BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund
Data updated: 2021-07-26
C000130892 — BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund. Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity · $3.57M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000130892 Fund Overview
BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Bmo Funds, Inc., categorised as Emerging Markets 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: Bmo Funds, Inc.
- Category: Emerging Markets Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $3.57M
- 1-year return: 15.5%
- SEC CIK: 0000889366
- SEC series ID: S000042152
- Share class ID: C000130892
C000130892 Investment Objective and Strategy
BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Bmo Funds, Inc..
Investment objective
To provide capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities of companies located in the countries included, at the time of purchase, in the MSCI All Country World Index, which includes 23 developed and 24 emerging market countries. The Fund normally invests at least 40% of its net assets in securities located outside the United States and is diversified among at least three countries. The Fund may invest in companies across all market capitalizations and may at times focus its investments in one or more sectors. The Fund invests in stocks that exhibit less volatile stock price patterns when compared to stocks in the MSCI All Country World Index. The Adviser selects low volatility, undervalued stocks using a unique approach which combines the use of proprietary analytical tools and the qualitative judgments of the investment team.
The Advisers investment process begins by using tools to rank stocks based on expected risk and expected return, and construct preliminary portfolios with the use of fundamental factors. All purchases and sales of portfolio securities, however, are subjected ultimately to the investment teams qualitative judgments developed from their cumulative investment experience. The entire process is designed to focus on stock risk and company fundamentals through both quantitative and qualitative analysis to balance risk management with return generation. This strategy seeks to provide the Fund with lower downside risk and meaningful upside participation relative to the MSCI All Country World Index. In determining where a company is located, the Adviser relies on the country where the company is incorporated, but also may consider the country where the companys revenues are derived and the primary market listing for the class of shares to be purchased.
Although the Fund invests primarily in companies located in countries included in the MSCI All Country World Index, the Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in companies located in countries not represented in this Index. From time to time, the Fund maintains a portion of its assets in cash. The Fund may increase its cash holdings in response to market conditions or in the event attractive investment opportunities are not available.
C000130892 Performance
Total returns for C000130892 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 15.5% |
C000130892 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000130892, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.1%
C000130892 Costs and Fees
C000130892 costs about $85 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.85%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.45%
- Portfolio turnover: 49%
- Brokerage commissions: 11.27 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000130892 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-05, BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund had net outflows of $10.86M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-05 | −$117 |
| 2021-04 | −$39.74K |
| 2021-03 | −$1.07M |
| 2021-02 | −$40.39K |
| 2021-01 | −$22.27K |
| 2020-12 | $329.90K |
C000130892 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000130892 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official BMO Global Low Volatility Equity Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-12-23
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-01-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-04-12
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-07-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-04-05
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-01-22
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-11-10
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-11-07
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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.