MFTOX — Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund

MFTOX Fund Overview

MFTOX — Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Northern Lights Fund 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: Northern Lights Fund Trust
• Category: Commodity
• Assets under management: $61.37M
• Ticker: MFTOX
• SEC CIK: 0001314414
• SEC series ID: S000029481
• Share class ID: C000123940

MFTOX Investment Objective and Strategy

Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Northern Lights Fund Trust.

Investment objective

The Funds primary investment objective is to achieve positive absolute returns in rising and falling equity markets.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund seeks to achieve its primary investment objective by allocating its assets using two principal strategies: Managed Futures Strategy: The Managed Futures strategy is designed to capture returns related to trends in the commodity and financial futures markets by investing directly or through the Subsidiary (as defined below) in a combination of financial instruments including, but not limited to (1) options, (2) futures, (3) forwards, (4) spot contracts or (5) swap contracts, structured notes or other securities or derivatives (collectively, financial instruments). The Fund does not invest more than 25% of its assets with any one financial instrument or counterparty or issuer. Through investments in a combination of such financial instruments, certain of which utilize notional funding (i.e., nominal trading level exceeds the cash deposited in their trading accounts) the Fund will attempt to maintain an exposure to the Managed Futures strategy as if between 100% and 125% of the Funds net assets were invested.

The Managed Futures strategy may include investment styles or sub-strategies such as (1) long term trend-following, (2) discretionary macro investing based on economic fundamentals and value, (3) short-term systematic trading, (4) specialized approaches to specific or individual market sectors such as financials, equities, currencies, metals, agricultural and soft commodities and (5) counter-trend or mean reversion strategies. Managed Futures strategy investments will be made without restriction as to issuer capitalization, country, or currency. In order to provide the Fund with exposure to certain of the above-described Managed Futures strategies that trade non-financial commodity futures contracts within the limitations of the federal tax requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), the Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in non-financial commodity futures contracts through a wholly-owned and controlled foreign subsidiary (the Subsidiary).

The Subsidiary will invest the majority of its assets in financial instruments and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for swaps or other positions, as applicable. However, the Fund may also make Managed Futures investments outside of the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary is subject to the same investment restrictions as the Fund, when viewed on a consolidated basis with the Fund. The Subsidiary and the Fund will comply with all applicable provisions of the 1940 Act on an aggregated basis. Based upon its analysis of long-term historical returns and volatility of various asset classes, the Funds adviser, Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. (the Adviser), expects that up to 25%, of Fund assets will be allocated to and used as collateral for the Managed Futures strategy. However, as market conditions change the ranges may be higher or lower.

The Adviser currently delegates management of allocated portions of the Funds Managed Futures strategy portfolio to various sub-advisers. Fixed Income Strategy: The Fixed Income strategy is designed to generate interest income and capital appreciation with the objective to diversify the returns under the Managed Futures strategy. The Fixed Income strategy will invest in a variety of investment grade fixed income securities. The Fixed Income strategy portfolio will maintain an average maturity that ranges between short-term (less than 1 year) and intermediate-term (4-7 years). The Fixed Income strategy will invest primarily in investment grade securities, which the Fund defines as those that are rated, at the time purchased, in the top four categories by a rating agency such as Moodys Investors Service, Inc.

(Moodys) or Standard & Poors Ratings Group (S&P), or, if, unrated determined to be of comparable quality. In the event that a fixed income securitys rating is downgraded below investment grade, the sub-adviser will take such actions over such reasonable period of time as it determines are prudent and in the best interests of the Client. The Adviser expects that the majority of its assets not actively invested in the Managed Futures Strategy will be allocated to the Fixed Income strategy. However, as market conditions change the range may be higher or lower. The Adviser delegates management of the Funds Fixed Income strategy portfolio to a sub-adviser. The Fund seeks to achieve its secondary investment objective primarily by (1) diversifying the Managed Futures strategy investments among asset classes and sub-strategies that are not expected to have returns that are highly correlated to each other or the equity market in general and (2) restricting Fixed Income strategy investments to short-term or medium-term interest income-generating securities that are not expected to have returns that are highly correlated to the equity market in general or the Managed Futures strategy.

Exemptive Order: The Adviser, on behalf of itself and on behalf of the Fund and other funds it advises or may advise in the future that are each a series of Northern Lights Fund Trust, was granted an exemptive order from the SEC that permits the Adviser, with Board of Trustees approval, to enter into or amend sub-advisory agreements with sub-advisers without obtaining shareholder approval. Shareholders will be notified within 90 days of the engagement of an additional sub-adviser or sub-advisers to manage a portion of the Funds portfolio.

MFTOX Costs and Fees

MFTOX costs about $193 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.93%
• Gross expense ratio: 2.34%
• Portfolio turnover: 280%
• Brokerage commissions: 2.38 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

MFTOX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2019-12, Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund had net inflows of $22.14M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

MFTOX Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

MFTOX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Altegris Managed Futures Strategy Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-11-01
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-10-31
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2017-10-20
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-02-20
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2019-11-27
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-09-13
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2018-09-13

Related Funds

Other Commodity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
• VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ)
• Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF (PDBC)
• PIMCO CommoditiesPLUS Strategy Fund (PCLAX)
• First Eagle Gold Fund (SGGDX)

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.