AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio
Data updated: 2023-03-16
C000116761 — AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio. Bond · $47.73M AUM · 1.03% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000116761 Fund Overview
AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Advanced Series Trust, categorised as Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Advanced Series Trust
- Category: Bond
- Assets under management: $47.73M
- 1-year return: -16.2%
- SEC CIK: 0000814679
- SEC series ID: S000037841
- Share class ID: C000116761
C000116761 Investment Objective and Strategy
AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Advanced Series Trust.
Investment objective
The investment objective of the Portfolio is to seek to maximize total return.
Principal investment strategy
In pursuing its investment objective, the Portfolio normally invests at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus any borrowings made for investment purposes) in fixed income securities issued by governments, government related entities and corporations located in emerging markets, and related instruments. The Portfolio is non-diversified, which means that it can invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers. The Portfolio: (i) will normally invest in issuers located in no less than three emerging market countries; (ii) may invest without limit in high yield debt securities and related investments (sometimes referred to as junk bonds); and (iii) may invest up to 50% of its assets in non-US dollar denominated fixed income securities. The Portfolio also may invest in derivative instruments.
C000116761 Performance
Total returns for C000116761 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -16.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -4.4% |
C000116761 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000116761, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.6%
C000116761 Costs and Fees
C000116761 costs about $103 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.03%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.03%
- Portfolio turnover: 77%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.04 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000116761 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-12, AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio had net inflows of $139.90M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-12 | $1.47M |
| 2022-11 | $1.54M |
| 2022-10 | $1.14M |
| 2022-09 | $5.20M |
| 2022-08 | $3.34M |
| 2022-07 | $7.38M |
C000116761 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000116761 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official AST Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-14
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-04-15
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2020-07-10
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-02-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-11-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-08-19
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-03-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-03-14
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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.