Fundamental Global Franchise Fund
Data updated: 2025-04-28
C000116036 — Fundamental Global Franchise Fund. Global (incl. US) Multi-Cap / All-Cap Growth Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000116036 Fund Overview
Fundamental Global Franchise Fund is a US mutual fund managed by John Hancock Funds II, categorised as Global (incl. US) Multi-Cap / All-Cap 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 Funds II
- Category: Global (incl. US) Multi-Cap / All-Cap Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $125.96M
- 1-year return: 9.5%
- SEC CIK: 0001331971
- SEC series ID: S000037602
- Share class ID: C000116036
C000116036 Investment Objective and Strategy
Fundamental Global Franchise Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by John Hancock Funds II.
Investment objective
The fund seeks to provide capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of franchise companies. A franchise company is one whose return on invested capital over a three-year period is above its cost of capital. Return on invested capital quantifies how well a company generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in its business, while its cost of capital refers to the cost of raising money to fund its business. These companies will have a leading share of industry sales, the ability to generate consistent sales growth over time as their products and services attract a larger customer base, and a strong record of return on capital invested in the company with a sustainable competitive advantage, meaning bargaining power with buyers and/or sellers and a unique product or process that is difficult to replicate or substitute and hard for others to compete with.
Under normal market conditions, at least 40% of the value of the fund's net assets will be invested in issuers domiciled outside of the United States, which includes securities for which the relevant reference entity is domiciled outside the United States, such as American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) that trade on U.S. exchanges. The manager's primary method of analysis is fundamental analysis, which is the ability to assess the health of a company, its competitive positioning, its strength of management, and its competitive advantages. Investment decisions are a function of finding stocks that possess the qualitative factors as outlined above and the manager believes are trading at a significant discount to the manager's estimation of value. The fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund and may invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer.
The fund may invest significantly in securities of companies in certain sectors, such as the consumer staples and consumer discretionary sectors (as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS)), and may therefore experience greater volatility than funds investing in a broader range of sectors and may be more susceptible to the impact of market, economic, regulatory, and other factors affecting that sector. The manager focuses on the equity securities of small-, mid-, and large-capitalization companies in both developed and emerging countries. The manager primarily invests in common stocks of developed and emerging companies, as well as ADRs, which trade on U.S. exchanges.
C000116036 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Fundamental Global Franchise Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Amazon.com Inc. | 7.94% |
| Danone | 5.23% |
| eBay Inc. | 5.14% |
| Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV | 4.39% |
| Exor N.v. | 3.98% |
| Liberty Media Corporation | 3.88% |
| Comcast Corporation | 3.84% |
| Heineken Holding N.V. | 3.64% |
| Cheniere Energy Inc. | 3.29% |
| Haleon plc | 3.11% |
C000116036 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Fundamental Global Franchise Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 96.6% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.5% |
C000116036 Performance
Total returns for C000116036 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 9.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 6.9% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 10.6% |
C000116036 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000116036, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.6%
C000116036 Costs and Fees
C000116036 costs about $92 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.92%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.93%
- Portfolio turnover: 17%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.69 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000116036 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2025-02, Fundamental Global Franchise Fund had net outflows of $118.63M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2025-02 | −$110.91M |
| 2025-01 | −$6.16M |
| 2024-12 | $39.36M |
| 2024-11 | −$3.84M |
| 2024-10 | −$778.59K |
| 2024-09 | −$4.98M |
C000116036 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Fundamental Global Franchise Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000116036 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Fundamental Global Franchise Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-12-20
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-12-21
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-12-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-04-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2025-01-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-10-29
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-11-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-11-08
Related Funds
Other Global (incl. US) Multi-Cap / All-Cap Growth Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:
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.