SMLRX — Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund

SMLRX Fund Overview

SMLRX — Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Schroder Series Trust, categorised as Latin America Small 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: Schroder Series Trust
• Category: Latin America Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
• Assets under management: $2.21M
• Ticker: SMLRX
• SEC CIK: 0000908802
• SEC series ID: S000050443
• Share class ID: C000159243

SMLRX Investment Objective and Strategy

Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Schroder Series Trust.

Investment objective

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

"The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing principally in a portfolio of equity securities of small cap emerging markets companies. The Fund's sub-adviser, Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd. (""SIMNA Ltd."" or the ""Sub-Adviser""), currently considers ""emerging market"" companies to be issuers listed or domiciled in, deriving a substantial portion of their revenues from, or having a substantial portion of their assets in countries represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (the ""Index"") or in any other widely-recognized index of emerging market securities. The Index includes stocks of issuers in 24 countries in regions such as Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Sub-Adviser may in the future expand that universe of emerging market countries in light of economic, market and financial developments.

The Fund invests in countries and companies that the Sub-Adviser believes offer the potential for capital appreciation. Although the Fund will typically seek to allocate its investments among a number of different emerging market countries, there is no percentage limit on the Fund's investments in any one emerging market country or geographic region; the Sub-Adviser may refer to the country allocation of the Fund's benchmark when making allocation decisions. The Fund may hedge some of its foreign currency exposure back into the U.S. dollar, although it does not normally expect to do so. The Sub-Adviser currently considers a company to be a small cap company if, at the time of purchase, its market capitalization places it among the companies that make up the bottom 30% of the total market capitalization of the emerging market universe.

Solely for purposes of determining this 30% threshold, the Sub-Adviser shall reference the market capitalization of companies included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Investable Market Index or in any other widely-recognized index of emerging market securities. The market capitalization range of the MSCI Emerging Markets Investable Market Index was $10.2 million to $337.8 billion, as of January 31, 2018, and is expected to change frequently. In selecting companies for investment by the Fund, the Sub-Adviser considers factors such as a company's potential for above average earnings growth, a security's attractive relative valuation, and whether a company has proprietary advantages. The Sub-Adviser also considers the risk of local political and/or economic instability associated with particular countries and regions and the liquidity of local markets.

The Fund generally sells securities when the Sub-Adviser believes they are fully priced or to take advantage of other investments the Sub-Adviser considers more attractive. The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of companies the Sub-Adviser considers to be ""emerging market"" small cap companies at the time of investment. This investment policy may be changed by the Fund upon 60 days' prior notice to shareholders. The Fund may invest in common and preferred stocks (or units of ordinary and preference shares), securities convertible into common and preferred stocks, warrants to purchase common and preferred stocks, index-linked warrants, and securities issued in initial public offerings (""IPOs"").

The Fund may invest in participatory notes, sponsored or unsponsored American Depositary Receipts (""ADRs""), Global Depositary Receipts (""GDRs""), European Depositary Receipts (""EDRs"") or other similar securities representing ownership of foreign securities. The Fund may invest in securities of closed-end investment companies and exchange-traded funds (""ETFs"") (open-end investment companies whose shares may be bought or sold by investors in transactions on major stock exchanges). An investment in a closed-end fund or ETF that has a policy that it will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of small cap emerging market issuers, or other funds with comparable investment policies, will be treated as an investment in equity securities of small cap emerging market issuers for purposes of determining the Fund's compliance with the 80% test described above (including in cases where the other fund's criteria for determining whether a company is a small cap emerging market company are not identical to those of the Fund).

Although the Fund does not intend to invest significantly in derivative instruments, it may use structured notes, equity-linked notes, swap transactions, index futures, and other derivatives instruments in pursuing its principal investment strategies. The notional value of the Fund's investments in derivatives that provide exposure comparable, in the judgment of the Sub-Adviser, to investments in emerging market small cap securities may be counted toward satisfaction of the 80% policy described above. The Fund may hedge some of its foreign currency exposure back into the U.S. dollar, although it does not normally expect to do so. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities in seeking to achieve its investment objective."

SMLRX Costs and Fees

SMLRX costs about $135 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.35%
• Gross expense ratio: 14.21%
• Portfolio turnover: 38%
• Brokerage commissions: 5.16 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

SMLRX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2019-10, Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund had net inflows of $0, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

SMLRX Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

SMLRX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Schroder Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-03-20
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-03-19
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2017-08-02
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2019-12-19
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-01-14
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-01-14

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.