Columbia Acorn USA
Data updated: 2023-05-25
C000122742 — Columbia Acorn USA. United States Blend / Core Equity · $170.93M AUM · 0.76% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000122742 Fund Overview
Columbia Acorn USA is a US mutual fund managed by Columbia Acorn Trust, categorised as United States Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Columbia Acorn Trust
- Category: United States Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $170.93M
- 1-year return: -12.2%
- SEC CIK: 0000002110
- SEC series ID: S000009186
- Share class ID: C000122742
C000122742 Investment Objective and Strategy
Columbia Acorn USA describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Columbia Acorn Trust.
Investment objective
Columbia Acorn USA ® (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount any borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. companies. Under normal circumstances, the Fund (i) invests a majority of its net assets in the common stock of small- and mid-sized companies with market capitalizations under $5 billion at the time of initial investment (Focus Stocks) and (ii) may also invest in companies with market capitalizations above $5 billion, provided that immediately after that investment a majority of the Funds net assets would be invested in Focus Stocks. The Fund may continue to hold, and make additional investments in, Focus Stocks whose market capitalizations have grown to exceed $5 billion, regardless of whether the Funds investments in Focus Stocks are a majority of the Funds net assets.
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC, the Fund's investment adviser (the Investment Manager), believes that stocks of small- and mid-sized companies, which generally are not as well known by financial analysts as larger companies, may offer higher return potential than stocks of larger companies. The Investment Manager typically seeks companies with: A strong business franchise that offers growth potential. Products and services in which the company has a competitive advantage. A stock price the Investment Manager believes is reasonable relative to the assets and earning power of the company. The Investment Manager may sell a portfolio holding if the security reaches the Investment Manager's price target, if the company has a deterioration of fundamentals, such as failing to meet key operating benchmarks, or if the Investment Manager believes other securities are more attractive.
The Investment Manager also may sell a portfolio holding to fund redemptions.
C000122742 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Columbia Acorn USA by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Columbia Short Term Cash Fund | 3.32% |
| Exponent Inc. | 2.08% |
| Sprout Social Inc | 2.01% |
| Manhattan Assoc, Inc. | 1.94% |
| Fate Therapeutics, Inc. | 1.83% |
| Qualys Inc | 1.81% |
| Acceleron Pharma, Inc. | 1.65% |
| ITT Inc | 1.51% |
| Foresight Acquisition Corp | 1.50% |
| Saia Inc | 1.50% |
C000122742 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Columbia Acorn USA by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.3% |
C000122742 Performance
Total returns for C000122742 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -12.2% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 10.7% |
C000122742 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000122742, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 29.2%
C000122742 Costs and Fees
C000122742 costs about $76 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.76%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.87%
- Portfolio turnover: 69%
- Brokerage commissions: 10.07 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000122742 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-03, Columbia Acorn USA had net outflows of $14.34M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-03 | −$1.63M |
| 2023-02 | −$422.35K |
| 2023-01 | −$1.07M |
| 2022-12 | −$1.52M |
| 2022-11 | −$1.35M |
| 2022-10 | −$917.48K |
C000122742 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Columbia Acorn USA's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000122742 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Columbia Acorn USA filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-05-15
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-02-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-11-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-03-15
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-03-15
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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.