U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund

$580.48
NAV
-$1.35 / -0.23%
$6.7M
Fund assets
25.81%
Year-to-date return
4/1/2008
Fund inception date
Data as of 12/10/2024
Fund overview
Investing on the right side of change
The U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by principally investing in 30 to 40 U.S. large-capitalisation companies

Seeks to deliver long-term capital appreciation using a surround-the-company approach in order to identify companies with potential for capital growth, improving sales, effective management and a competitive advantage

Key differentiators

  • Identifies companies on the “right side of change” using a non-formulaic approach to idea generation
  • Assesses each holding for attractive risk and return to avoid excessive valuations
  • Constructs portfolios to balance risk across core holdings, developing situations, and valuation opportunities

General facts

ISIN

LU0354030511

SEDOL

B4Q1PV0

Bloomberg

WFUSLCI LX

SFDR classification

6

Minimum investment

$1,000,000

Share class launch date

4/1/2008

Annual management fee

0.70%

Total expense ratio (TER)

0.90%

(as of 8/31/2023)

Benchmark name

Russell 1000® Growth Index

Settlement

T+2

Quick resources

Morningstar Rating™

Out of 796 funds, US Large-Cap Growth Equity As of 10/31/2024

Performance

Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Calendar year

Calendar year

(as of 12/31/2023)
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Fund
36.95
-33.83
19.08
35.90
38.06
2.74
34.89
-0.81
4.86
6.06
Benchmark
42.68
-29.14
27.60
38.49
36.39
-1.51
30.21
7.08
5.67
13.05
Average annual returns

Average annual returns

(as of 10/31/2024)
4/1/2008
1M
3M
YTD
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Inception
Fund
-0.90
5.68
17.28
36.44
0.97
12.77
13.29
10.72
Russell 1000® Growth Index
-0.33
4.63
24.14
43.77
8.84
19.00
16.18
13.64
Expenses (as of 8/31/2023)
Annual management fee
0.70 %
Total expense ratio (TER)
0.90 %

The ongoing charges/total expense ratio (TER) reflects annual total operating expenses for the class, excludes transaction costs and is expressed as a percentage of net asset value. The figure shown is from current KID. The investment manager has committed to reimburse the Sub-Fund when the ongoing charges exceed the agreed upon TER. Ongoing charges may vary over time.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. Performance calculations are net of all applicable fees and are calculated on a NAV-to-NAV basis (with income re-invested). Performance shown is for class and currency indicated and returns may increase/decrease as a result of currency fluctuations. 

Please keep in mind that high double-digit returns were primarily achieved during favorable market conditions. You should not expect that such favorable returns can be consistently achieved. A fund's performance, especially for short time periods, should not be the sole factor in making your investment decision.

Cumulative

Cumulative

(as of 10/31/2024)

This chart shows the value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment in the fund over the specified time period up to 10 years or since its inception (for funds lacking 10-year records). The result is compared with benchmarks, which may include a broad-based market index and a peer group average or index. Market indexes do not include expenses, which are deducted from fund returns as well as mutual fund averages and indexes.

Does not include sales charges and assumes reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.

Performance and volatility metrics

Performance and volatility metrics

(as of 10/31/2024)
3 Year 5 Year 10 Year
Alpha -7.19 -4.58 -18.54
Beta 0.98 0.95 0.96
Sharpe Ratio -0.14 0.51 0.68
Standard Deviation 20.49 20.26 17.05
R2 0.92 0.93 0.92
Information Ratio -1.30 -1.11 -0.59
Upside Market Capture Ratio 74.25 72.63 76.75
Downside Market Capture Ratio 104.09 100.04 100.00
Tracking Error 6.07 5.60 4.91
Correlation 0.96 0.96 0.96
Treynor Ratio -0.03 0.11 0.12
Morningstar ratings and rankings

Morningstar ratings and rankings

(as of 10/31/2024)
Overall
US Large-Cap Growth Equity (Out of 796 funds)
Three Year
76th percentile (584 out of 796)
Five Year
62nd percentile (384 out of 624)
Ten Year
34th percentile (116 out of 370)

For illustrative purposes only. Ratings and awards are not an indication, promise, or guarantee of future performance. Ratings and awards should not be relied upon when making an investment decision. The Overall Morningstar Rating™ is a weighted average of the 3-, 5-, and 10-year (if applicable) ratings and is based on risk-adjusted return. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The Morningstar absolute ranking is based on the fund’s total return rank relative to all funds that have the same category for the same time period. Morningstar rankings do not include the effect of sales charges. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Prices and distributions

Historical prices

YTD high $590.55 12/4/2024
YTD low $449.93 1/7/2024
52-week high $590.55 12/4/2024
52-week low $449.93 1/7/2024
2023 high $462.44 12/28/2023
2023 low $325.42 1/5/2023
Best quarterly return 26.41% 6/30/2020
Worst quarterly return -24.64% 6/30/2022
Best annual return 40.94% 12/31/2013
Worst annual return -33.83% 12/31/2022

Composition

Portfolio statistics

Portfolio statistics

(as of 10/31/2024)
Fund Benchmark
Number of Holdings 38 394

Stylebox

(as of 10/31/2024) Overview chart

Placement within the Morningstar Equity Style Box is based on two variables: relative median market capitalization and relative price valuations (price/book and price/earnings) of the fund’s portfolio holdings. These numbers are drawn from the fund’s portfolio holdings figures most recently entered into Morningstar’s database and the corresponding market conditions. The Ownership Zone is represented by a shaded area surrounding the centroid. This zone encompasses 75% of a portfolio’s holdings on an asset-weighted basis and is designed to be a visual measure of how wide-ranging the portfolio is.

Holdings

Top 10 holdings

(as of 11/30/2024)
Security
Fund
Microsoft Corporation
8.77%
Amazon.com, Inc.
8.08%
Apple Inc.
7.69%
NVIDIA Corporation
6.98%
Meta Platforms Inc Class A
6.21%
Visa Inc. Class A
3.77%
ServiceNow, Inc.
3.07%
Salesforce, Inc.
2.97%
Alphabet Inc. Class A
2.94%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
2.83%
Top 10 represents 53.31% of total net assets

Based on ending weights as of month-end. Source: FactSet. The information shown is not intended to be, nor should it be construed to be, a recommendation to buy or sell an individual security.

Sector allocation

Sector allocation

(as of 10/31/2024)
Type
Fund
Benchmark
Information technology
43.98% 48.66%
Consumer discretionary
14.05% 14.09%
Communication services
12.96% 13.16%
Health care
11.12% 7.47%
Financials
9.53% 6.57%
Industrials
6.61% 4.63%
Materials
1.75% 0.65%
Utilities
0.00% 0.23%
Real estate
0.00% 0.56%
Other
0.00% 0.03%
Energy
0.00% 0.44%
Consumer staples
0.00% 3.51%

Based on ending weights as of month-end. Source: FactSet. Percent total may not add to 100% due to rounding.

ESG data summary

MSCI Overall ESG Score 1
Portfolio
6.6
Index
6.8
Sustainalytics ESG Risk Score 2
Portfolio
19
Index
19
SFDR Rating
 
6

Product involvement 3

Portfolio Benchmark
Controversial Weapons exposure 0.00% 0.27%
Oil Sands exposure 0.00% 0.00%
Small Arms exposure 0.00% 0.00%
Thermal Coal exposure 0.00% 0.00%
Tobacco exposure 0.00% 0.05%
UN Global Compact non-compliant exposure 0.00% 0.14%

¹ Data is sourced from MSCI ESG Research where companies are rated on a scale of 0 – 10 (0 - worst, 10 - best). Weighted average scores exclude effects of unrated securities.

² ESG Risk Ratings measure exposure to and management of ESG risks. Lower risk scores reflect less ESG risk. Sustainalytics ESG Risk Scores measure ESG risks on a scale of 0 – 100 (0 - no ESG Risk, >40 - Severe ESG Risk).

³ Carbon emissions includes operational and first-tier supply chain greenhouse gas emissions. Data sourced from S&P Trucost Limited.

⁴ Source: Allspring Global Investments. This report contains information developed by Sustainalytics. Such information and data are proprietary of Sustainalytics and/or its third-party suppliers (Third Party Data) and are provided for informational purposes only. They do not constitute an endorsement of any product or project, nor an investment advice and are not warranted to be complete, timely, accurate or suitable for a particular purpose. Their use is subject to conditions available at https://www.sustainalytics.com/legal-disclaimers. Copyright © 2023 Sustainalytics. All rights reserved.

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The team seeks a style-pure dedication to growth, targeting consistency of returns and focusing on fundamental, bottom-up, all-cap research to identify businesses with sustainable growth.

Key risks

Geographic concentration risk: Investments concentrated in specific geographic regions and markets may be subject to greater volatility due to economic downturns and other factors affecting the specific geographic regions.

Equity securities risk: These securities fluctuate in value and price in response to factors impacting the issuer of the security as well as general market, economic and political conditions.

ESG risk: Applying an ESG screen for security selection may result in lost opportunity in a security or industry resulting in possible underperformance relative to peers, ESG screens are dependent on third party data and errors in the data may result in the incorrect inclusion or exclusion of a security.

Global investment risk: Securities of certain jurisdictions may experience more rapid and extreme changes in value and may be affected by uncertainties such as international political developments, currency fluctuations and other developments in the laws and regulations of countries in which an investment may be made.

Issuer non-diversification risk: Focusing investments in a small number of countries, issuers or local currencies increases risk that a single negative financial, economic, market, political or regulatory occurrence has a greater impact on the value of securities.

Sector emphasis risk: Investing a substantial portion of assets in related industries or sectors may have greater risks because companies in these sectors may share common characteristics and may react similarly to market developments.

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The ongoing charges/total expense ratio (TER) reflects annual total operating expenses for the class, excludes transaction costs and is expressed as a percentage of net asset value. The figure shown is from current KID. The investment manager has committed to reimburse the Sub-Fund when the ongoing charges exceed the agreed upon TER. Ongoing charges may vary over time.
 

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†While the Sub-Funds listed above have access to both internal and external ESG research and integrate financially material sustainability risks into their investment decision-making processes, ESG-related factors are considered but not determinative, permitting the relevant Sub-Investment Managers to invest in issuers that do not embrace ESG; as such, sustainability risks may have a more material impact on the value of the Sub-Fund’s investments in the medium to long term. The investments underlying these Sub-Funds do not take into account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
 

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