AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio
Data updated: 2023-03-16
C000149255 — AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio. Developed ex-US Blend / Core Equity · $10.55M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000149255 Fund Overview
AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Advanced Series Trust, categorised as Developed ex-US 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: Advanced Series Trust
- Category: Developed ex-US Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $10.55M
- 1-year return: -14.3%
- SEC CIK: 0000814679
- SEC series ID: S000047530
- Share class ID: C000149255
C000149255 Investment Objective and Strategy
AST QMA International Core Equity 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 long-term capital appreciation.
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 equity and equity-related securities, including but not limited to common stock, preferred stock, securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock, rights, warrants, depository receipts for those securities, exchange-traded funds, futures and swaps of or relating to issuers that are: (i) located, organized or headquartered in developed market countries outside of the US or (ii) included (or scheduled for inclusion by the index provider) as developed market issuers in one or more broad-based market indices. The Portfolio employs an equity investment strategy using a quantitatively driven, bottom up investment process based on fundamental insights.
The stock selection process utilizes an adaptive model that evaluates stocks differently based on their characteristics. The Portfolios subadviser constructs a portfolio that seeks to maximize the Portfolio's investment in the most attractive stocks identified by the model subject to risk constraints.
C000149255 Performance
Total returns for C000149255 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -14.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.8% |
C000149255 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000149255, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 24.9%
C000149255 Costs and Fees
C000149255 costs about $99 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.99%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.02%
- Portfolio turnover: 85%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.65 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000149255 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2022-12, AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio had net inflows of $80.51M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2022-12 | $247.09K |
| 2022-11 | $168.08K |
| 2022-10 | $236.27K |
| 2022-09 | $172.06K |
| 2022-08 | $219.29K |
| 2022-07 | $85.32K |
C000149255 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000149255 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official AST QMA International Core Equity Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-14
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-04-15
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-05-15
- 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.