15 important things you should know about Allianz Global Investors ALAIX mutual fund

Updated: April 07, 2021

Bull Case

No sales load or distribution fees

Bear Case

Low net assets

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Are you looking to buy or sell ALAIX? Or perhaps you’re looking for ALAIX fact sheet, and learn about its alternatives? If so, you came to the right place.

In this ALAIX mutual fund review, we’ll address key questions our readers have been asking us about this fund, above and beyond what you can find in its prospectus, and on Morningstar or Yahoo Finance.

Here is what you’ll be able to find in this review:

Fact Sheet: ALAIX performance, returns, expense ratio, holdings and dividend yield;
Analysis: ALAIX buy or sell; the pros and cons of investing in ALAIX mutual fund;
Alternatives: other ETFs and mutual funds you should consider as alternatives to ALAIX.

And here is the list of questions we’ll answer:

Describe Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust: AllianzGI Emerging Markets Small-Cap Fund; Institutional Class Shares (ALAIX).
What are ALAIX holdings?
What is ALAIX performance? What are ALAIX historical returns?
How many up and down years did ALAIX have historically?
What is ALAIX dividend yield?
What is ALAIX minimum initial investment amount?
What is ALAIX expense ratio?
Does ALAIX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?
What is ALAIX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?
What is ALAIX beta? How would you assess ALAIX risk?
What is ALAIX Sharpe ratio?
What is ALAIX Finny Score? ALAIX buy or sell?
What are the pros of investing in ALAIX? What are ALAIX buy reasons?
What are the cons of investing in ALAIX? What are ALAIX sell reasons?

So let’s start. Scroll down to the question that interests you the most.

Fact Sheet

1. Describe Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust: AllianzGI Emerging Markets Small-Cap Fund; Institutional Class Shares (ALAIX).

2. What are ALAIX top holdings?

ALAIX has 150 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 24.77% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Granules India Ltd	532482.BO	3.63%
Gold Fields Ltd ADR	GFI.JO	2.86%
CJ CheilJedang Corp	097950.KS	2.70%
Ipca Laboratories Ltd	524494.BO	2.63%
China National Building Material Co Ltd Class H	03323	2.23%
Sercomm Corp	5388.TW	2.20%
China Lesso Group Holdings Ltd	02128	2.19%
Bioteque Corp	4107.TW	2.14%
Kumho Petro Chemical Ltd	011780.KS	2.13%
DB HiTek Co Ltd	000990.KS	2.06%

3. What is ALAIX performance? What are ALAIX historical returns?

ALAIX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is -2.50%;
3-month return is -3.53%;
1-year return is -3.53%;
3-year return is 1.57%.

4. How many up and down years did ALAIX have historically?

In the last 10 years, ALAIX had 10 up years and 0 down years.

5. What is ALAIX dividend yield?

ALAIX yield is %.

6. What is ALAIX minimum initial investment amount?

ALAIX minimum initial investment amount is $25.00K.

7. What is ALAIX expense ratio?

ALAIX expense ratio is %. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

8. Does ALAIX have any sales loads or 12b-1 distribution expenses?

ALAIX 12b-1 distribution fee is 0. ALAIX front-end sales load is 0. ALAIX back-end sales load is 0.

9. What is ALAIX tax efficiency (tax-cost ratio)?

1-year ax cost ratio is %;
3-year ax cost ratio is %.

10. What is ALAIX beta? How would you assess ALAIX risk?

11. What is ALAIX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.10;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.38.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is N/A. Our quantitative analysis shows 1 reason to buy and 1 reason to sell. Finny Scores are not available if there are insufficient data points from the analysis.

13. What are the pros of investing in ALAIX? What are ALAIX buy reasons?

The following are ALAIX strengths from our perspective:

Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

14. What are the cons of investing in ALAIX? What are ALAIX negatives?

The following are ALAIX weaknesses from our perspective:

ALAIX net assets are $0.00 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.

In the ALAIX review, we covered ALAIX key stats (return, performance, yield, expense ratio, and holdings), buy and sell analysis, and alternative investments. If this review was helpful to you, feel free to check out other mutual fund and ETF reviews.