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ASFCX

Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund

Expense Ratio
2.45%
AUM
$963M
Inception
7/30/2010
1Y Return
+22.5%84th %ilevs 251 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 75% of total assets in money market and other short-term, high-quality securities, while also utilizing a variety of derivative instruments to capture exposures to U.S. and non-U.S. equity and fixed-income indices, currencies, and commodities. It concentrates at least 25% of total assets in the financial services industry and targets an annualized volatility of 17% or less, with a focus on maintaining a weighted average maturity of 120 days or less for its money market portion. The fund may also invest up to 25% of total assets in a wholly-owned subsidiary for commodity-related investments.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
ASFCX
Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund
22.5%22.5%12.9%1.46-7.4%
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ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
ASFCX
Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund
19.8%0.1%0.1%4.2%10.4%9.9%22.5%3.8%-1.4%3.6%3.4%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
2010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
ASFCX
Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund
13.1%*-0.5%-11.8%11.6%21.2%-2.2%-6.5%5.8%-13.6%8.1%12.5%2.5%34.3%-11.2%-4.3%-10.5%19.8%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
ASFCXUS
Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund
8.9%0.38**-0.32**0.28**-0.21*-0.01-0.07-0.190.24226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund Profile

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Alternatives
Region
Equity Sleeve Style
Mid Growth
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
FT Wilshire 5000 Index
Peer Group
Alts - Managed Futures/CTA (35 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
66
3Y Peer Percentile
0
Expense Ratio
2.45%
5Y Tax Drag
2.50%/yr
AUM
$963M
3Y Flow
+14.2%
Yield
1.18%
Inception
7/30/2010
Holdings (Reported)
139
Equity
2%
Derivatives
-2%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 75% of total assets in money market and other short-term, high-quality securities, while also utilizing a variety of derivative instruments to capture exposures to U.S. and non-U.S. equity and fixed-income indices, currencies, and commodities. It concentrates at least 25% of total assets in the financial services industry and targets an annualized volatility of 17% or less, with a focus on maintaining a weighted average maturity of 120 days or less for its money market portion. The fund may also invest up to 25% of total assets in a wholly-owned subsidiary for commodity-related investments.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 6/30/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Equity Size & Style Map

Based on equity exposure only (37% of total assets).

LargeMidSmall
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31%
-
-
32%
13%
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25%
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
31%
Mid
32%
Small
38%
Style
Value
13%
Core
0%
Growth
87%
ⓘ Methodology

Equity size and style definitions: Large vs. Small based on market cap, where Large > $70B, Mid $10-70B, and Small < $10B. Value vs. Growth based on percentile ranking on Traditional Value score within the fund's region and size cohort (equal thirds among its true equity-fund peers). This fund is not an equity fund, so the box describes its equity sleeve only (2% of assets): the sleeve's holdings are scored and ranked against equity funds of the same region and size cohort. The rest of the portfolio (bonds, cash, other assets) is not represented here. Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box, from stock-level classification (size on the same $70B/$10B lines; value by Traditional Value terciles across scored stocks). The dot is the average holding ranked against other funds, so dot and weights can differ at the margin. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Factor DetailsRef: Alternatives Funds

Based on equity exposure only (37% of total assets).

None of the selected metrics are scored for ASFCX — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Country Exposure

Level

Based on holdings that carry a country (37% of total assets).

71.0%
71.0%
29.0%
12.9%
8.0%
7.7%
Other0.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Sector Exposure

Level

Based on equity exposure only (37% of total assets).

73.5%
20.5%
6.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified holdings — every position we can identify, with cash and unidentified positions excluded — not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Thematic Exposure

Based on equity exposure only (37% of total assets).

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy94.0%
New Economy6.0%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)0.0%
Large ($70–500B)0.0%
Mid ($10–70B)62.5%
Small ($1–10B)24.7%
Micro (<$1B)12.9%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified equity book, renormalized so each split sums to 100% (the equity book is 2% of net assets) — they are not portfolio weights. Company size bands by holding market cap: Mega >$500B, Large $70–500B, Mid $10–70B, Small $1–10B, Micro <$1B. Old vs New Economy partitions Sparkline's 48 industries: New = technology, internet platforms and entertainment, e-commerce, payments, pharma/biotech/medtech, and renewable energy; Old = everything else. Shares are of classified holdings and sum to 100%. Size shares are of scored holdings weight. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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139 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt-
7.11
--USA
2United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt-
3.92
--USA
3MUFG Bank Ltd New York Branch-
3.84
--JPN
4United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt-
3.84
--USA
5DG Bank New York Branch-
3.29
--DEU
6United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt-
3.28
--USA
7DNB Bank Asa New York Branch-
2.96
--NOR
8Dreyfus Govt Cash Mgmt-I-
2.91
--USA
9Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ)SEB A
2.82
FinancialsNat'l & Regional BanksSWE
10Nordea Bank ABP (New York Branch)-
2.74
--FIN
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Alternatives Funds

Total Holdings139
Effective Holdings29.5
Top 10 Weight36.7%
Max Position7.1%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)76%
Top Country (of Net Assets)37%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
ASFCX
Virtus AlphaSimplex Managed Futures Strategy Fund
Peer Group
35 funds
Peer Asset Class
251 funds
YTD Return
19.77%16.01%737.46%87
1Y Return
22.52%19.31%669.49%84
3Y Return (Ann.)
-1.38%7.28%09.39%4
5Y Return (Ann.)
3.58%7.29%75.24%20
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
2.45%1.20%121.42%15
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (75 share classes across 35 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity68
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1GPMFX
GuidePath Managed Futures Strategy Fund
Alts - Managed Futures/CTA
Alts - Managed Futures/CTA
68---
2BCD
abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Longer Dated Strategy K-1 Free ETF
Commodities - Broad
Commodities - Broad
46---
3MAFIX
Abbey Capital Multi-Asset Fund
US Large Core
US Large Core
33---
4BCI
abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Strategy K-1 Free ETF
Commodities - Broad
Commodities - Broad
33---
5ABYIX
Abbey Capital Futures Strategy Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
32---
6SDCI
USCF SummerHaven Dynamic Commodity Strategy No K-1 Fund
Commodities - Broad
Commodities - Broad
29---
7VBIL
VANGUARD 0-3 MONTH TREASURY BILL ETF
Cash & Ultra-Short
Cash & Ultra-Short
29---
8FARIX
Fulcrum Diversified Absolute Return Fund
Allocation - Conservative
Allocation - Conservative
18---
9EDGH
3EDGE Dynamic Hard Assets ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
15---
10MKAM
MKAM ETF
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
15---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).