Columbia Overseas Value Fund
Data updated: 2026-07-29
C000159974 — Columbia Overseas Value Fund. Developed ex-US Mid Cap Value Equity · $6.80B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000159974 Fund Overview
Columbia Overseas Value Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Columbia Funds Series Trust, categorised as Developed ex-US Mid Cap Value 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 Funds Series Trust
- Category: Developed ex-US Mid Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $6.80B
- 1-year return: 10.9%
- SEC CIK: 0001097519
- SEC series ID: S000021046
- Share class ID: C000159974
C000159974 Investment Objective and Strategy
Columbia Overseas Value Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Columbia Funds Series Trust.
Investment objective
Columbia Overseas Value Fund (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of total assets ( plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of foreign companies that have market capitalizations of more than $1 billion at the time of purchase. The Fund typically invests in foreign companies in at least three countries, other than the United States, at any one time and may invest in emerging markets. Under normal circumstances, the Fund also invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of value companies. The Fund considers value companies to be those companies that are either constituents of an index constructed by a third party to identify companies with various characteristics of value companies, or that have a higher book-to-price (B/P) ratio than the median ranked stock within the companys GICS sector, have a higher EBITDA/EV (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization-to-enterprise value) or have a lower price-to-earnings ratio than the median ranked stock within the companys GICS sector.
The third-party broad-based index currently used to identify value companies is the MSCI ACWI ex USA Value Index, although the Fund may change the referenced index without prior notice. The Fund may invest directly in foreign securities or indirectly through closed-end investment companies and depositary receipts. The Fund may at times emphasize one or more sectors in selecting its investments, including the financials sector. The Fund may invest in derivatives, such as forward contracts (including forward foreign currency contracts), futures (including equity futures and index futures) and options (including options on stocks and indices), for both hedging and non-hedging purposes including, for example, for investment purposes to seek to enhance returns or, in certain circumstances, when holding a derivative is deemed preferable to holding the underlying asset.
In particular, the Fund may invest in forward currency contracts to hedge the currency exposure associated with some or all of the Funds securities, to shift investment exposure from one currency to another, to shift U.S. dollar exposure to achieve a representative weighted mix of major currencies in its benchmark, or to adjust an underweight country exposure in its portfolio. The Fund may also invest in equity index futures to manage exposure to the securities market and to maintain equity market exposure while managing cash flows. The Fund has the following limits on its investments, which are applied at the time an investment is made. The Fund: normally invests no more than 5% of its total assets in a single security; typically invests up to the greater of (i) 20% of its total assets in a single country or industry or (ii) 150% of the weighting of a single country or industry in the MSCI Europe, Australasia, Far East (MSCI EAFE) Value Index (limited to less than 25% of its total assets in a single industry, other than U.S.
Government obligations); and generally may not invest more than 20% of its total assets in emerging markets.
C000159974 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Columbia Overseas Value Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Shell PLC | 3.45% |
| Banco Santander SA | 3.14% |
| TotalEnergies SE | 2.54% |
| Axa SA | 2.42% |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 2.31% |
| Piraeus Bank SA | 2.22% |
| Imperial Brands PLC | 2.12% |
| Primo Brands Corp | 2.12% |
| BPER Banca SPA | 2.11% |
| ING Groep NV | 2.09% |
C000159974 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Columbia Overseas Value Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.8% |
C000159974 Performance
Total returns for C000159974 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 10.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 7.0% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 5.9% |
C000159974 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000159974, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.4%
C000159974 Costs and Fees
C000159974 costs about $92 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.92%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.97%
- Portfolio turnover: 34%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.96 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000159974 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-05, Columbia Overseas Value Fund had net inflows of $1.79B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | $7.46M |
| 2026-04 | $181.72M |
| 2026-03 | $48.05M |
| 2026-02 | $87.90M |
| 2026-01 | $140.75M |
| 2025-12 | $388.24M |
C000159974 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Columbia Overseas Value Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000159974 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Columbia Overseas Value Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-06-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-06-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-06-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-07-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-04-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-01-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-05-06
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-05-07
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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.