VFOPX — Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund
Data updated: 2024-02-28
VFOPX — Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund. Europe Mid Cap Blend / Core Industrials Equity. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
VFOPX Fund Overview
VFOPX — Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Opportunities Trust, categorised as Europe Mid Cap Blend / Core Industrials Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Virtus Opportunities Trust
- Category: Europe Mid Cap Blend / Core Industrials Equity
- Assets under management: $623.94M
- 1-year return: 15.9%
- Ticker: VFOPX
- SEC CIK: 0001005020
- SEC series ID: S000018969
- Share class ID: C000148857
VFOPX Investment Objective and Strategy
Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Virtus Opportunities Trust.
Investment objective
The fund has an investment objective of long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
This fund seeks to provide investors with access to high-quality international companies. The securities selected for inclusion in the fund are those that in the opinion of the subadviser are well-managed businesses with consistent operating histories and financial performance that have favorable long-term economic prospects and, in most cases, generate free cash flow. Over full market cycles, the investment style is designed with the objective of capturing part of the up market cycles and may offer protection in down market cycles. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the funds assets are invested in equity securities or equity-linked instruments of issuers located outside the United States, including issuers in emerging markets countries. The fund intends to diversify its investments among countries and normally to have represented in the portfolio business activities of a number of different countries.
VFOPX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Constellation Software Inc/Can | 5.54% |
| Relx PLC | 5.50% |
| Mastercard Inc | 5.10% |
| London Stock Exchange Group PL | 4.65% |
| Air Liquide SA | 4.52% |
| Experian PLC | 4.09% |
| Wolters Kluwer NV | 4.05% |
| L'Oreal SA | 4.02% |
| Sap SE | 3.61% |
| Amadeus IT Group SA | 3.50% |
VFOPX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.0% |
VFOPX Performance
Total returns for VFOPX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 15.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.9% |
VFOPX Risk Information
Risk metrics for VFOPX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 15.7%
VFOPX Costs and Fees
VFOPX costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.95%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.04%
- Portfolio turnover: 55%
- Brokerage commissions: 8.17 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
VFOPX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-12, Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund had net inflows of $329.10M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-12 | $63.07M |
| 2023-11 | $28.93M |
| 2023-10 | $28.17M |
| 2023-09 | $15.06M |
| 2023-08 | $17.94M |
| 2023-07 | $33.73M |
VFOPX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
VFOPX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Virtus Vontobel Foreign Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-01-24
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-01-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-01-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-02-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-11-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-12-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-12-14
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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.