Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund

Data updated: 2021-11-24

C000157603 — Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund. Commodity · $143.65M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000157603 Fund Overview

Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Barings Funds Trust, categorised as Commodity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

Type: US mutual fund
Manager: Barings Funds Trust
Category: Commodity
Assets under management: $143.65M
1-year return: 8.2%
SEC CIK: 0001577579
SEC series ID: S000049914
Share class ID: C000157603

C000157603 Investment Objective and Strategy

Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Barings Funds Trust.

Investment objective

Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund (Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund or the Fund) seeks to achieve maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management, through high current income generation and, where appropriate, capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund will invest in debt securities, derivatives and other instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries or countries with relatively low gross national product per capita and with the potential for rapid economic growth. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in (i) securities denominated in currencies of the emerging market countries, (ii) fixed income securities or debt instruments issued by emerging market entities or sovereign nations, and/or (iii) debt instruments denominated in or based on the currencies, interest rates, or issues of emerging market countries. Emerging market countries are defined to include any country that did not become a member of the O.E.C.D.

prior to 1975 and Turkey. Certain emerging market countries are referred to as frontier market countries. The Fund focuses its investments in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the developing countries of Europe. The Fund will invest in debt instruments of all types, including bonds, notes, U.S. and Group of Ten (commonly referred to as G10) country treasury obligations, sovereign issues, covered bonds, commercial paper and other fixed and floating rate income securities and are either secured or unsecured, and, either senior or subordinated. To a limited extent, the Fund may invest in (i) securities that are convertible into equity securities, (ii) equity securities (including warrants and common stock), (iii) certificates of deposit, (iv) bankers' acceptances, and (v) loan participations and loan assignments which are un-securitized.

The Fund expects to achieve certain exposures primarily through derivative transactions, including without limitation, forward foreign currency exchange contracts; futures on securities, indices, currencies, commodities, swaps and other investments; options; and interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps, total return swaps and credit default swaps, which may create economic leverage in the Fund. The Fund may engage in derivative transactions to enhance total return, to seek to hedge against fluctuations in securities prices, interest rates or currency exchange rates, to change the effective duration of its portfolio, to manage certain investment risks and/or as a substitute for the purchase or sale of securities, currencies or commodities. Derivatives instruments that provide exposure to debt securities that are economically tied to emerging market countries or to a country the Manager considers to be equivalent to such countries or have economic characteristics similar to such investments may be used to satisfy the Fund's 80% policy.

The Fund may invest in both investment grade and below investment grade (commonly referred to as high yield or junk bonds) debt securities. Investment grade debt securities are rated Baa3 or higher by Moody's or BBB- or higher by either S&P or Fitch, or unrated but determined to be of comparable quality by the Manager or the sub-adviser. Below investment grade debt securities are rated below Baa3 by Moody's and BBB- by S&P and Fitch or, if unrated, determined by Barings to be of comparable quality.

C000157603 Performance

Total returns for C000157603 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

Period	Total return
1 year	8.2%
3 years (annualised)	9.4%

C000157603 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000157603, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

1-year volatility (annualised): 8.3%

C000157603 Costs and Fees

C000157603 costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

Net expense ratio: 0.95%
Gross expense ratio: 1.34%
Portfolio turnover: 52%
Brokerage commissions: 0.08 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000157603 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2021-09, Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund had net inflows of $87.64M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

Month	Net flow
2021-09	$723.18K
2021-08	$6.88M
2021-07	$12.55M
2021-06	$12.85M
2021-05	$1.59M
2021-04	−$3.36M

C000157603 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000157603 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Barings Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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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.