Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund
Data updated: 2021-11-12
C000192753 — Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund. Global (incl. US) Growth Equity · $66.84M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000192753 Fund Overview
Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Unified Series Trust, categorised as Global (incl. US) 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: Unified Series Trust
- Category: Global (incl. US) Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $66.84M
- 1-year return: 62.4%
- SEC CIK: 0001199046
- SEC series ID: S000058727
- Share class ID: C000192753
C000192753 Investment Objective and Strategy
Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Unified Series Trust.
Investment objective
The investment objective of the Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) is long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing globally in equity securities of companies that Essex Investment Management Company, LLC (the Adviser) believes provide leading clean and new energy technologies, and other solutions that enable sustainability. The Adviser uses its proprietary Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS) to identify companies that are pursuing natural resource optimization and are engaged in finding energy efficiency solutions, lessening dependence on fossil fuels and limiting greenhouse gasses. The Fund invests in companies across all market capitalizations. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in companies identified by the Advisers GEOS strategy that are engaged in at least one of the following nine environmental investment themes: 1) Agricultural Productivity & Clean Fuels; 2) Clean Technology & Efficiency; 3) Efficient Transport; 4) Environmental Finance; 5) Power Technology; 6) Power Merchants & Generation; 7) Renewable Energy; 8) Low Carbon Commerce; and 9) Water.
These themes are described more fully in the Additional Information About the Funds Investment Principal Investment Strategies and Risks. The Adviser focuses the Funds investments in companies that it identifies (using its GEOS strategy) that have strong growth potential. The Adviser actively follows approximately 100 stocks out of a universe of approximately 600 eligible stocks. Eligible stocks have a market capitalization of at least $100 million and generate at least 25% of revenues from one or more of the GEOS environmental investment themes. In addition to the Advisers environmental assessment, the Adviser ranks the universe of stocks according to a number of factors including but not limited to 1) growth in revenues, earnings and free cash flow; 2) valuation; 3) balance sheet strength; and 4) capital efficiency.
The Adviser also attempts to diversify the portfolio across geographies, industries, and environmental themes. The Fund will typically hold 35-45 stocks at any given time. Equity securities in which the Fund may invest include common stocks and preferred stocks. The Fund may invest in foreign companies either directly or through American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs).
C000192753 Performance
Total returns for C000192753 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 62.4% |
C000192753 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000192753, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 24.7%
C000192753 Costs and Fees
C000192753 costs about $101 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.01%
- Gross expense ratio: 2.43%
- Portfolio turnover: 37%
- Brokerage commissions: 19.75 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000192753 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-08, Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund had net inflows of $28.55M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-08 | $330.11K |
| 2021-07 | −$3.14K |
| 2021-06 | $791.05K |
| 2021-05 | $3.98M |
| 2021-04 | −$1.20M |
| 2021-03 | $3.19M |
C000192753 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000192753 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Essex Environmental Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-12-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-01-07
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-01-04
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-10-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-07-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-04-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-11-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-11-16
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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.