CTVIX — Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund
Data updated: 2021-05-28
CTVIX — Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund. United States Small Cap Value Equity · $7.45M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
CTVIX Fund Overview
CTVIX — Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Mutual Fund Series Trust, categorised as United States Small 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: Mutual Fund Series Trust
- Category: United States Small Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $7.45M
- 1-year return: 27.8%
- Ticker: CTVIX
- SEC CIK: 0001355064
- SEC series ID: S000012457
- Share class ID: C000075434
CTVIX Investment Objective and Strategy
Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mutual Fund Series Trust.
Investment objective
The Funds objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in common stocks of small capitalization U.S. companies. The Fund will purchase positions in stocks that are experiencing insider buying by corporate executives, directors or large activist shareholders. Under normal conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of the Funds net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes in small-cap stocks which are defined as stocks of companies with less than $4 billion in market capitalization. The Advisor uses public information that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on corporate insider and large shareholder buying and selling activity for its investment decisions. The Advisors research and quantitative back-testing of insider trading data over long periods of time has resulted in the development of a proprietary method of analyzing insider trading activity that it believes can provide long-term capital appreciation.
The underlying thesis is that corporate insiders or large activist shareholders know more about the prospects of the company than anybody else. The Advisors investment process focuses on insider identities (position in the company), motivations, insider trading trends, trading volumes, firm size and other factors to select stocks for the portfolio. Stocks are sold when the relevant insider trading trends reverse or when portfolio positions achieve or no longer provide the targeted risk adjusted return. The Fund actively trades its portfolio investments, which may lead to higher transaction costs that may affect the Funds performance. The Fund is classified as non-diversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), which means that it is not limited by the 1940 Act with regard to the portion of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer.
CTVIX Performance
Total returns for CTVIX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 27.8% |
CTVIX Risk Information
Risk metrics for CTVIX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 30.8%
CTVIX Costs and Fees
CTVIX costs about $155 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.55%
- Gross expense ratio: 2.73%
- Portfolio turnover: 225%
- Brokerage commissions: 119.19 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
CTVIX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-03, Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund had net inflows of $2.61M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-03 | $148.63K |
| 2021-02 | $278.27K |
| 2021-01 | $461.00K |
| 2020-12 | $330.90K |
| 2020-11 | $85.17K |
| 2020-10 | $84.84K |
CTVIX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
CTVIX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Catalyst Small-Cap Insider Buying Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-10-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-11-07
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2018-11-15
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-02-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-11-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-09-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-09-13
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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.