WCM Focused Global Growth Fund
Data updated: 2024-11-25
C000127814 — WCM Focused Global Growth Fund. Global (incl. US) Large Cap Growth Equity · $517.66M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000127814 Fund Overview
WCM Focused Global Growth Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Investment Managers Series Trust, categorised as Global (incl. US) Large 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: Investment Managers Series Trust
- Category: Global (incl. US) Large Cap Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $517.66M
- 1-year return: 39.4%
- SEC CIK: 0001318342
- SEC series ID: S000041214
- Share class ID: C000127814
C000127814 Investment Objective and Strategy
WCM Focused Global Growth Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Investment Managers Series Trust.
Investment objective
"The investment objective of the WCM Focused Global Growth Fund (the ""Fund"") is long-term capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund invests primarily in equity securities of companies located throughout the world, including the United States. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 40% of its net assets in companies organized, headquartered or doing a substantial amount of business outside the United States including emerging and frontier market countries. Emerging and frontier countries or markets are those countries or markets with low- to middle-income economies as classified by the World Bank or included in any of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) emerging markets or frontier markets indices. The Fund's advisor considers a company to be in an emerging or frontier country or market if the company has been organized under the laws of, has its principal offices in, or has its securities principally traded in, the emerging or frontier country or market, or if the company derives at least 50% of its revenues, net profits or incremental revenue growth (typically over the past five years) from, or has at least 50% of assets or production capacities in, the emerging or frontier country or market.
The Fund's advisor considers a company that has at least 50% of its assets, or derives at least 50% of its revenues from business, outside the United States as doing a substantial amount of business outside the United States. The Fund's equity investments include common stock and depository receipts. The Fund's investments in depository receipts may include American, European, Canadian and Global Depository Receipts (""ADRs"", ""EDRs"", ""CDRs"" and ""GDRs"", respectively). The Fund's advisor uses a bottom-up approach that seeks to identify companies with attractive fundamentals, such as long-term historical growth in revenue and earnings, and/or a strong probability for superior future growth. The advisor's investment process seeks companies that are industry leaders with strengthening competitive advantages; corporate cultures emphasizing strong, quality and experienced management; low or no debt; and attractive relative valuations.
The Fund's advisor also considers other factors including political risk, monetary policy risk, and regulatory risk in selecting securities. Although the Fund may invest in securities of any size companies, it generally invests in the securities of large, established multinational companies. The Fund generally invests in securities of companies located in different regions and in at least three different countries. However, from time to time, the Fund may have a significant portion of its assets invested in the securities of companies in one or a few countries or regions. The Fund may make significant investments in certain sectors or group of sectors within a particular industry or industries from time to time."
C000127814 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of WCM Focused Global Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| AppLovin Corp | 6.09% |
| General Electric Co | 4.73% |
| Amazon.com Inc | 4.71% |
| 3i Group PLC | 4.55% |
| Novo Nordisk A/S | 4.09% |
| MSILF Treasury Portfolio | 4.08% |
| Tsmc | 3.80% |
| Microsoft Corp | 3.63% |
| NVIDIA Corp | 3.25% |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | 3.11% |
C000127814 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of WCM Focused Global Growth Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 92.6% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.1% |
| Other | 3.8% |
C000127814 Performance
Total returns for C000127814 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 39.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 4.3% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 12.8% |
C000127814 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000127814, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.7%
C000127814 Costs and Fees
C000127814 costs about $130 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.30%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.39%
- Portfolio turnover: 32%
- Brokerage commissions: 2.85 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000127814 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-09, WCM Focused Global Growth Fund had net inflows of $124.93M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | −$1.60M |
| 2024-08 | −$5.21M |
| 2024-07 | $1.00M |
| 2024-06 | −$16.58M |
| 2024-05 | $1.31M |
| 2024-04 | $1.09M |
C000127814 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in WCM Focused Global Growth Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000127814 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official WCM Focused Global Growth Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2024-05-06
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-11-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-05-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-03-15
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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.