MSBKX — Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio
Data updated: 2024-11-27
MSBKX — Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio. Global (incl. US) Real Estate · $5.00M AUM · 1.95% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
MSBKX Fund Overview
MSBKX — Global Focus 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: $5.00M
- 1-year return: 31.6%
- Ticker: MSBKX
- SEC CIK: 0000836487
- SEC series ID: S000072500
- Share class ID: C000228808
MSBKX Investment Objective and Strategy
Global Focus 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 Focus Real Estate Portfolio (the Fund) seeks to provide current income and long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Funds assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) will be invested in securities of companies in the real estate industry, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate operating companies (REOCs), foreign real estate companies, companies with substantial real estate-related holdings and/or services related to the real estate industry, including, but not limited to, real estate management, brokers and building products. This policy may be changed without shareholder approval; however, shareholders would be notified upon 60 days notice in writing of any changes. The Fund has a fundamental policy (i.e., one that cannot be changed without shareholder approval) of investing 25% or more of its total assets in the real estate industry.
The Fund may invest in equity securities, including common and preferred stocks, convertible securities and equity-linked securities, rights and warrants to purchase equity securities, depositary receipts including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), shares of investment companies (including those which may be managed by the Adviser or its affiliates) , limited partnership interests and other specialty securities having equity features. A company is considered to be in the real estate industry if it (i) derives at least 50% of its revenues or profits from the ownership, operation, development, construction, management, financing, leasing or sale of residential, commercial or industrial real estate and land; (ii) derives at least 50% of its revenues or profits from products or services provided or related to residential, commercial or industrial real estate and land; or (iii) has at least 50% of the fair market value of its assets invested in residential, commercial or industrial real estate and land.
The Fund will normally invest primarily in companies located in the developed countries of North America, Europe and Asia, but may also invest in companies located in emerging markets. Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically invests at least the lesser of (i) 40% of its total assets in the securities of issuers located outside of the United States or (ii) an amount of its total assets equal to the approximate percentage of issuers located outside of the United States included in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Net Total Return Index, unless the Adviser determines, in its sole discretion, that conditions are not favorable. If the Adviser determines that conditions are not favorable, the Fund may invest under 40% of its total assets in the securities of issuers located outside of the United States, provided that the Fund will not invest less than 30% of its total assets in such securities except for temporary defensive purposes.
In addition, under normal market conditions, the Fund invests in the securities of issuers from at least three different countries, which may include the United States. The Adviser actively manages the Fund using a disciplined, bottom-up, fundamentally-driven investment methodology. The Fund will invest in those securities for which the Adviser determines to have the best forward total return potential based upon relative valuation. The Adviser will assess real estate specific factors, broader equity factors, as well as environmental, social and governance factors (also referred to as ESG) in its fundamental analysis in order to calculate appropriate valuation metrics. Top-down considerations are incorporated into the portfolio construction process, and the Adviser seeks to achieve exposure across regions, countries and/or sectors and integrate forecasted fundamental inflections, macroeconomic considerations, geopolitical and country risk assessments, among other factors.
The Adviser actively selects positions in a limited number of equity securities. The Adviser generally considers selling a portfolio holding based upon the relative valuation ranking of securities in the investment universe. The Fund may invest without limit in all types of REITs, including timber REITs, tower REITs and other REITs. The Fund also may invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs). When deemed by the Adviser to be relevant to its evaluation of a companys financial performance and when applicable information is available, the Adviser considers financially material ESG issues which may impact the prospects of an issuer or long-term stock price performance of a company. When considered, one or more ESG issues are taken into account alongside other factors in the investment decision-making process and are not the sole determinant of whether an investment can be made or will remain in the Funds portfolio.
MSBKX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| American Tower Corp | 8.80% |
| Equinix Inc | 5.47% |
| Welltower Inc | 5.33% |
| AvalonBay Communities Inc | 4.57% |
| Public Storage | 4.29% |
| Agree Realty Corp | 3.86% |
| Goodman Group | 3.05% |
| Digital Realty Trust Inc | 2.72% |
| Prologis Inc | 2.37% |
| Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc | 2.24% |
MSBKX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.2% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.4% |
MSBKX Performance
Total returns for MSBKX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 31.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.3% |
MSBKX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MSBKX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 16.7%
MSBKX Costs and Fees
MSBKX costs about $195 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.95%
- Gross expense ratio: 36.96%
- Portfolio turnover: 95%
- Brokerage commissions: 9.72 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MSBKX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-09, Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio had net inflows of $168.62K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | $34.13K |
| 2024-08 | $13.52K |
| 2024-07 | $37.11K |
| 2024-06 | $0 |
| 2024-05 | $0 |
| 2024-04 | $31.57K |
MSBKX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Global Focus Real Estate Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
MSBKX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Global Focus 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.