15 important things you should know about Artisan ARTZX mutual fund

Updated: September 09, 2020

Bull Case

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

Bear Case

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fact Sheet

1. Describe Artisan Partners Funds, Inc: Artisan Emerging Markets Fund; Investor Class Shares (ARTZX).

The Fund seeks maximum long-term capital growth. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests no less than 80% of its net assets in equity securities of foreign companies domiciled, headquartered, or whose primary business activities or principal trading markets are located in emerging markets.

2. What are ARTZX top holdings?

ARTZX has 69 stock holdings and 0 bond holdings.

The top 10 holdings represent 41.29% of total assets. Here are the top holdings:

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR	BABA	9.15%
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd	005930.KS	7.26%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd	2330.TW	7.19%
Prosus NV Ordinary Shares - Class N	PRX	3.30%
Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd	01177.HK	2.78%
Reliance Industries Ltd	RELIANCE.B	2.60%
Polyus PJSC ADR	PLZL	2.57%
Sunny Friend Environmental Technology Co	8341.TW	2.36%
AIA Group Ltd	01299.HK	2.11%
PJSC Lukoil ADR	LKOD	1.97%

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

ARTZX has generated the following returns:

1-month return is -0.06%;
3-month return is 13.59%;
1-year return is 11.80%;
3-year return is 3.10%;
5-year return is 11.87%;
10-year return is 2.19%.

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

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

5. What is ARTZX dividend yield?

ARTZX yield is 1.64%.

6. What is ARTZX minimum initial investment amount?

ARTZX minimum initial investment amount is $1.00K.

7. What is ARTZX expense ratio?

ARTZX expense ratio is 1.35%. The expense ratio of a fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, and all other expenses.

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

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

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

1-year ax cost ratio is 0.7%;
3-year ax cost ratio is 0.44%.

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

3-year beta is 1.17;
5-year beta is 1.16;
10-year beta is 1.13.

11. What is ARTZX Sharpe ratio?

3-year Sharpe ratio is 0.12;
5-year Sharpe ratio is 0.29;
10-year Sharpe ratio is 0.18.

Analysis

12. What is Finny Score? buy or sell?

Finny Score is 50. Our quantitative analysis shows 3 reasons to buy and 3 reasons to sell it, resulting in the Finny Score of 50.

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

The following are ARTZX strengths from our perspective:

ARTZX 3-year return is 3.1%, which is higher than the 3-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI EM NR USD), 2.54%.
ARTZX 5-year return is 11.87%, which is higher than the 5-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI EM NR USD), 9.61%.
Good news: this fund does not have 12b1, front-end or back-end sales fees.

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

The following are ARTZX weaknesses from our perspective:

ARTZX net assets are $50.20 million. This fund is not a popular choice with retail investors.
ARTZX 10-year return is 2.19%, which is lower than the 10-year return of the benchmark index (MSCI EM NR USD), 3.31%.
ARTZX expense ratio is 1.35%, which is not negligible. Is the fund expensive to you, and does it align to your investment strategy?

In the ARTZX review, we covered ARTZX 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.