FS Managed Futures Fund
Data updated: 2024-11-29
C000234730 — FS Managed Futures Fund. Commodity · $1.80M AUM · 1.48% expense ratio · -7.1% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000234730 Fund Overview
FS Managed Futures Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Advisors' Inner Circle Fund III, 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: Advisors' Inner Circle Fund III
- Category: Commodity
- Assets under management: $1.80M
- 1-year return: -7.1%
- SEC CIK: 0001593547
- SEC series ID: S000075544
- Share class ID: C000234730
C000234730 Investment Objective and Strategy
FS Managed Futures Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Advisors' Inner Circle Fund III.
Investment objective
The FS Managed Futures Fund (the Managed Futures Fund or the Fund) seeks to provide positive absolute returns with low correlation to traditional investments.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by allocating its assets across a broad spectrum of Alternative Investment Strategies (as defined below). The Fund may provide exposure to alternative strategies across the five major asset classes (commodities, currencies, fixed income, equities and credit). The strategy will normally be implemented through rules-based strategies that typically use historical price data to determine whether to take a long, short, or cash position in a given instrument. The Adviser uses macroeconomic analysis, time-series data (which are observations obtained through repeated measurements over time), and forward-looking risk analysis to determine the Funds portfolio allocations. A rules-based strategy is a methodology based on a systematic approach. Principal strategies include momentum/trend based strategies that buy and sell securities in the same direction as the historical price movement and counter-trend/mean reversion based strategies that buy and sell securities in the opposite direction as the historical price movement.
Combining momentum and trend strategies across asset classes with mean reversion strategies is designed to allow the Fund to achieve its low correlation objective, as the Adviser believes these strategies do not have any inherent bias to be long or short. Other alternative strategies that do not rely on historical prices may also be utilized to enhance return. The Adviser expects to allocate up to 100% of the assets of the Fund among one or more alternative beta providers (Alternative Beta Providers) that offer the Fund exposure to the returns of particular investment strategies (Alternative Beta Strategies). An Alternative Beta Provider is a financial institution that serves as a counterparty to the Fund in a total return swap that offers exposure to the returns of a specified underlying asset.
In a typical total return swap transaction with an Alternative Beta Provider, the Fund agrees to pay a fixed or variable interest rate to the Alternative Beta Provider in exchange for return earned on a specified underlying asset. Alternative Beta Providers are swap counterparties, not sub-advisers. Alternative Beta Providers in particular may offer cost advantages over traditional alternative asset managers. The strategies employed by the use of Alternative Beta Providers are referred to in this Prospectus as Alternative Investment Strategies. In general, Alternative Beta Strategies seek to identify and capitalize upon market inefficiencies and market behavioral biases (or risk premia). Alternative Beta Strategies typically have less correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets than traditional investment strategies.
In this regard, when the performance of traditional markets improves, Alternative Beta Strategies my decline or improve to a greater or lesser degree. Conversely, when traditional markets decline, Alternative Beta Strategies my improve or decline to a greater or lesser degree. The Adviser may access the following strategies through Alternative Beta Strategies: ? Equity: Investing in stocks to generate returns less sensitive to market direction based on specific factors (e.g., size, quality) ? Macro: Investing in bonds, currencies, and commodities to generate risk-adjusted returns through specific factors (e.g., value, carry) ? Technical Trading: Investing across asset classes to generate uncorrelated returns-based on price trends and trading patterns (e.g., momentum, mean reversion) ? Volatility: Investing in volatility markets to profit from price inefficiencies and relative value opportunities (e.g., realized volatility vs.
implied volatility). The Fund generally seeks to obtain exposure to Alternative Investment Strategies in a cost-efficient manner, particularly as compared to private investment vehicles that have historically been used to access alternative investment strategies. Alternative Beta Strategies may include historical trend (seeking to benefit from the historical tendency of securities with certain characteristics to outperform others), carry and curve (investing in assets with high carry and selling assets with low carry), low beta (seeking to capture outperformance of assets with low beta over those with high beta), value (investing in undervalued and selling overvalued assets), volatility premium (monetizing the concept that implied volatility tends to be higher than realized volatility) and momentum strategies (which emphasize investing in securities that have better recent performance compared to other securities).
The Adviser may also manage all or a portion of the Funds assets directly. The Adviser and Alternative Beta Providers may use investment programs that are fundamentally dependent on proprietary or licensed technology through such managers use of, among other things, certain hardware, software, model-based strategies, data gathering systems, order execution, and trade allocation systems, and/or risk management systems. Generally, the Fund gains exposure to asset classes by investing in derivative instruments, including structured notes, futures contracts, futures-related instruments, forwards and swaps, including, but not limited to, equity index futures and equity swaps; bond futures and swaps; interest rate futures and swaps; commodity futures, forwards and swaps; and currencies and currency futures and forwards.
The Adviser generally expects that the Funds performance will have a low correlation to the long-term performance of the general global equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets; however, the Funds performance may correlate to the performance of any one or more of those markets over short-term periods. The Fund will not gain investment exposure to the commodities markets directly, but may do so indirectly through structured investments or in one or more Subsidiaries (as defined below). The Fund may invest in derivatives for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including, for example, seeking to enhance returns or as a substitute for a position in an underlying asset, instrument, or other reference, to increase market exposure and investment flexibility, or to obtain or reduce particular exposures.
The Fund may engage in forward foreign currency transactions for speculative purposes. The Fund may purchase or sell foreign currencies through the use of forward contracts based on the Advisers judgment regarding the direction of the market for a particular foreign currency or currencies. In pursuing this strategy, the Fund seeks to profit from anticipated movements in currency rates by establishing long and/or short positions in forward contracts on various foreign currencies. The Fund agrees to buy the currency underlying the forward contract when taking a long position and sell the currency underlying the forward contract when taking a short position. There are no geographic limits on the market exposure of the Funds assets. This flexibility allows the Adviser to look for investments or gain exposure to asset classes and markets around the world, including emerging markets, that it believes will enhance the Funds ability to meet its objective.
The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded notes (ETNs) through which the Fund can participate in the performance of one or more instruments. The Funds return is expected to be derived principally from changes in the value of securities and its portfolio is expected to consist principally of securities. The Funds strategies typically use quantitative measurements of historical prices to determine long, short, or neutral positioning. The owner of a long position in a derivative instrument will benefit from an increase in the price of the underlying instrument. The owner of a short position in an instrument will benefit from a decrease in the price of the underlying instrument. The Adviser generally expects that the Fund will have exposure in long and short positions across all five major asset classes (commodities, currencies, fixed income, equities and credit), but at any one time the Fund may allocate to one or two of the asset classes or a limited number of exposures within an asset class.
Credit indices that deliver both investment grade and high yield (sometimes referred to as junk) exposure (such as CDX IG, CDX HY, iTraxx Main, and iTraxx Crossover) may be used, but individual, single-name credit exposure will not be utilized. The duration of these indices will range from 3 years to 10 years. Government bond futures will also be utilized, with durations ranging from 3 months to 30 years. Equity indices and single name equity securities may be utilized. Individual securities are expected to have a market capitalization greater than $500 million. As a result of the Funds strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more asset classes at a time. The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act) and the rules and interpretations thereunder impose certain limitations on the Funds ability to use leverage; however, the Fund is not subject to any additional limitations on its net long and short exposures.
For more information on these and other risk factors, please see the More Information about Risk section of the prospectus. When taking into account derivative instruments and instruments with a maturity of one year or less at the time of acquisition, the Funds strategy will result in frequent portfolio trading and high portfolio turnover (typically greater than 300% per year). A significant portion of the assets of the Fund (up to 100%) may be invested directly or indirectly in money market instruments, which may include, but are not be limited to, U.S. Government securities, U.S. Government agency securities, short-term fixed income securities, overnight and/or fixed term repurchase agreements, money market mutual fund shares, and cash and cash equivalents with one year or less term to maturity.
These cash or cash equivalent holdings may serve as collateral for the positions the Fund takes and also earn income for the Fund. The Fund may pursue its investment objective and obtain exposures to some or all of the asset classes described in this prospectus by investing in other investment companies, including, for example, other open-end or closed-end investment companies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and domestic or foreign private investment vehicles, including investment companies sponsored or managed by the Adviser or its related parties. The Fund may also invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments exempt from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration (collectively, private placements). The Fund intends to make investments through one or more offshore, wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (each, a Subsidiary and collectively, the Subsidiaries) and may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiaries.
Generally, each Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures, forwards and swaps, but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the 1940 Act, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiarys derivative positions. The Fund will invest in each Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, each Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivative instruments, however, each Subsidiary will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Funds transactions in derivatives.
C000234730 Holdings
Top 1 holdings of FS Managed Futures Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Brown Brothers Harriman Sweep Interest | 101.70% |
C000234730 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of FS Managed Futures Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 101.7% |
C000234730 Performance
Total returns for C000234730 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -7.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.7% |
C000234730 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000234730, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.5%
C000234730 Costs and Fees
C000234730 costs about $148 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.48%
- Gross expense ratio: 4.99%
- Portfolio turnover: 0%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000234730 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-09, FS Managed Futures Fund had net outflows of $55.58K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | $0 |
| 2024-08 | $0 |
| 2024-07 | −$55.58K |
| 2024-06 | $0 |
| 2024-05 | $0 |
| 2024-04 | $0 |
C000234730 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in FS Managed Futures Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000234730 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official FS Managed Futures Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2023-07-18
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-09-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-11-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-05-30
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-03-15
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-03-14
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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.