Name
As of 12/17/2021Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
Watchlist
Vitals
YTD Return
N/A
1 yr return
N/A
3 Yr Avg Return
N/A
5 Yr Avg Return
N/A
Net Assets
$238 M
Holdings in Top 10
35.0%
52 WEEK LOW AND HIGH
Expenses
OPERATING FEES
Expense Ratio 0.03%
SALES FEES
Front Load N/A
Deferred Load N/A
TRADING FEES
Turnover N/A
Redemption Fee N/A
Min Investment
Standard (Taxable)
N/A
IRA
N/A
Fund Classification
Fund Type
Exchange Traded Fund
Name
As of 12/17/2021Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
Watchlist
ROBDX - Profile
Distributions
- YTD Total Return N/A
- 3 Yr Annualized Total Return N/A
- 5 Yr Annualized Total Return N/A
- Capital Gain Distribution Frequency N/A
- Net Income Ratio N/A
- Dividend Yield 0.0%
- Dividend Distribution Frequency None
Fund Details
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Legal NameSUMMARY SECTION
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Fund Family NameINVESTMENT MANAGERS SERIES TRUST
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Inception DateSep 30, 2014
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Shares OutstandingN/A
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Share ClassN/A
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CurrencyUSD
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Domiciled CountryUS
Fund Description
Under normal market conditions, the Fund pursues its investment objective by investing primarily in closed-end registered investment companies (“closed-end funds” or “CEFs”) that invest primarily in municipal bonds. Municipal bonds are debt obligations issued by the states, possessions, or territories of the United States (including the District of Columbia) or a political subdivision, public instrumentality, agency, public authority or other governmental unit of such states, possessions, or territories (e.g., counties, cities, towns, villages, districts and authorities). In addition, when, in the opinion of Robinson Capital Management, LLC (“Robinson” or the “Sub-Advisor”), the Fund’s sub-advisor, the risk/reward profile for CEF securities appears unfavorable, or when CEF price valuations are not attractive, the Fund may, but is not required to, purchase shares of open-end registered investment companies (“Mutual Funds”) or Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETFs”) that invest primarily in municipal bonds.
The Fund expects a substantial portion of the income generated by the municipal bonds in which the CEFs, Mutual Funds and ETFs invest will be exempt from federal income taxes (“tax advantaged income”). A portion of the income generated by these municipal bonds, however, may be subject to the alternative minimum tax. As a result, the CEFs’, Mutual Funds’ and ETFs’ distributions to investors are expected to consist primarily of tax advantaged income, and a substantial portion of the income distributed to the Fund and Fund shareholders is also expected to consist primarily of such tax advantaged income. The CEFs, Mutual Funds and ETFs in which the Fund invests invest primarily in investment grade municipal bonds, with an average rating of at least Baa3 or higher by Moody’s or BBB- or higher by Standard & Poor’s or Fitch Ratings. Certain Mutual Funds and ETFs in which the Fund may choose to invest may have exposure to municipal bonds that are rated below investment grade (“junk bonds”). Typically, the Sub-Advisor expects to limit the Fund’s exposure to junk bonds held by the underlying CEFs, Mutual Funds, and ETFs to no more than 15% of the market value of the Fund’s portfolio. There is no minimum or maximum average maturity for the underlying municipal bond holdings in the CEFs, Mutual Funds and ETFs in which the Fund invests. To seek to hedge against interest rate risk and mitigate the Fund’s exposure to duration risk, the Sub-Advisor may use short positions and invest in short-term investments and derivatives such as options, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, and swaps. Primarily the Sub-Advisor anticipates using short positions on U.S. Treasury futures contracts (generally 2-year note, 5-year note, 10-year note and 30-year bond contracts) for those purposes. The Sub-Advisor may also use options on municipal bond ETFs, interest rate swaps, and the purchase of credit default swaps. Typically, the Sub-Advisor expects to limit these positions to no more than 10% of the market value of the Fund’s portfolio.
Whether analyzing CEFs, Mutual Funds or ETFs, the Sub-Advisor looks through to the underlying holdings of the funds. Holdings are analyzed across a variety of risk and return metrics including interest rate risk, call risk, credit quality, yield to maturity and yield to worst, to ensure the holdings are consistent with the Fund’s policies.
For the CEFs, the Sub-Advisor’s portfolio construction process involves using proprietary real-time models to first analyze and rank CEFs to build expected return and risk profiles. The Sub-Advisor then uses value oriented analysis to weigh the costs and benefits of the CEFs, and quantify the CEFs’ exposure to various risks.
The Sub-Advisor seeks to select CEFs that trade at discounts to the true market values of the CEFs’ municipal bond holdings by identifying quantifiable (or “rational”) factors that could contribute to a deviation between a CEF’s market capitalization (i.e., the aggregate market price of its total outstanding shares) and the true market value of the municipal bonds that the CEF holds. Such factors include the CEFs’ historical performance, fund expenses, dividend distribution yield, unrealized capital gains, investor trading to harvest short term losses, cost and use of leverage, liquidity, and governance. The Sub-Advisor’s proprietary valuation model seeks to quantify each of these factors and adds them to (or if the factors have a negative impact, subtracts them from) a CEF’s underlying market value. The resulting valuation is what the Sub-Advisor considers the fair market value for the CEF. The calculated fair market value per fund share is then compared to the actual price at which the CEF’s shares are currently trading. The Sub-Advisor believes that any difference can be attributed to “irrational” explanations. If the Sub-Advisor’s determination of a CEF’s fair market value is greater than the CEF’s actual market price, the Sub-Advisor considers the difference to be the CEF’s discount. Conversely, if the Sub-Advisor’s determination of a CEF’s fair market value is lower than the actual market price, the Sub-Advisor considers the difference to be the CEF’s premium.
The Sub-Advisor then analyzes the data according to its own proprietary model to determine a rating of the discount or premium. The analysis includes how under/overvalued a CEF is relative to its history, how under/overvalued a CEF is relative to other CEFs in the same asset class, how under/overvalued the asset class is relative to its history, and how under/overvalued the asset class is to other asset classes.
The Sub-Advisor may utilize a number of trading techniques to seek to unlock its estimate of the value of the premiums/discounts in the CEFs that invest in municipal bonds. This may lead to active and frequent trading of the Fund’s securities. The Sub-Advisor’s techniques include rotating Fund portfolio holdings to the CEFs the Sub-Advisor believes are the most undervalued, short selling those CEFs that the Sub-Advisor believes are the most overvalued, opportunistic trading due to temporary price dislocations, participating in tender offers of CEF shares, arbitrage opportunities for CEF mergers, buying a CEF that the Sub-Advisor believes is undervalued and pairing it with a short position in another CEF, and tax-related rebalancing trades. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading.
ROBDX - Performance
Return Ranking - Trailing
Period | ROBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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YTD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1 Yr | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
3 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
5 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
* Annualized
Return Ranking - Calendar
Period | ROBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2019 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Total Return Ranking - Trailing
Period | ROBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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YTD | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1 Yr | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
3 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
5 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10 Yr | N/A* | N/A | N/A | N/A |
* Annualized
Total Return Ranking - Calendar
Period | ROBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2019 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
NAV & Total Return History
ROBDX - Holdings
Concentration Analysis
ROBDX | Category Low | Category High | ROBDX % Rank | |
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Net Assets | 238 M | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of Holdings | 67 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Net Assets in Top 10 | 58.9 M | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Weighting of Top 10 | 34.98% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Top 10 Holdings
- Western Asset Managed Municipa 4.45%
- Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Cred 4.18%
- BlackRock Municipal Income Tru 3.92%
- Nuveen Quality Municipal Incom 3.82%
- BlackRock MuniVest Fund Inc 3.75%
- Eaton Vance Municipal Income T 3.43%
- BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fu 3.07%
- BlackRock Municipal Income Tru 2.97%
- Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Munici 2.91%
- BlackRock MuniAssets Fund Inc 2.47%
Asset Allocation
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | ROBDX % Rank | |
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Cash | 5.21% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Other | 0.53% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Stocks | 0.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Preferred Stocks | 0.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Convertible Bonds | 0.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Bonds | 0.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
ROBDX - Expenses
Operational Fees
ROBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Expense Ratio | 0.03% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Management Fee | 0.01% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
12b-1 Fee | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Administrative Fee | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Sales Fees
ROBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Front Load | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Deferred Load | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Trading Fees
ROBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Max Redemption Fee | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Related Fees
Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.
ROBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
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Turnover | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
ROBDX - Distributions
Dividend Yield Analysis
ROBDX | Category Low | Category High | ROBDX % Rank | |
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Dividend Yield | 0.00% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Dividend Distribution Analysis
ROBDX | Category Low | Category High | Category Mod | |
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Dividend Distribution Frequency | None |
Net Income Ratio Analysis
ROBDX | Category Low | Category High | ROBDX % Rank | |
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Net Income Ratio | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Capital Gain Distribution Analysis
ROBDX | Category Low | Category High | Capital Mode | |
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Capital Gain Distribution Frequency |