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MDCEX

Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy

Expense Ratio
3.20%
AUM
$75M
Inception
11/1/2012
1Y Return
+7.7%39th %ilevs 1,365 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in discounted closed-end funds that trade at substantial discounts relative to their underlying net asset values, which can include both equity and fixed income securities. It typically holds a diversified portfolio of approximately 30 to 90 unaffiliated closed-end funds, utilizing a proprietary research process to identify those most likely to see their discounts narrow. The fund may also invest in cash, cash equivalents, and foreign securities, including those listed in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
MDCEX
Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy
7.7%7.7%12.1%0.32-9.3%
ⓘ Methodology

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
MDCEX
Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy
5.8%-1.1%-0.5%-3.0%-0.7%9.5%7.7%17.2%21.2%12.9%9.6%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
MDCEX
Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy
-0.3%*5.9%9.0%-6.9%16.1%20.7%-9.4%26.0%-6.1%23.1%-6.6%23.9%15.0%28.1%5.8%
ⓘ 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
MDCEXGlobal Dev
Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy
-2.7%0.84**-0.03-0.10-0.020.15*0.05-0.030.75226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Global Dev 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). Fama-French publishes daily factors for developed markets only, so Dev Ex-US is developed markets excluding the US and Global Dev is developed markets including it; emerging markets, a small share of world market capitalization, are not covered by the source data. 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
Asset Allocation
Region
Equity Sleeve Style
Large Core
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
Morningstar Global Allocation Index
Peer Group
Allocation - Aggressive (327 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
23
3Y Peer Percentile
94
Expense Ratio
3.20%
5Y Tax Drag
4.98%/yr
AUM
$75M
3Y Flow
+145.1%
Yield
6.50%
Inception
11/1/2012
Holdings (Reported)
2,267
Turnover
31%
Equity
71%
Derivatives
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in discounted closed-end funds that trade at substantial discounts relative to their underlying net asset values, which can include both equity and fixed income securities. It typically holds a diversified portfolio of approximately 30 to 90 unaffiliated closed-end funds, utilizing a proprietary research process to identify those most likely to see their discounts narrow. The fund may also invest in cash, cash equivalents, and foreign securities, including those listed in Canada and the United Kingdom.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (6/8/2026). 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 (39% of total assets).

LargeMidSmall
12%
23%
25%
6%
7%
7%
5%
8%
7%
Large
ValueCoreGrowth
Size
Large
60%
Mid
20%
Small
20%
Style
Value
22%
Core
38%
Growth
39%
ⓘ 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 (71% 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: Asset Allocation Funds

Based on equity exposure only (39% of total assets).

None of the selected metrics are scored for MDCEX — 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 (Asset Allocation 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.

Asset Class Exposure

Equity72.0%
Fixed Income13.5%
Cash & Short-Term10.1%
Alternatives2.7%
Other1.7%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Holdings that are themselves funds are looked through one level to their own mix (68% of the book). Cash & Short-Term includes 0.4% of net assets the filing does not itemise. Other is everything we could not name as an asset class: holdings the filing itself labels as other, derivative positions at the market value the filing reports rather than at notional, and funds held inside this fund whose own holdings we could not read (0.7% here). Alternatives holds funds counted by what they are rather than by what they hold - alternative strategies, and funds that are short. A pie cannot draw a negative, and adding a hedge to the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class.

Country Exposure

Level
59.3%
48.2%
15.8%
1.9%
30.0%
7.2%
6.2%
5.5%
5.0%
Other6.0%
10.7%
1.9%
1.6%
1.2%
Other6.1%
ⓘ 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 (39% of total assets).

Technology35.4%
Financials19.9%
Industrials15.1%
Consumer Discretionary8.2%
Materials6.4%
Communication5.0%
Healthcare3.6%
Consumer Staples2.5%
Real Estate1.7%
Energy1.6%
Utilities0.6%
ⓘ 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 (39% of total assets).

Old vs New Economy

Old Economy54.0%
New Economy46.0%

China Exposure

China/HK Domiciled6.9%
Revenue & Operations6.2%
Operations Only8.9%
Revenue Only5.3%
No Material Exposure72.7%

Company Size

Mega (>$500B)25.1%
Large ($70–500B)21.6%
Mid ($10–70B)34.2%
Small ($1–10B)17.6%
Micro (<$1B)1.4%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the fund's classified equity book, renormalized so each split sums to 100% (the equity book is 71% of net assets) — they are not portfolio weights. China exposure: domiciled = incorporated in China or Hong Kong, falling back to the filing's country for holdings outside the stock model. Among the rest, revenue = ≥15% of revenue derived from China; operations = ≥3% of LinkedIn-tracked workforce in China, or ≥2 identified Chinese suppliers making up ≥12% of those identified. China revenue is estimated where segment reporting is absent. 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%. China shares are of total equity weight. 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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30 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 67.3% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %Country
1Fidelity Investments-
7.26
USA
2Tetragon Financial-
6.56
GG
3NexPoint Diversified-
6.22
USA
4Taiwan Fund Inc/TheTWN
5.99
USA
5The Korea FundKF
5.00
USA
6Pershing Square Hold-
4.06
GG
7The FS CreditFSCO
3.73
USA
8Highland Income Fund-
3.61
USA
9SRH Total ReturnSTEW
3.58
USA
10Royce Global ValueRGT
3.57
USA
ⓘ 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. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Asset Allocation Funds

Total Holdings2,267
Effective Holdings24.7
Top 10 Weight49.6%
Max Position7.3%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)99%
Top Country (of Net Assets)84%
ⓘ 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 (Asset Allocation Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
MDCEX
Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy
Peer Group
327 funds
Peer Asset Class
1,365 funds
YTD Return
5.77%8.65%227.49%38
1Y Return
7.65%11.06%239.48%39
3Y Return (Ann.)
21.18%15.40%9414.21%95
5Y Return (Ann.)
12.94%7.12%986.38%99
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
3.20%0.94%10.80%1
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (945 share classes across 327 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 Similarity39
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1MCTOX
Modern Capital Tactical Income Fund
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
39----
2CCEF
Calamos CEF Income & Arbitrage ETF
Alts - Event-Driven & Arbitrage
Alts - Event-Driven & Arbitrage
33----
3GAL
State Street(R) Global Allocation ETF
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
31----
4CEFS
Saba Closed-End Funds ETF
Allocation - Aggressive
Allocation - Aggressive
30----
5MDFIX
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
23----
6QMLFX
Quantified Market Leaders Fund
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic
23----
7FHASX
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2035 Fund
Target Date 2030 & 2035
Target Date 2030 & 2035
23----
8FATHX
Fidelity Advisor Freedom 2035 Fund
Target Date 2030 & 2035
Target Date 2030 & 2035
23----
9PCEF
Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
23----
10FFTHX
Fidelity Freedom 2035 Fund
Target Date 2030 & 2035
Target Date 2030 & 2035
23----

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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). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.