Investing in International Stock Mutual fund is one of the easiest ways to diversify in stock or equity investment. World Stock fund usually consist of investment in developed countries (USA, Canada, German, UK, Japan, France, Australia), developing countries (Indonesia, Africa, etc), emerging markets (Brazil, China, Russia, India), and many more. This means investing in world stock fund can provide instant diversification to your investment portfolio. One of these best rated world stock funds (i.e. top fund) can be found below.
Mutual Quest A (MUTF: TEQIX)
As part of Franklin Templeton Investment Funds, the Mutual Quest fund objective is to provide capital appreciation and to provide income as a secondary objective. This Franklin Templeton fund mainly invests in undervalue equity securities of U.S. and foreign companies. These undervalue companies are selected by the manager who believes the companies are available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value). This best rated fund invests the equity portion of their portfolio predominantly in mid- and large-cap companies, with the remaining portion in smaller companies. The fund expects to invest majority of assets (<50%) in foreign securities.
TEQIX Fund Details
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| Mutual Quest fund details |
- Fund Inception Date: November 1996
- Ticker Symbol: TEQIX (class A)
- CUSIP: 628380800
- Beta (3yr): 0.46
- Rank in category (YTD): 51
- Category: World Stock
- Distribution: 2.03%
- Distribution Frequency: Semi annually
- Capital Gains: If any, is distributed every September
- Number of Years Up: 12 years
- Number of Years Down: 2 years
- Total Net Assets: $5.5 billion
- P/E Ratio: 12.67
- P/B Ratio: 1.48
updated on July 22, 2011
According to its fund’s prospectus, this fund uses the following strategies to invest in this fund:
- This fund will focus on recognizing value that other investors might ignore.
- The fund will try to deliver solid, risk-adjusted returns, year over year during the long term period. The Mutual Series' consistent, deep-value approach has benefited shareholders with long-term investment horizons for the past 30 years and more.
- The fund will use the Opportunistic Value Investors approach.
- It will try to think and act like company owners when investing.
- The fund will try to reduce risk of its asset investment.
This Franklin Templeton fund has returned 12.35% over the past one year and 6.06% over the past ten years. The best performance of this fund was achieved in 2003 with total 1-year return of 29.99%. The 5-year average return of this fund is 4.91%. It has 12 years with positive performance and 2 years with negative return. TEQIX has a 3-stars Morningstar rating.
The other classes of this top international equity fund are Class B (Ticker: TEBQX), Class C (Ticker: TEMQX), Class R and Class Z (Ticker: MQIFX). As of May 2011, this TEQIX fund has 199 total holdings.
As of May 2011, the asset mix of this TEQIX fund is 83.0% in stocks, 11.0% in bonds and 6.0% in cash. The top 5 industry breakdown of this fund is 12.40% in Food, Beverage & Tobacco, 7.30% in Utilities, 6.70% in Insurance, 6.10% in Banks and 6.00% in Telecommunication Services. The top ten holdings of this fund represent 19.90% of total net assets. They are British American Tobacco PLC (2.2%), National Semiconductor Corp (2.10%), Altria Group Inc (2.00%), British Sky Broadcasting Group (2.0%), A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S (2.0%), White Mountains Insurance Group Inc (2.0%), Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (1.9%), GDF Suez (1.9%), Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (1.9%) and Time Warner Cable Inc (1.9%).
Investing in this world stock fund involves risk such as market risk, foreign securities risk, small and mid sizes companies risk, value style risk, etc.
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