MRLAX — Global Real Estate Portfolio
Data updated: 2024-11-27
MRLAX — Global Real Estate Portfolio. Global (incl. US) Real Estate · $42.43M AUM · 0.80% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
MRLAX Fund Overview
MRLAX — Global Real Estate Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund INC, categorised as Global (incl. US) Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund INC
- Category: Global (incl. US) Real Estate
- Assets under management: $42.43M
- 1-year return: 31.4%
- Ticker: MRLAX
- SEC CIK: 0000836487
- SEC series ID: S000012825
- Share class ID: C000034677
MRLAX Investment Objective and Strategy
Global Real Estate Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund INC.
Investment objective
"The Global Real Estate Portfolio (the ""Fund"") seeks to provide current income and capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund's assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) will be invested in equity securities of companies in the real estate industry, including real estate operating companies (""REOCs""), real estate investment trusts (""REITs"") and similar entities established outside the United States (""foreign real estate companies""). This policy may be changed without shareholder approval; however, you would be notified upon 60 days' notice in writing of any changes. The Fund will invest primarily in companies located in the developed countries of North America, Europe and Asia, but may also invest in emerging markets. The Fund's ""Adviser,"" Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc., and the Fund's ""Sub-Advisers,"" Morgan Stanley Investment Management Limited (""MSIM Limited"") and Morgan Stanley Investment Management Company (""MSIM Company""), actively manage the Fund using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies.
The Adviser's and Sub-Advisers' proprietary models drive the bottom-up value-driven approach for stock selection. The top-down portion seeks diversified exposure to all major asset classes with an overweighting to property markets that offer the best relative valuation. The bottom-up research process strongly influences the Adviser's and Sub-Advisers' perspective on which property markets they believe provide better relative value and growth prospects and, consequently, affects their decision to overweight or underweight a given region, sector and/or country. The Adviser and Sub-Advisers generally consider selling a portfolio holding if the holding's share price shifts to the point where the position no longer represents an attractive relative value opportunity versus the underlying value of its assets and/or growth prospects or versus other securities in the investment universe.
The Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may consider information about environmental, social and governance issues (also referred to as ESG) in its bottom-up stock selection process when making investment decisions. The Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers may engage with company management regarding corporate governance practices as well as what the Fund's Adviser and/or Sub-Advisers deem to be materially important environmental and/or social issues facing a company."
MRLAX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Global Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Welltower Inc | 6.03% |
| Equinix Inc | 5.54% |
| Prologis Inc | 4.32% |
| AvalonBay Communities Inc | 4.18% |
| Public Storage | 3.81% |
| Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.19% |
| Goodman Group | 3.14% |
| Extra Space Storage Inc | 2.71% |
| VICI Properties Inc | 2.68% |
| Realty Income Corp | 2.56% |
MRLAX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Global Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.0% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.1% |
MRLAX Performance
Total returns for MRLAX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 31.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 1.4% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 1.0% |
MRLAX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MRLAX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 17.0%
MRLAX Costs and Fees
MRLAX costs about $80 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.80%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.69%
- Portfolio turnover: 73%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.67 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MRLAX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-09, Global Real Estate Portfolio had net outflows of $1.14M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | −$134.28K |
| 2024-08 | −$448.18K |
| 2024-07 | −$213.11K |
| 2024-06 | −$360.15K |
| 2024-05 | −$90.93K |
| 2024-04 | −$231.96K |
MRLAX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Global Real Estate Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
MRLAX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Global Real Estate Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2023-12-07
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-11-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-05-29
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-03-13
- 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.