RYAMX — Long Short Equity Fund
Data updated: 2024-08-29
RYAMX — Long Short Equity Fund. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $16.37M AUM · 1.81% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
RYAMX Fund Overview
RYAMX — Long Short Equity Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Rydex Series Funds, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Rydex Series Funds
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $16.37M
- 1-year return: 15.5%
- Ticker: RYAMX
- SEC CIK: 0000899148
- SEC series ID: S000003686
- Share class ID: C000010315
RYAMX Investment Objective and Strategy
Long Short Equity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Rydex Series Funds.
Investment objective
The Guggenheim Long Short Equity Fund (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund pursues its objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes) in long and short positions of domestic equity securities or equity-related instruments, including swaps and other derivatives that provide long or short exposure to domestic equity securities. For purposes of determining compliance with the Funds 80% investment policy, equity-related derivatives generally will be valued based on their notional value. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by constructing portfolios that maintain long positions in instruments that provide exposure to risk factors the Advisor considers to be undervalued by the equity markets and sells short instruments that provide exposure to risk factors the Advisor considers to be overvalued by the equity markets.
The Advisor considers both market risk factors generally and risks specific to the companies in which the Fund invests. To construct the portfolios, the Advisor uses fundamentally-based, forward-looking forecasts of equity cash flows to generate return expectations for individual companies. Then, the expected returns for the universe of stocks is further evaluated using quantitative techniques to estimate the markets implied valuation of broad market risk factors as well as company-specific risks. Finally, the Advisor applies its proprietary evaluation process to buy long those stocks (or derivatives that give exposure to the stocks) that give the portfolio both the broad risk characteristics and company-specific risks that are perceived to be undervalued and sell short those stocks (or derivatives that give exposure to the stocks) with characteristics that are perceived to be overvalued.
The Fund will ordinarily hold simultaneous long and short positions in equity securities or securities markets that provide exposure up to a level equal to 300% of the Funds net assets for both the long and short positions. That level of exposure is obtained through derivatives, including swap agreements. At any point in time, the Funds portfolio may be significantly net long or net short. The Funds overall net exposure will change as market opportunities change. The Fund invests in equity securities, including small-, mid-, and large-capitalization securities, such as U.S. traded common stocks, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and other investment companies, but also may invest in derivative instruments which primarily consist of swaps on baskets of selected equity securities, futures contracts, and options on securities, futures contracts, and stock indices.
The Funds investments in derivatives enable the Fund to pursue its investment objective without investing directly in the securities of companies to which the Fund is seeking exposure. The Fund also may invest in derivatives to hedge or gain leveraged exposure to a particular industry, style or company depending on market conditions. Investments in derivative instruments, such as futures, options and swap agreements, have the economic effect of creating financial leverage in the Funds portfolio because such investments may give rise to losses that exceed the amount the Fund has invested in those instruments. Financial leverage will magnify, sometimes significantly, the Funds exposure to any increase or decrease in prices associated with a particular reference asset resulting in increased volatility in the value of the Funds portfolio.
The value of the Funds portfolio is likely to experience greater volatility over short-term periods. While such financial leverage has the potential to produce greater gains, it also may result in greater losses, which in some cases may cause the Fund to liquidate other portfolio investments at a loss to comply with limits on leverage and asset segregation requirements imposed by the Investment Company Act of 1940 or to meet redemption requests. The Funds use of derivatives and the leveraged investment exposure created by such use are expected to be significant. Certain of the Funds derivatives investments may be traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. The Fund also may enter into short sales of broad-based stock indices for hedging purposes in an effort to reduce portfolio risk or volatility.
While the Fund anticipates investing in these instruments to seek to achieve its investment objective, the extent of the Funds investment in these instruments may vary from day to day depending on a number of different factors, including price, availability, and general market conditions. On a day-to-day basis, the Fund may hold U.S. government securities, short-term, high quality (rated AA or higher) fixed income securities, money market instruments, overnight and fixed-term repurchase agreements, cash and other cash equivalents with maturities of one year or less to collateralize its derivatives positions or for defensive purposes to seek to avoid losses during adverse market conditions. The Fund also may enter into repurchase agreements with counterparties that are deemed to present acceptable credit risks.
In an effort to ensure that the Fund is fully invested on a day-to-day basis, the Fund may conduct significant trading activity at or just prior to the close of the U.S. financial markets. Because the Fund seeks to gain exposure to different industries and sectors in the economy, from time to time, the Fund may invest a significant percentage of its assets in issuers in one or more groups of industries or sectors of the economy. While the Funds sector and industry exposure is expected to vary over time, as of June 30, 2018, the Fund has significant exposure to the Consumer Discretionary Sector, Consumer Staples Sector, Energy Sector, Financials Sector, Health Care Sector, Industrials Sector, Information and Technology Sector, Materials Sector, Real Estate Sector and Utilities Sector, as each sector is defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard, a widely recognized industry classification methodology developed by MSCI, Inc.
and Standard & Poors Financial Services LLC. Also, as of June 30, 2018, the Fund's investments are concentrated ( i.e. , more than 25% of its assets) in securities issued by companies in the Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts Industry, a separate industry within the Real Estate Sector. The Fund is non-diversified and, therefore, may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer in comparison to a diversified fund.
RYAMX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Long Short Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC | 3.30% |
| Goldman Sachs International | 1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 1.42% |
| Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC | 1.29% |
| Apple Inc | 1.22% |
| Goldman Sachs International | 0.93% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 0.86% |
| United Therapeutics Corp | 0.85% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 0.84% |
| AT&T Inc | 0.83% |
RYAMX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Long Short Equity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 93.3% |
| Derivatives | 7.5% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.3% |
RYAMX Performance
Total returns for RYAMX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 15.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 6.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 7.9% |
RYAMX Risk Information
Risk metrics for RYAMX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 10.4%
RYAMX Costs and Fees
RYAMX costs about $181 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.81%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.81%
- Portfolio turnover: 394%
- Brokerage commissions: 13.77 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
RYAMX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-06, Long Short Equity Fund had net outflows of $1.58M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-06 | −$1.31M |
| 2024-05 | $122.60K |
| 2024-04 | −$84.87K |
| 2024-03 | −$110.47K |
| 2024-02 | $796.40K |
| 2024-01 | −$237.25K |
RYAMX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Long Short Equity Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
RYAMX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Long Short Equity Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-07-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-31
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-07-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-05-30
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-02-29
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-06-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-06-13
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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.