fund's equity securities investments include China-A Shares (shares of companies based in mainland China that trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange).

The fund invests, under normal circumstances, in issuers economically tied to at least three countries outside of the U.S. The fund may also invest in issuers located in developing countries (emerging markets). Under normal circumstances, the maximum percentage of the fund's net assets that may be invested in these issuers is 1.25 times of the emerging market weight of the MSCI All Country World ex-USA Growth Index. The fund invests primarily in the securities of large-capitalization issuers and may invest a significant amount of its net assets in the securities of mid-capitalization issuers. The fund can invest in derivative instruments including forward foreign currency contracts and futures. The fund can utilize forward foreign currency contracts to hedge against adverse movements in the foreign currencies in which portfolio securities are denominated, though the fund has not typically used these instruments.

The fund can also invest in futures contracts to gain exposure to the broad market in connection with managing cash balances or to hedge against downside risk. The fund has the ability to hedge currency exposures created by its investments in foreign securities. The portfolio managers employ a disciplined investment strategy that emphasizes fundamental research. The fundamental research primarily focuses on identifying quality growth companies and is supported by quantitative analysis, portfolio construction and risk management. Investments for the portfolio are selected bottom-up on a security-by-security basis. The focus is on the strengths of individual issuers, rather than sector or country trends. The portfolio managers' strategy primarily focuses on identifying issuers that they believe have sustainable earnings growth, efficient capital allocation, and attractive prices.

The fund's portfolio managers may consider selling a security for several reasons, including when (1) its price changes such that they believe it has become too expensive, (2) the original investment thesis for the company is no longer valid, or (3) a more compelling investment opportunity is identified. Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use various hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions, including, but not limited to, U.S. Treasury futures and options, index derivatives, credit default swaps and currency forwards, described under ""Additional Information about the Funds' Principal Risks Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk."""

C000090647 Costs and Fees

C000090647 costs about $126 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.26%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.27%
• Portfolio turnover: 46%
• Brokerage commissions: 266.07 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000090647 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2019-09, International Growth Stock Trust had net inflows of $29.37M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000090647 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in International Growth Stock Trust's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000090647 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official International Growth Stock Trust filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-05-17
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-05-18
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2017-05-19
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2019-11-27
• Annual census, amended (N-CEN/A) — filed 2019-07-05

Related Funds

Other China Growth Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Tema Space Innovators ETF (NASA)
• SoFi Emerging Markets Efficient Growth ETF (EMEG)
• Tema Memory ETF (DISK)

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.