MUSRX — US Real Estate Portfolio

Data updated: 2024-11-27

MUSRX — US Real Estate Portfolio. United States Real Estate · $266.86M AUM · 0.80% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

MUSRX Fund Overview

MUSRX — US Real Estate Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Morgan Stanley Variable Insurance Fund Inc., categorised as United States 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 Variable Insurance Fund Inc.
  • Category: United States Real Estate
  • Assets under management: $266.86M
  • 1-year return: 32.5%
  • Ticker: MUSRX
  • SEC CIK: 0001011378
  • SEC series ID: S000004172
  • Share class ID: C000011749

MUSRX Investment Objective and Strategy

US Real Estate Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Morgan Stanley Variable Insurance Fund Inc..

Investment objective

The Fund seeks to provide above average current income and long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of companies in the U.S. real estate industry, including real estate investment trusts.

Principal investment strategy

"The Adviser seeks a combination of above average current income and long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of companies in the U.S. real estate industry, including real estate investment trusts (""REITs""). The Fund focuses on REITs as well as real estate operating companies (""REOCs"") that invest in a variety of property types and regions. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Fund's assets will be invested in equity securities of companies in the U.S. real estate industry. This policy may be changed without shareholder approval; however, you would be notified in writing of any changes. The Adviser actively manages the Fund using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies. 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 Adviser's proprietary models drive the bottom-up value-driven approach for stock selection. The bottom-up research process strongly influences the Adviser's perspective on which property markets it believes provide better relative value and growth prospects and, consequently, affects its decision to overweight or underweight a given property market. The Fund's Adviser 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 may engage with company management regarding corporate governance practices as well as what the Fund's Adviser deems to be materially important environmental and/or social issues facing a company. The Adviser generally considers 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 universe."

MUSRX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of US Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

Holding% of net assets
Equinix Inc9.11%
Welltower Inc8.78%
Prologis Inc7.28%
AvalonBay Communities Inc5.60%
Public Storage5.06%
Realty Income Corp4.89%
Digital Realty Trust Inc4.75%
Extra Space Storage Inc4.54%
Simon Property Group Inc4.10%
VICI Properties Inc3.93%

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MUSRX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of US Real Estate Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

Asset classAllocation
Equity99.4%
Cash & Equivalents0.5%

MUSRX Performance

Total returns for MUSRX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

PeriodTotal return
1 year32.5%
3 years (annualised)3.7%
5 years (annualised)2.7%

MUSRX Risk Information

Risk metrics for MUSRX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

  • 1-year volatility (annualised): 17.2%

MUSRX Costs and Fees

MUSRX costs about $80 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

  • Net expense ratio: 0.80%
  • Gross expense ratio: 0.86%
  • Portfolio turnover: 56%
  • Brokerage commissions: 6.14 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

MUSRX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2024-09, US Real Estate Portfolio had net outflows of $31.87M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

MonthNet flow
2024-09−$5.82M
2024-08−$14.94M
2024-07$2.89M
2024-06−$2.56M
2024-05−$1.35M
2024-04$1.04M

MUSRX Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in US Real Estate Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

MUSRX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official US Real Estate Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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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.