VGECX — Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund
Data updated: 2023-12-13
VGECX — Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund. Europe Value Equity · $6.31M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
VGECX Fund Overview
VGECX — Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Opportunities Trust, categorised as Europe Value 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 Value Equity
- Assets under management: $6.31M
- 1-year return: 3.6%
- Ticker: VGECX
- SEC CIK: 0001005020
- SEC series ID: S000025110
- Share class ID: C000074739
VGECX Investment Objective and Strategy
Virtus Vontobel Greater European 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 offer investors exposure to European market economies through well-established companies. The securities selected for inclusion in the fund are believed by the subadviser to be 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 in Europe, including issuers in emerging markets countries. Equity-linked securities are hybrid debt securities whose return is connected to an underlying equity, usually a stock.
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. In determining the location of an issuer, the subadviser primarily relies on the country where the issuer is incorporated. However, the country of risk is ultimately determined based on analysis of the following criteria: actual building address (domicile), primary exchange on which the security is traded and country in which the greatest percentage of company revenue is generated. This evaluation is conducted so as to determine that the issuers assets are exposed to the economic fortunes and risks of the designated country.
VGECX Performance
Total returns for VGECX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 3.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -11.5% |
VGECX Risk Information
Risk metrics for VGECX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 18.3%
VGECX Costs and Fees
VGECX costs about $213 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 2.13%
- Gross expense ratio: 2.88%
- Portfolio turnover: 29%
- Brokerage commissions: 5.01 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
VGECX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-09, Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund had net inflows of $3.15M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-09 | $256.21K |
| 2023-08 | $285.24K |
| 2023-07 | $115.36K |
| 2023-06 | $194.49K |
| 2023-05 | $162.85K |
| 2023-04 | $458.03K |
VGECX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
VGECX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Virtus Vontobel Greater European Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-01-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-01-27
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-12-15
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-11-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-19
- 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.