ECOLX — Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund
Data updated: 2021-04-26
ECOLX — Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund. Developed ex-US Growth Equity · $15.56M AUM · 1.22% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ECOLX Fund Overview
ECOLX — Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Investment Managers Series Trust, categorised as Developed ex-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: Investment Managers Series Trust
- Category: Developed ex-US Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $15.56M
- 1-year return: 43.1%
- Ticker: ECOLX
- SEC CIK: 0001318342
- SEC series ID: S000039553
- Share class ID: C000121982
ECOLX Investment Objective and Strategy
Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Investment Managers Series Trust.
Investment objective
"The investment objective of the Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund (the ""Eco Leaders Fund"") is to seek long term capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"Under normal market conditions, the Eco Leaders Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of ""Eco Leader"" companies, which are companies that Riverbridge Partners, LLC (the ""Advisor""), the Eco Leaders Fund's advisor, believes are transformational and ethical (i.e., companies that position themselves for sustainable market leadership, long-term growth, and capital appreciation), while demonstrating environmental stewardship, social responsibility and corporate governance best practices. The Eco Leaders Fund's investments in equity securities may include common stock, preferred stock and convertible securities. While the Eco Leaders Fund invests primarily in equity securities of U.S. issuers, it may invest in securities of foreign (i.e., non-U.S.) issuers.
The Eco Leaders Fund's investments in foreign securities are primarily comprised of U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers traded in the United States and American Depositary Receipts (""ADRs""). ADRs are receipts that represent interests in foreign securities held on deposit by U.S. banks. The Eco Leaders Fund may invest in companies of any size, including small- and mid-capitalization companies. The Eco Leaders Fund intends to invest in a portfolio of securities typically spread across many economic sectors, although from time to time, the Fund may have significant portion of its assets in one or more market sectors such as the information technology. In seeking to diversify the Eco Leaders Fund's portfolio, the Fund's advisor focuses on the portfolio's earnings catalysts rather than formal limitation of exposure to market sectors.
The advisor seeks to limit the portfolio exposure of the Eco Leaders Fund to a common earnings catalyst (e.g., consumer spending) to no more than 20% of the Fund's net assets. The Eco Leaders Fund may invest in investment grade convertible securities of any maturity. Investment grade securities are those rated at the time of acquisition Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (""Moody's""), or BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor's (""S&P""), or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (""Fitch"") or, if unrated by S&P, Moody's or Fitch, determined by the Advisor to be of comparable quality. The Advisor believes that earnings power determines the value of a franchise. The Advisor focuses on companies that it views as building their earnings power and intrinsic, or actual, values over long periods of time.
The Advisor uses a bottom-up approach that seeks to identify high quality, well-managed growth companies that demonstrate the ability to sustain strong secular earnings growth regardless of overall economic conditions. This fundamental approach includes a rigorous research and due diligence process including a thorough assessment of a company's culture and sustainable market leadership through direct interactions with a company's management team. In addition, the Advisor performs an assessment of the company through interactions with the company's management team, as well as a peer-review process that includes interactions with the company's competitors, suppliers, partners and/or customers. The Advisor believes these interactions allow for the opportunity to evaluate key aspects of the company's environmental, social and governance profiles.
In selecting the Eco Leaders Fund's investments the Advisor selects companies based on the Advisor's investment process and criteria, which includes environmental, social and governance standards."
ECOLX Performance
Total returns for ECOLX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 43.1% |
ECOLX Risk Information
Risk metrics for ECOLX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 22.4%
ECOLX Costs and Fees
ECOLX costs about $122 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.22%
- Gross expense ratio: 4.59%
- Portfolio turnover: 36%
- Brokerage commissions: 5.69 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ECOLX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-02, Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund had net inflows of $17.69M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-02 | $1.06M |
| 2021-01 | $1.83M |
| 2020-12 | $2.67M |
| 2020-11 | $1.16M |
| 2020-10 | $2.22M |
| 2020-09 | $1.30M |
ECOLX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
ECOLX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Riverbridge Eco Leaders Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-04-15
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2020-09-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-01-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-10-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-02-16
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-02-11
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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.