Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund
Data updated: 2021-11-24
C000201598 — Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Commodity · $12.58M AUM · 1.90% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000201598 Fund Overview
Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity 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: $12.58M
- 1-year return: 8.7%
- SEC CIK: 0001577579
- SEC series ID: S000062255
- Share class ID: C000201598
C000201598 Investment Objective and Strategy
Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Barings Funds Trust.
Investment objective
Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund (Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund or the Fund) seeks to achieve long-term capital growth.
Principal investment strategy
"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 equity and equity-related securities of issuers that are economically tied to one or more emerging market countries. In general, countries may be considered emerging markets if they are included in any one of the Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI) emerging markets indices. For purposes of the 80% policy discussed above, a determination that an issuer is economically tied to an emerging market country is based on factors including, but not limited to, whether the issuer is incorporated or listed in one or more emerging market countries, has a significant proportion of its assets or other interests in one or more emerging market countries, or carries on its principal business in or from one or more emerging market countries.
The Fund may include exchange-traded funds (""ETFs"") that provide exposure to certain emerging markets for purposes of its 80% policy. The Fund may invest in all types of securities, many of which will be denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The securities may be listed on a U.S. or non-U.S. stock exchange or traded in U.S. or non-U.S. over-the-counter markets. In addition to common stocks, the Fund may also invest in other types of equity securities, such as depositary receipts (including American Depositary Receipts and Global Depositary Receipts), ETFs and participation rights. The Fund may also invest in fixed income securities and cash. The Fund may invest in different regions, countries, industries and sectors. Under normal market conditions, the Fund allocates its assets among various regions and countries (but in no less than three different countries).
The Fund may invest without limit in Russia and China. The Fund may invest directly or indirectly in China through China A-Shares or China B-Shares. The Fund anticipates obtaining its exposure to China through direct investment in China A-Shares listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange via Stock Connect and through indirect exposure to China B-Shares via participation notes. In selecting investments for the Fund, the Fund's sub-adviser, Baring International Investment Limited, evaluates investment opportunities on a company-by-company basis. This approach includes seeking to identify growth potential unrecognized by market participants through the analysis of factors such as the company's future financial performance, business model and management style, while incorporating wider economic and social trends.
The sub-adviser monitors individual issuers for changes in the factors above, which may trigger a decision to sell a security. These factors may vary in particular cases and may change over time. The Fund has the flexibility to achieve certain exposures through derivative transactions, including without limitation, forward foreign currency exchange contracts; futures on securities, indices, currencies, commodities, swaps and other investments; options; participation notes; 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 equity securities that are economically tied to emerging market countries or to a country the sub-adviser 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 is a non-diversified investment company, which means that it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers than may investment companies that are diversified. Accordingly, the Fund is more susceptible to risks associated with a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence than a diversified fund might be."
C000201598 Performance
Total returns for C000201598 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 8.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 6.2% |
C000201598 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000201598, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 13.3%
C000201598 Costs and Fees
C000201598 costs about $190 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.90%
- Gross expense ratio: 7.30%
- Portfolio turnover: 37%
- Brokerage commissions: 4.80 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000201598 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-09, Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund had net inflows of $179.70K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-09 | $75.00K |
| 2021-08 | $29.50K |
| 2021-07 | $699 |
| 2021-06 | $0 |
| 2021-05 | $0 |
| 2021-04 | $74.50K |
C000201598 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000201598 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Barings Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-10-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-10-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2020-11-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-11-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-08-19
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-05-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-09-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-09-11
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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.