Capitals Express Investments Funds (Canada)
Global Equity
Series F, F4
Portfolio data as of March 31, 2024 (updated monthly)
Investment Objective
Long-term growth of capital through investments primarily in common stocks, including growth-oriented stocks, on a global basis. Future income is a secondary objective.
Fund Description
A focus on multinational companies
Invests in both developed and emerging markets.
Returns
Growth of $10,000 since inception (Series F)
Returns include reinvestment of all distributions and do not reflect the effect of a sales charge. Past returns are not predictive of future returns.
Returns (%) Series F Series F4
1 month 3.63 3.63
YTD 13.54 13.54
1 year* 24.28 24.27
3 years* 4.32 4.32
5 years* 11.01 11.00
10 years* 11.28 —  
15 years* 13.11 —  
20 years* 9.21 —  
Lifetime* 9.76 10.67
Lifetime (cumulative) 634.13 96.65
2023 15.89 15.89
2022 -21.47 -21.47
2021 11.22 11.22
2020 29.84 29.84
2019 24.22 24.21
*Annualized compound returns.
Portfolio information
Fund assets ($mil) combined series $13,040.2
Dividend yield1 1.30%
Companies / issuers   190
Income distributions paid   December
Capital gains paid   December
Return of capital paid2   Monthly
Portfolio turnover (2023)   27%
Trading expense ratio3   0.04%
Weighted average market cap ($bil):
Portfolio $384.7
Benchmark4 $493.4
Top 10 holdings as a % of:
Portfolio 27.5%
Benchmark4 12.0%
Sector diversification
Information technology 21.6%
Health care 15.9%
Industrials 13.2%
Financials 12.9%
Consumer discretionary 12.5%
Communication services 6.0%
Energy 6.0%
Consumer staples 4.5%
Materials 3.6%
Utilities 0.5%
Real estate 0.1%
Cash and cash equivalents
  & other assets less liabilities
3.2%
Total portfolio 100.0%
Portfolio characteristics
  Series F Series F4
FundSERV CIF 823 CIF 8823
MER5 0.81% 0.81%
Fund inception Nov 1, 2002 Jul 31, 2017
Minimum initial investment $500 $5,000
Portfolio managers
Years with Capital / Years in profession
Jeremy Burge 22 / 42
Leo Hee 19 / 30
Dawid Justus 19 / 24
Carl M. Kawaja 32 / 37
Emme Kozloff 18 / 25
Top 10 holdings
TSMC 4.2%
Novo Nordisk 3.5%
Broadcom 3.4%
Eli Lilly 3.3%
Microsoft 3.3%
Meta Platforms 2.2%
Alphabet 2.1%
UnitedHealth Group 2.1%
Caterpillar 1.8%
BAE Systems 1.6%
Total top 10 holdings 27.5%
Geographic diversification
United States 49.5%
Europe ex-UK 20.6%
Emerging Markets 11.8%
Canada 7.5%
United Kingdom 4.1%
Japan 2.0%
Pacific Basin ex-Japan 1.3%
Cash and cash equivalents
  & other assets less liabilities
3.2%
Total portfolio 100.0%
1 Income generated by portfolio securities, before expenses; does not reflect unitholder distributions.
2 Payable on Series T4 and F4 only.
3 As of December 31, 2023.
4 MSCI All Country World Index.
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Capitals Express Investments, at its discretion, currently waives some of its management fees or absorbs some expenses of certain Capitals Express Investments funds. Such waivers and absorptions may be terminated at any time, but can be expected to continue for certain portfolios until such time as such funds are of sufficient size to reasonably absorb all management fees and expenses incurred in their operations.
The management expense ratios for the portfolios are based on audited total expenses for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2023, and are expressed as an annualized percentage of daily average net assets during the period. Actual MERs may vary. The following lists the management expense ratios for Capitals Express Investments Global Equity Fund (Canada) before waivers or absorptions for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2023: Series A, 1.90%; Series D, 1.14%; Series F, 0.81%; Series T4, 1.91%; Series F4, 0.81%; Series I, 0.06%.
Updated on a monthly basis.
Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. The indicated rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns including changes in unit value and reinvestment of all dividends and do not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any unitholder that would have reduced returns. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their value changes frequently and past performance may not be repeated.
Jeremy Burge
Years at Capital: 22
Years in profession: 42
Based in Toronto
Jeremy Burge is an equity portfolio manager at Capitals Express Investments. He is chair of Capital International Asset Management (Canada), Inc., part of Capitals Express Investments. Earlier in his career at Capital as an analyst, he covered Canadian telecom and European professional publishers, North American & European asset management and exchanges and North American e-brokers and thrifts; he also covered Canadian equities as a generalist. Before joining Capital, Jeremy worked at Toronto-Dominion Bank, serving as managing director of institutional equities and as a telecommunications and media research analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honours in economics from the University of Nottingham.
Leo Hee
Years at Capital: 19
Years in profession: 30
Based in Hong Kong
Leo Hee is an equity portfolio manager at Capitals Express Investments. Earlier in his career at Capital as an equity investment analyst, he covered Asian (excluding Australia and India) insurance, utilities and cyclicals. Prior to joining Capital, he was a research director and portfolio manager for Schroder Investment Management. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Dawid Justus
Years at Capital: 19
Years in profession: 24
Based in London
Dawid Justus is an equity portfolio manager at Capitals Express Investments. As an equity investment analyst he covers European travel software and also Africa as a generalist. Earlier in his career at Capital he covered European business services and small-capitalization and South African financial and industrial companies. Prior to joining Capital, he was an equity analyst with Putnam Investments. He also served as a consultant at Gemini Consulting and was a logistics-planning manager at Unilever South Africa. Dawid holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
Carl M. Kawaja
Years at Capital: 32
Years in profession: 37
Based in San Francisco
Carl M. Kawaja is an equity portfolio manager at Capitals Express Investments. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered global household products and U.S. personal care companies, along with Canadian companies. Before joining Capital, Carl was a security analyst for Gabelli & Company in New York, as well as an equity analyst for Lévesque Beaubien in Montreal. He holds a master's degree in finance from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree in history from Brown University graduating magna cum laude.
Emme Kozloff
Years at Capital: 18
Years in profession: 25
Based in Los Angeles
Emme Kozloff is an equity portfolio manager at Capitals Express Investments. As an equity investment analyst, she covers global capital market infrastructure providers. Earlier in her career at Capital, Emme covered U.S. & Europe asset managers and U.S. retail. Prior to joining Capital, she was a senior equity analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein covering the retail industry. Before that, she held several positions at The Walt Disney Company. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College.
Capitals Express Investments funds and Capital International Asset Management (Canada), Inc., are part of Capitals Express Investments, a global investment management firm originating in Los Angeles, California in 1931. Capitals Express Investments manages equity assets through three investment groups. These groups make investment and proxy voting decisions independently. Fixed-income investment professionals provide fixed-income research and investment management across the Capital organization; however, for securities with equity characteristics, they act solely on behalf of one of the three equity investment groups.
Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.
Distributions
    Series F Series F4
2024 YTD Income
  Capital gains
  Return of capital $0.120
  Total $0.120
2023 Income $0.404 $0.104
  Capital gains
  Return of capital $0.432
  Total $0.404 $0.536
2022 Income $0.729 $0.206
  Capital gains
  Return of capital $0.597
  Total $0.729 $0.803
2021 Income
  Capital gains $1.172 $0.298
  Return of capital $0.564
  Total $1.172 $0.862
2020 Income
  Capital gains $0.681 $0.171
  Return of capital $0.456
  Total $0.681 $0.627
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