15 important things you should know about Virtus ANJIX mutual fund

Updated: April 07, 2021

Bull Case

3-year return above the benchmark
No sales load or distribution fees

Bear Case

Low net assets
5-year return below the benchmark
10-year return below the benchmark
15-year return below the benchmark
High expense ratio

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

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

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

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

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

Fact Sheet

1. Describe Allianz Funds: AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund; Institutional Class Shares (ANJIX).

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital and income. The Fund will invest in the common stocks of non-U.S. companies with market capitalizations of more than $1 billion, that are undervalued relative to the market and their industry groups.

2. What are ANJIX top holdings?

ANJIX has 58 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 33.16% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd	005930.KS	4.31%
China Merchants Bank Co Ltd Class H	03968	4.22%
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares	09988	4.21%
Zurich Insurance Group AG	ZURN	4.10%
Broadcom Inc	AVGO	4.00%
Sony Corp	6758	2.85%
Tencent Holdings Ltd	00700	2.57%
Rio Tinto PLC	RIO.L	2.46%
Techtronic Industries Co Ltd	00669.HK	2.27%
Longfor Group Holdings Ltd	00960	2.17%

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

ANJIX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is 2.14%;
3-month return is 7.98%;
1-year return is 7.98%;
3-year return is 7.10%;
5-year return is 7.94%;
10-year return is 2.79%;
15-year return is 4.04%.

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

In the last 10 years, ANJIX had 5 up years and 5 down years.

5. What is ANJIX dividend yield?

ANJIX yield is 2.05%.

6. What is ANJIX minimum initial investment amount?

ANJIX minimum initial investment amount is $25.00K.

7. What is ANJIX expense ratio?

ANJIX expense ratio is 0.95%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

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

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

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

1-year ax cost ratio is 0.98%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 0.89%.

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

11. What is ANJIX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.36;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.47;
10-year Sharpe ratio is 0.21;
15-year Sharpe ratio is 0.24.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is 29. Our quantitative analysis shows 2 reasons to buy and 5 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 29.

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

The following are ANJIX strengths from our perspective:

ANJIX 3-year return is 7.1%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI ACWI Ex USA NR USD), 6.92%.
Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

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

The following are ANJIX weaknesses from our perspective:

ANJIX net assets are $45.20 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
ANJIX 5-year return is 7.94%, which is lower than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI ACWI Ex USA NR USD), 10.41%.
ANJIX 10-year return is 2.79%, which is lower than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI ACWI Ex USA NR USD), 4.97%.
ANJIX 15-year return is 4.04%, which is lower than the 15-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI ACWI Ex USA NR USD), 4.55%.
ANJIX expense ratio is 0.95%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?

In the ANJIX review, we covered ANJIX 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.